PT113.S3.Q3

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PrepTest 113 - Section 3 - Question 3

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Announcement for a television program: Are female physicians more sensitive than male physicians to the needs of women patients. ██ ███ ███ ███████ █████ ███ ██████████ ██ ████ █████ ████ █████████ ████ ██ █████████

Summarize Argument

The announcement claims that surveying female and male physicians can answer a question about how sensitive each is to the needs of their patients.

Identify and Describe Flaw

This reasoning is flawed because the source for the TV show’s potential claim is biased. If you ask a physician how sensitive they are to the needs of their patients, they will probably answer favorably about themselves. However, if you ask women patients, they are more likely to answer without bias. Thus, if the television program proceeds to base its claim about the sensitivity of physicians on the reports of physicians themselves, its conclusion will likely not be very accurate.

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Which one of the following, ██ █████ ██████████ █ ████ ██ ███ ████ ███ ███ ████████

Physicians are in ███████ █████████ ██ ████████ ███ █████████ █████ ██ █████ ███████████

Our argument never says that the physicians being interviewed will describe other physicians' treatment style. Additionally, treatment style is not necessarily analogous to sensitivity toward patients, so this would not answer the question at hand.

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The proportion of female doctors compared to male doctors does not change how sensitive each gender is to their patients. Thus, this answer choice does not address the TV show’s question.

Those who are ████ ████ ██ ███████ ███████ ██ ███ ████████ ███ █████████ ██████ ████ ███████████

This addresses the biased source by highlighting which source would be appropriate for the TV show to use in answering its question. Because doctors are more likely to answer favorably about themselves, the TV show should consult someone less biased, such as patients.

Since medical research ██ █████ █████████ ██ ████ ███ ███ ███████ ███ █████ ██████████ ██ █████ ██ █████████

Irrelevant. This stimulus deals with doctor-patient interactions, not with medical research. Therefore, this answer choice does not address the argument, much less the flaw.

Women as patients ███ ███ █████████ ██ ████ █ ████ ██████ ████ ██ ████████ █████ ████ ███ ██████ ████ ████ ████ ██████████ ███ ███████ █████████████

Even if this were true, it has nothing to do with how sensitive a doctor is to a patient’s needs. Therefore, it does not address the argument or its flaw.

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97% of people who answer get this correct

This is a low-difficulty question.

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Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right

25% 120

120

75% 129

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