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PT120.S3.Q9

SECTION 1 · lr

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PrepTest 120 - Section 3 - Question 9

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Laird: Pure research provides us with new technologies that contribute to saving lives. ████ ████ ██████████ ████ █████ ████████ ██ ███ ████ ██ █████████ ███ █████████ ███ █████████ ████ ██████████ ██████

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Speaker 1 Summary

Laird doesn’t make an argument, instead just stating the claim that pure research provides more value through expanding our knowledge than it does by helping to save lives.

Speaker 2 Summary

Kim’s argument supports the unstated conclusion that the most important contribution of pure research is in fact its medical applications. This is supported by the principle that saving lives is the most important goal, and the statement that pure research has helped to improve medicine (thereby presumably saving lives).

Objective

We’re looking for a point of disagreement. Laird and Kim disagree about whether medical advancements are the most valuable result of pure research.

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Laird and Kim disagree on ███████ ████ ████████

derives its significance ██ ████ ████ ███ █████████ ███ ████████████

Both speakers agree with this. Laird acknowledges that new technologies are an important result of pure research, just not the most important result. Kim places even more importance on the development of medical technology.

expands the boundaries ██ ███ █████████ ██ ████████

Both speakers almost certainly agree with this. Both Laird and Kim discuss the role of pure research in advancing medicine, which strongly implies that pure research has improved our knowledge of medicine.

should have the ██████ ██ █████ █████ ██ ██ █████████ ████

Kim agrees with this, but Laird never disagrees. Laird explicitly acknowledges the importance of pure research helping to save lives—the issue is just whether that’s the most important goal.

has its most ████████ ████████████ ██ ███████ ████████████

Laird disagrees with this but Kim agrees, so this is the point at issue. Laird thinks that the most valuable achievements of pure research are in expanding our knowledge and providing new ideas, whereas Kim states that saving lives through medical advancement is more important.

has any value █████ ████ ███ ████ ██ █████████ ███ ████████████ ██ ████ █████

Laird agrees with this, but Kim never disagrees. Kim’s argument is just that saving lives is the most important result of pure research, not that pure research has no other value.

Difficulty

Question

75% of people who answer get this correct

This is a moderately difficult question.

CURVE

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

25% 142

152

75% 161

Analysis

Question Stem Tags

Point at issue: disagree

Stems that ask us to identify a statement to which one speaker in the stimulus would say "Yes" and the other would say "No"

Stimulus Tags

Value judgment

Stimuli in which a jump from descriptive claims (i.e. "is" claims) to normative claims (i.e. "ought" claims) informs our evaluation of the answer choices.

Answer Popularity

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157

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165

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157

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