PT138.S4.Q12

PrepTest 138 - Section 4 - Question 12

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The government has recently adopted a policy of publishing airline statistics, including statistics about each airline's number of near collisions and its fines for safety violations. ████████ ████ ██████████ ████████ ██████████ ███ ████████████ ████ ██ ██████ ███ ██████ ████ ████████ █████ ███████ ███████ ███████ ████████ ████ ██ ████ ████ ██████ ██ ████ ████████ ███████ ██ ████ ███████████ ████ ██ ████ █████████ ██ ███ ███████

Summarize Argument: Counter-Position

The author concludes that the government’s proposal to publish reports of airline statistics will actually make the public less informed about airline safety because the reports will likely be incomplete.

Identify and Describe Flaw

This argument is flawed because it fails to consider the fact that reports can still inform the public about airline safety even if they’re incomplete. While it’s fair to assume that an incomplete report would be less informative than a complete one, it’s likely better than nothing. Even if the reports are missing some information, there’s no reason to believe that they’d make the public less informed than if this kind of information weren’t made public at all.

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12.

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a

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b

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c

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d

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e

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