PT136.S4.Q4

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PrepTest 136 - Section 4 - Question 4

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Company spokesperson: . █████████ ████████ ████████ ██████ ████ ███ ██████████ █ █████ ██████ ████ ███ ██████ ████████ ████████████ ██ ███████████ ████████ ████ ██████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ██████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ██ ███ ████████ ██ ██████████ █ ██████ ███ ███ █████████ ████ ███ █████████ ████████████

Summarize Argument

The company spokesperson concludes that the attack by Household Products magazine that Filterator X water filters do not remove significant amounts of chemical contaminants is inaccurate. He supports this by appealing to the experience of millions of people who own FIlterator X filters and are satisfied with their performance.

Notable Assumptions

The company spokesperson assumes that the fact that millions of customers are satisfied with their Filterator X filters means that the filters must be removing significant amounts of chemical contaminants from the water. This means that he also assumes that customers are able to tell whether their filters are removing chemical contaminants.

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Which one of the following, ██ █████ ████ █████████ ██████████ ███ ███████ ██████████████ █████████

Household Products did ███ ████████ ███████ ███ ██████████ █ █████ ██████ █████████████ ████████ ███ █████ ██ ████████ ██████

This doesn’t weaken the argument because it doesn’t deal with the question of whether or not the filters actually remove chemical contaminants from water. Customers may be satisfied because of improved taste, but this doesn’t tell us anything about the chemical contaminants.

Most Filterator X ██████ ████ ██ ███ ██ █████████ ███ ███████████ ███ ███████ ███████ ████████ ████████████ ████ ██████

This weakens the argument by showing that the company spokesperson’s assumption is false. Just because customers are satisfied doesn’t mean that the filters are removing chemical contaminants.

People whose household █████ ████████ ████████ ████████████ ███ ████ ██████ ████ █████ ██████ ██ ███ █ ██████████ █ █████ ███████

The fact that Filterator X customers have very contaminated water doesn’t change the attack that the filters aren’t effectively removing those chemical contaminants. So this doesn’t weaken the spokesperson’s conclusion that the attack is unfounded.

Very few people ███ ███ █ ██████████ █ ████ █████████ ████████ ██ █ ██████████ ██████

Whether or not Filterator X customers read Household Products is irrelevant to the argument and doesn’t weaken the spokesperson’s conclusion that the magazine’s attack on the filters is false.

Household Products' evaluations ██ ██████████ █ █████ ███████ ████ ████ ████████████ █████████

This doesn’t weaken the argument because it doesn’t address the assumption that customer satisfaction accurately reflects the filters’ effectiveness.

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97% of people who answer get this correct

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130

75% 139

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Fact v. belief v. knowledge

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153

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