x97agarwal wrote:
Physician: The patient is suffering either from disease X or else from disease Y, but there is no available test for distinguishing X from Y. Therefore, since there is an effective treatment for Y but no treatment for X, we must act on the assumption that the patient has a case of Y.
The physician’s reasoning could be based on which one of the following principles?
(A) In treating a patient who has one or the other of two diseases, it is more important to treat the diseases than to determine which of the two diseases the patient has.
(B) If circumstances beyond a decision maker’s control will affect the outcome of the decision maker’s actions, the decision maker must assume that circumstances are unfavorable.
(C) When the soundness of a strategy depends on the truth of a certain assumption, the first step in putting the strategy into effect must be to test the truth of this assumption.
(D) When success is possible only if a circumstance beyond one’s control is favorable, then one’s strategy must be based on the assumption that this circumstance is in fact favorable.
(E) When only one strategy carries the possibility of success, circumstances must as much as possible be changed to fit this strategy.
Please explain your approach:
-We cannot determine between X and Y
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we have treatment for Y so we assume a person has disease Y(A) In treating a patient who has one or the other of two diseases,
it is more important to treat the diseases than to determine which of the two diseases the patient has.>>>No we treat the patient for Y because we assume he is sufering from Y
(B) If circumstances beyond a decision maker’s control will affect the outcome of the decision maker’s actions,
the decision maker must assume that circumstances are unfavorable.>>>No we treat the patient for Y because we assume he is sufering from Y.We are hoping he is suffering from Y. So Y is a fovorable circumstance.
(C) When the soundness of a strategy depends on the truth of a certain assumption,
the first step in putting the strategy into effect must be to test the truth of this assumption.>>>No.We dont have the liberty to make a choice. We dont have a choice because we dont have a cure for X.
(D) When success is possible only if a circumstance beyond one’s control is favorable,
then one’s strategy must be based on the assumption that this circumstance is in fact favorable.>>>FITS.we have treatment for Y so we assume a person has disease Y
(E) When only one strategy carries the possibility of success, circumstances must as much as possible be changed to fit this strategy.
>>>No . We are not changing the circumstances.
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