PT118.S3.Q1

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PrepTest 118 - Section 3 - Question 1

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Yuriko: Our city's campaign to persuade parents to have their children vaccinated ought to be imitated by your city. ██ ███ ██ ██████ █████ ███ █████████ ██ ███████████ ███████████ ███ █████████ ████████████ ██ ███ ████ ████ █████████ ██ ██ ████████

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Summarize Argument: Counter-Position

Susan implicitly concludes that Yuriko’s argument does not support the conclusion that her city’s campaign to encourage child vaccination should be imitated by Susan’s city. Susan points out that the increase in vaccination in Yuriko’s city mostly preceded the start of the campaign, and more directly followed the opening of free health clinics. This implies that the clinics really caused the increase.

Describe Method of Reasoning

Susan counters Yuriko’s support for the campaign by introducing additional evidence to undermine Yuriko’s assumptions about cause and effect. With evidence about the timing of the rise in vaccination relative to the start of the campaign and the clinics opening, Susan points out a more plausible alternative cause for the rise in vaccination.

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In responding to Yuriko, Susan ████ █████ ███ ██ ███ ██████████

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Susan doesn’t make any assertions about whether or not her city wants to increase the vaccination rate.

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Susan cites the fact that free clinics opened directly before the major rise in vaccination rate, whereas the campaign only started after that rise. This weakens the evidence for Yuriko’s claim that the increase resulted from the campaign.

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Susan doesn’t concede that the campaign was effective at all in her argument, for any amount of time.

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Susan doesn’t argue that any campaign for increased vaccination is unnecessary, only that the particular campaign that Yuriko argues Susan’s city should imitate may not be effective.

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Susan doesn’t make any claims against the effectiveness of vaccination campaigns in general, only the specific campaign that Yuriko argues Susan’s city should imitate.

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