PT155.S2.Q11

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Psychologist: Specialists naturally tend to view their own specialties as fundamentally important. ██ ███ █████████ █████ █████████ ██ █████ █████████ ████ ███████████ █████ ████ ███████████ ██████ ███ █████████████ ███████ ██ ██ ███████████ ██████████ ████ ██ █████ ███████████ ███████████ ███ ███████████ ███ ████████ ████ ██████████ █████ █████ ██ █████ ███ ███████████

Summarize Argument

The author concludes that we should be skeptical when geneticists say that personality traits that aren’t thought to be genetically determined actually are genetically determined. The author supports this conclusion with the subsidiary conclusion that the geneticists are probably amplifying their own importance when they make such a claim. This sub-conclusion is supported by the fact that specialists tend to see their own specialties as important.

Identify and Describe Flaw

The author attacks the motivation of the geneticists rather than the substance of their claim. The motivation of the geneticists in making their claim that certain traits are genetically determined has no bearing on the truth of that claim.

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disputes a claim ██ ███ █████ ██ █ ████████ ██████ ███ ██████ ███ █████ ██████ ████ ██ █████████ ███ ████████ ████████ ██ ███ █████
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