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PT129.S2.Q11

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PrepTest 129 - Section 2 - Question 11

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Pat: E-mail fosters anonymity, which removes barriers to self-revelation. ████ ████████ █ ██████ ██ ████████ ████ █████████ ████ █████ █████████ ████ █████ ██ ██████ ████████ ███████ ██ ███████

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Speaker 1 Summary

Pat argues towards the unstated conclusion that e-mail promotes intimacy with strangers. How so? E-mail allows anonymity. Anonymity removes barriers to self-revelation, and removing those barriers promotes intimacy. Chaining that together, we can infer that e-mail promotes intimacy.

Speaker 2 Summary

Amar claims that e-mail does not promote intimacy (although this conclusion is also unstated). In support, Amar says that a real social bond is necessary for intimacy, and in turn, direct personal contact is necessary for real social bonds. Since e-mail doesn’t include direct personal contact, we can infer that e-mail cannot foster intimacy.

Objective

We want to find a point of disagreement. Pat and Amar disagree about whether e-mail can lead to intimacy with strangers.

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The dialogue most strongly supports ███ █████ ████ ███ ███ ████ ████████ ████ ████ █████ █████ ███████

barriers to self-revelation ██████ ███ ███████ ██████ ██ ████████

Neither speaker makes this claim. Pat is the only speaker who talks about barriers to self-revelation, but it’s just to say that removing those barriers speeds up intimacy. Amar never discusses these barriers at all.

E-mail can increase ████████ ███████ ███████

Neither speaker talks about the effect of e-mail on intimacy between established friends. The conversation is just about whether e-mail can build intimacy between strangers.

intimacy between those ███ ███████████ ████ ████ █████ ██████ ██ ██████ ██ ████████

Pat agrees with this, but Amar disagrees: this is the point of disagreement. Pat’s argument supports the conclusion that e-mail promotes intimacy between strangers, but Amar’s implied conclusion is that email cannot create intimacy due to a lack of direct personal contact.

real social bonds ██████ ████ ██ ████████

Neither speaker makes this claim. Amar is the only speaker who talks about real social bonds, but the claim Amar makes is that real social bonds are necessary for intimacy, not that they’re sufficient.

the use of ██████ ███████ ████████ ██ ███████████████

Pat agrees with this, but Amar doesn’t state an opinion. Amar doesn’t discuss barriers to self-revelation at all, so cannot be said to agree or disagree with this claim.

Difficulty

Question

89% of people who answer get this correct

This is a slightly challenging question.

CURVE

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

25% 125

138

75% 151

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

Conditional reasoning

Stimuli that feature conditional and set logic (e.g. A → B, A is true, therefore B is true).

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