PT133.S3.Q11

PrepTest 133 - Section 3 - Question 11

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Summary

The author concludes that people who rely on the web when tring to diagnose their medical conditions are likely to do themselves more harm than good.

Why?

Because those people can’t distinguish between what’s scientifically valid and scientifically invalid.

Notable Assumptions

Notice that the idea of “doing themselves more harm than good” is a new concept that isn’t mentioned in the premise. So we know the author must assume something about what leads to someone doing themselves more harm than good.

To go further, we can anticipate a more specific connection taking the author from the premise to the conclusion. The author thinks that people who cannot discriminate between scientifically valid information and scientifically invalid information are likely to do themselves more harm than good. Or, in other words, in order to avoid being more likely to do more harm than good when relying on the web to diagnose oneself, one must be able to distinguish between scientifically valid and invalid information.

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11.

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a

People who browse ███ ███ ███ ███████ ███████████ █████████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ███████ ██ ████████ █████ ███████ ███████████

b

People who attempt ██ ████████ █████ ███████ ██████████ ███ ██████ ██ ██ ██████████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ██████ ████ ████ ███████████ ██ ██████████████ █████ ████████████

c

People who have ██████████ ███████ █████████ ██ ████████████ ███████ ██████████████ █████ ███████████ ███ ████████ ████ ██ ██████████ ██ ████ ██ ████ ████ ██ ███ ███ ████ ██████████ ██ ████████ █████ ███████ ███████████

d

Many people who ██████ ███ ███ ██████ ████ ███████████ ██ ███ ██████████████ █████ ██████ ██ ██ ███████ ████████

e

People attempting to ████████ █████ ███████ ██████████ ████ ██ ██████████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ██ ████ ████ ██ ████████ ███████ ██ ██████████████ █████ ████████████

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