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PT151.S3.Q3

SECTION 1 · rc

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PrepTest 151 - Section 3 - Question 3

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Dario: Conclusion The government should continue to grant patents for all new drug compounds. ███████ ███████ ██████████ ██ █████████ ██████████████ █████████ ███ ███████████ ███ ██████ ████████ ██████ ██ ███████ ███ ██████

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Speaker 1 Summary

Dario says that patents should be granted for all new drugs. Why? Because patents promote innovation. Dario supports this major premise by explaining that patents reward pharmaceutical companies for spending money on researching new drugs.

Speaker 2 Summary

Cynthia thinks that patents should only be granted for “truly innovative” new drugs, not absolutely all new drugs. Cynthia also supports this proposal by saying it will promote innovation. So how does limiting patents help innovation? Because it would deter companies from just developing variations on existing drugs, which is cheaper than coming up with truly new drugs.

Objective

We’re looking for a point of disagreement. Dario and Cynthia disagree about whether absolutely all new drug developments should be rewarded with patents.

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Dario and Cynthia disagree over ███████

pharmaceutical companies should ██ ████████ ███ ████████ ██████████

Both Dario and Cynthia agree with this. Both speakers want to encourage innovation by offering pharmaceutical companies rewards, they just disagree on what counts as innovation.

patents should be ███████ ███ ███ ████ █████████

Dario agrees with this, but Cynthia disagrees: here’s the point of disagreement. This claim is Dario’s main conclusion. Cynthia’s conclusion, however, is that only certain drug compounds should get patents.

developing truly innovative █████ ██ ██████

Both speakers agree that this is true. Dario talks about the “costly” research needed to develop any new drugs, and Cynthia says that varying existing drugs is “much less expensive” than innovative drugs (meaning innovation is much more expensive).

pharmaceutical companies have ██ █████████ ██ ██████ █████ ████████ ██ ████████ █████

Cynthia agrees with this, but Dario doesn’t express an opinion about minor variants specifically. Dario groups all sorts of new drugs together, and never distinguishes between minor variants and totally new drugs.

drug patents can ███████ ██████████

Both speakers agree with this claim. Both Dario and Cynthia think that awarding patents can promote innovation, they just disagree about when precisely the decision to award patents should be made.

Difficulty

Question

95% of people who answer get this correct

This is a low-difficulty question.

CURVE

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

25% 121

130

75% 140

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

Value judgment

Stimuli in which a jump from descriptive claims (i.e. "is" claims) to normative claims (i.e. "ought" claims) informs our evaluation of the answer choices.

Answer Popularity

Popularity Avg. score

145

95%

160

145

154

153

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