Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Psychologist: In an experiment, volunteers were asked to solve

Dear MartyMurray

Choice B is an assumption whose negation will shatter the author's conclusion. Whereas negation of choice E, will weaken the conclusion but not necessarily break it as we don't know whether the 2nd study was properly supervised/conducted compared to the 1st, etc.

So based on this analysis, I think choice B should be the necessarily required strengthener, whereas choice E is just another strengthener. Hence, I chose B.

What do you think about this question? Also, as you have mentioned in your reasoning analysis that the author might've assumed the negation of choice B is an unrealistic scenario. So is this kind of trap an often occurring trait in the very high-difficulty questions?

Thanks in advance!

Statistics : Posted by 8Harshitsharma • on 18 Dec 2023, 03:43 • Replies 7 • Views 2543

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