PT108.S3.Q26

PrepTest 108 - Section 3 - Question 26

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Anthropologist: After mapping the complete dominance hierarchy for a troupe of vervet monkeys by examining their pairwise interaction, we successfully predicted more complex forms of their group behavior by assuming that each monkey had knowledge of the complete hierarchy. █████ ███ ██████████ ███ ██ █████████ ██ ███████ ████ ███ ██████████ ██ ████ ██ █████ ██ ███ ██ ████ █████

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Speaker 1 Summary

The anthropologist claims that an assumption about vervet monkeys’ knowledge of the hierarchy within their troupe has been proven true. How so? Because this assumption led to accurate predictions of the monkeys’ group behavior.

Speaker 2 Summary

The primatologist believes that the anthropologist’s predictions do not provide sufficient support to conclude that the anthropologist’s assumption is true. This is supported by an example: assuming that an ATM wants to help customers can lead to accurate predictions of the ATM’s outputs, but that doesn’t mean the ATM actually has desires.

Objective

We need to find a point of disagreement. The key disagreement is about whether the anthropologist’s predictions are sufficient support for the conclusion that the assumption about monkey knowledge is true.

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26.

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a

whether the anthropologist ████████████ █████████ ███ ████████ ██ ██████████ ███████ ██ ███ ██ ███ ███ ██ ███ ████████ █████████ █████████

b

whether the output ██ █ ████ ████ ███████ ███ ██ ██████████ █████████ ██ ███ █████ ██ █████████ ██ ███ ████████ ████ ██ ██ ██ █████████

c

whether vervet monkeys ███ ████ █████████ ██ ███ ████████ █████████ ██ █████████ █████████ ████ ██████ ██████ █████ ███ ██████

d

whether the fact ████ ███ ████████████████ ██████████ ███ ██ ████ ██████████ ███████████ ████████ ██████████ ███████ ███ ███ █████ ████ ███ ██████ ███████ ███ █████████ ██ █████ █████████ █████████

e

whether the behavior █████████ ██ ██████ ███████ ██ ████████████ ██████████ ███ ██ ████ ██ ███ █████ ███ █ ██████████████ ██████████ ███ ██████ ███████

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