Self-study
Researchers studying athletes found that those who played mainly for the love of their sport actually had sharper vision during athletic competitions than those whose main goal was winning a trophy or championship. ███ ██████ ██ ███ █████ █████ ██ ████████ ███ ███████ ███████ ███ █████████████ █████████ ███ █████ ██████ ██████ ██ ████████ ██ █████████ █████████ ██ █ ███████ ██████ ██ █████ █████ █████████ ██ ███████ ██ ███ ████████ ███████
Summary
Two types of athletes, ones who play mainly for the love of the sport and ones who play mainly to win. The love-of-sport athletes had sharper vision. Why? Sharp vision requires concentration and those whose attention is focused on the activity itself typically have greater concentration.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
The love-of-sport athletes have greater attention focused on the activity itself and hence greater concentration.
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a
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This answer is unsupported. Stimulus says that the love-of-sport athletes play
b
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This answer is unsupported. Confuses a relative comparison for an absolute. We know that the play-to-win athletes have less concentration than the love-of-sport athletes. We cannot infer that the play-to-win athletes possess so little concentration that their vision is inadequate.
c
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This answer is strongly supported. We know the love-of-sport athletes have sharper vision and we know what causes sharper vision: greater concentration on the sport itself. Hence, we can infer that the love-of-sport athletes had concentration on the sport itself.
d
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This answer is unsupported. Stimulus doesn't talk about how many things an athlete can concentrate on at a time. In fact, it's reasonable to interpret concentrating
e
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This answer is unsupported. Stimulus doesn't talk about overall performance. It only talks about eyesight, which is presumably one factor in overall performance.