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07 Apr 2020, 06:00
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Carl: Researchers who perform operations on animals for experimental purposes are legally required to complete detailed pain protocols indicating whether the animals will be at risk of pain and, if so, what step will be taken to minimize or alleviate it. Yet when human beings undergo operations, such protocols are never required. If lawmakers were as concerned about human beings as they seem to be about animals, there would be pain protocols for human beings.
Debbie: But consider this: a person for whom a doctor wants to schedule surgery can simply be told what pain to expect and can then decide whether or not to undergo the operation. So you see, pain protocols are unnecessary for human beings.
Which one of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument made by Debbie in response to Carl’s argument?
(A) Not all operations that are performed on human beings are painful.
(B) Some experimentation that is now done in animals need not be done at all.
(C) Preparing pain protocols is not a time-consuming or costly procedure.
(D) Some surgical operations performed on infants are painful.
(E) Unalleviated pain after an operation tends to delay the healing process.
Debbie: But consider this: a person for whom a doctor wants to schedule surgery can simply be told what pain to expect and can then decide whether or not to undergo the operation. So you see, pain protocols are unnecessary for human beings.
Which one of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument made by Debbie in response to Carl’s argument?
(A) Not all operations that are performed on human beings are painful.
(B) Some experimentation that is now done in animals need not be done at all.
(C) Preparing pain protocols is not a time-consuming or costly procedure.
(D) Some surgical operations performed on infants are painful.
(E) Unalleviated pain after an operation tends to delay the healing process.
24 Apr 2020, 04:39
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If we can show that in any case humans can not be told about the pain, then that choice is our answer.
D is doing the same. Rest all are out of scope.
D is doing the same. Rest all are out of scope.
28 Jul 2020, 06:37
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Hello, GMAT0010. Consider the argument by Debbie. So you see is a conclusion marker, meaning that the previous sentence provides the premise for that conclusion. If you straighten out the argument, you get the following:
Debbie: Pain protocols are unnecessary for human beings because a person... can simply be told what pain to expect and can then decide whether or not to undergo the operation.
To weaken her argument, we need to show that pain protocols may, in fact, be necessary, and we need to overturn the reasoning Debbie has used to back up her own conclusion. If a patient could not simply be told what pain to expect and so forth, then the argument falls apart.
Choice (D), although it does include an often incorrect element in some, delivers to the necessary end. Since an infant cannot be told what level of pain to expect and decide for itself whether to undergo surgery, perhaps pain protocols should not be deemed unnecessary. Meanwhile, choice (E) shifts the focus to the healing process, an unrelated concern to the argument presented. That is, pain protocols are put in place to indicate whether subjects about to undergo an operation will be at risk of pain and, if so, what step will be taken to minimize or alleviate it. What happens after surgery is not mentioned, so the correct answer should not take the post-op phase into consideration.
I hope that helps. Good luck with your studies.
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