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Columnist: There is considerable psychological research suggesting that children interested in competitive hobbies show more hostility than children interested in non-competitive hobbies do. However, the general conclusion of the psychological researchers that competitive hobbies encourage participants to be hostile does not hold. The children interested in competitive hobbies were likely more hostile to begin with than the children interested in non-competitive hobbies were.
Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion drawn by the psychological researchers?
A. The research studies deliberately excluded all children who were interested in both competitive and non-competitive hobbies.
B. The children interested in competitive hobbies, but not those interested in non-competitive ones, were always aware at the onset of the research that they were being tested for hostility.
C. The same research indicated that the children interested in competitive hobbies had great respect for team performance, whereas the children interested in non-competitive hobbies were most concerned with individual performance.
D. The children interested in competitive hobbies became more hostile during competitions and remained so long after, whereas there was no such increase in hostility among the children interested in non-competitive hobbies.
E. Throughout the world, more incidents of hostility occur at all-boys competitions than occur at all-girls competitions.
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Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion drawn by the psychological researchers?
A. The research studies deliberately excluded all children who were interested in both competitive and non-competitive hobbies.
B. The children interested in competitive hobbies, but not those interested in non-competitive ones, were always aware at the onset of the research that they were being tested for hostility.
C. The same research indicated that the children interested in competitive hobbies had great respect for team performance, whereas the children interested in non-competitive hobbies were most concerned with individual performance.
D. The children interested in competitive hobbies became more hostile during competitions and remained so long after, whereas there was no such increase in hostility among the children interested in non-competitive hobbies.
E. Throughout the world, more incidents of hostility occur at all-boys competitions than occur at all-girls competitions.
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Conclusion of researchers:
Competitive hobbies encourage hostility.
Columnist’s counterargument:
Kids who choose competitive hobbies were already more hostile before participating.
Prethinking:
To strengthen the researchers, we need evidence that hostility increases because of the competitive activity itself, not because naturally hostile kids select those hobbies.
A. Excluding children with both hobby types does not address causation.
B. This introduces possible testing bias against competitive-hobby children, so it weakens.
C. Different attitudes toward team vs. individual performance are irrelevant to hostility.
D. If children become more hostile during and after competitions, while non-competitive children do not, this directly supports that competition causes hostility.
E. Boys vs. girls comparison is irrelevant.
Answer: D
Competitive hobbies encourage hostility.
Columnist’s counterargument:
Kids who choose competitive hobbies were already more hostile before participating.
Prethinking:
To strengthen the researchers, we need evidence that hostility increases because of the competitive activity itself, not because naturally hostile kids select those hobbies.
A. Excluding children with both hobby types does not address causation.
B. This introduces possible testing bias against competitive-hobby children, so it weakens.
C. Different attitudes toward team vs. individual performance are irrelevant to hostility.
D. If children become more hostile during and after competitions, while non-competitive children do not, this directly supports that competition causes hostility.
E. Boys vs. girls comparison is irrelevant.
Answer: D
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The most important thing in this question is to identify which conclusion we have to strengthen, there are two view points here: first is by psychological researchers and second is by author.
We have to strengthen the conclusion by psychological researchers: children interested in competitive hobbies show more hostility than children interested in non-competitive hobbies do.
We have to strengthen the conclusion by psychological researchers: children interested in competitive hobbies show more hostility than children interested in non-competitive hobbies do.
