A psychiatrist argued that there is no such thing as a multi

Here is my view. I chose A

A psychiatrist argued that there is no such thing as a multiple personality disorder on the grounds that in all her years of clinical practice, she had never encountered one case of this type.

A.Anton concluded that colds are seldom fatal on the grounds that in all his years of clinical practice, he never had a patient who died of a cold.

E.Jerod had never spotted a deer in his area and (he)concluded from this that there are no deer in the area.

A seems much better than E.If I was wrong,please explain,thanks in advance.

I am not sure of the answer either. if it were A, the wording would have been more direct "Anton concluded that colds are not fatal because he never had a patient..." instead it uses the word seldom which means "not often". that means Anton Anton does not exclude a minor possibility of fatality. whereas our psychiatrist completely excludes any possibility of multiple personality disorder. hence E for me.

I see,hem...see what other guys opinion

A psychiatrist argued that there is no such thing as a multiple personality disorder on the grounds that in all her years of clinical practice, she had never encountered one case of this type.

Which one of the following most closely parallels the questionable reasoning cited above?

A. Anton concluded that colds are seldom fatal on the grounds that in all his years of clinical practice, he never had a patient who died of a cold.
B. Lyla said that no one in the area has seen a groundhog and so there are probably no groundhogs in the area.
C. Sauda argued that because therapy rarely had an effect on her patient's type of disorder, therapy was not warranted.
D. Thomas argued that because Natasha has driven her car to work every day since she bought it, she would probably continue to drive her car to work
E. Jerod had never spotted a deer in his area and concluded from this that there are no deer in the area.

In the premise the psychiatrist says MPD never occurs, cause she never encountered.
The psychiatrist is very confident and she never used probability. Only option E maintains this absoluteness, rest all options still consider a chance of non-occurrence.

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