PT122.S4.Q4

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PrepTest 122 - Section 4 - Question 4

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Essayist: Support Politicians deserve protection from a prying press. ██ ███ █████ ███ ██ ███ ███████ ████ ██████ ██████ ███ █████ ██ ███ ███████████ ████████████ ███ ███████ █████████ █████ ██ ████████████ ███████ █████ █████████ ████████ ██████ ████ ████████ █ ██████ ██ ████████ ███ █████ █████████ ████ █████████ ████ ███ ████ █████ █████ ███████ ███ ██████ ███ ███████████████ ███████████ █████ ██ ██████ █████████ ██ ██ ████ ██ ███ █ ████ ██ ████ ███████ ███████████

Summarize Argument

The essayist concludes that the press should stop writing about politicians’ private lives. This is for three reasons: no one wants their private lives to be published, the threat of an exposed private life makes politics as a career unattractive, and the practice makes reporters behave poorly. These reasons support the sub-conclusion that politicians deserve protection from intrusive media.

Notable Assumptions

The essayist assumes that there are no benefits to an intrusive press that would be lost if this intrusiveness was stopped—maybe the threat of an intrusive press weeds out candidates who aren’t serious about the job. Furthermore, the essayist assumes that a politician’s personal life can be separated from his professional life enough to report on the latter without discussing the former.

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Each of the following, if █████ ███████████ ███ ██████████ ████████ ███████

The press is █████████ ██████████ ████ ██ ███████ ██ ████████ ███████ ██████

This strengthens the argument by offering an additional premise: that the press publishes false information about candidates’ personal lives. This strengthens the conclusion that the practice of publishing this kind of news should be stopped.

Reporting on politicians' ███████ █████ █████████ ██████ ████ ████ █████████ ██████ ██ █ █████████

This strengthens the argument by offering an additional premise: not only is this type of publishing harmful to politicians, it is also harmful to voters and presumably, democracy.

Much writing on ████████████ ███████ █████ ████████ ██ ██████ ██████████ ██ ████████ ███████████

This strengthens the argument by introducing the idea that this form of news is weaponized by opposing candidates for political purposes. This strengthens the conclusion that it should be stopped.

In recent elections, ███ ████ █████ ███████████ ████ ███████ ██ ███ ███ ████████ ██████ ███████ ██ ███ █████████████ ██ █████ █████████

This strengthens the argument. It reinforces the essayist’s premise that talented people are dissuaded from running for politics because of the threat the media poses to their private lives.

Politicians' personality flaws █████ ██████████ ██████ █████ ███████████ ██ ███ ████

This weakens the argument. It attacks the essayist’s assumption that the private lives of politicians—which include their character flaws—do not affect, and are separable from, their professional lives.

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94% of people who answer get this correct

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CURVE

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25% 124

134

75% 145

Analysis

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