Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Brooks: I'm unhappy in my job, but I don't know whether I can accept

 
Brooks: I'm unhappy in my job, but I don't know whether I can accept the risks involved in quitting my job.

Morgenstern: The only risk in quitting is that of not finding another job. If you don't find one, you're going to be pretty unhappy. But you're already unhappy, so you might as well just quit.

Morgenstern's argument is flawed in that it

(A) fails to take into account that unhappiness can vary in intensity or significance - CORRECT. The two unhappiness that B and M mention are different when considered in terms of degree/intensity.

(B) relies on an assumption that is tantamount to assuming that the conclusion istrue - WRONG. No conclusion that B reaches. 

(C) mischaracterizes what Brooks says - WRONG. The definition of unhappiness remain unchanged. 

(D) conflates two different types ofrisk - WRONG. Got stuck in this one but A seems better.

(E) reaches ageneralization on the basis of a single case - WRONG. There is no generalization as such but M just confuses the situation
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Statistics : Posted by unraveled • on 12 Aug 2020, 16:45 • Replies 6 • Views 3274

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