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The reporter concludes that autistic children can benefit from treatment earlier in life, because there’s a new test that can diagnose earlier in life.

There are no glaring holes here. One thing to note, though, is that the reporter has included a fault in the test: “it also wrongly identified 2 children as autistic.”

Though there is nothing obvious, there are some general assumptions that we could pursue: that there’s a relationship between diagnosis and treatment, and that there’s a relationship between diagnosis and benefit.

Intention is different than accomplishment. The context already told us that this is a new test, and that its accuracy is unprecedented. It doesn’t matter if other tests have tried to do it before this.

This is necessary for the argument. If it isn’t true, then our new test (that sometimes gives a false positive) cannot be used to decide treatment. This negation severs the connection between diagnosis and treatment, like we predicted.

it isn’t necessary for the test to be available for all children. As long as some autistic children benefit, the argument stands a chance.

The conclusion is about autistic children benefitting from the test. It isn’t about potential suffering of non-autistic children.

Phrased differently, (E) is essentially saying “We didn’t know this was possible!” This is not necessary for the argument.

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