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03 Feb 2020, 03:34
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Myrna: People should follow diets in which fat represents no more than 30 percent of total calories, not the 37 percent the average diet in this country contains.
Roland: If everyone in the country followed you recommendation during his or her entire life, just 0.2 percent would lengthen their live at all, and then only by an average of 3 months. Modifying our diet is not worthwhile. A lifetime of sacrifice spent eating an unappealing low-fat diet is too high a price to pay for the chance of extending that sacrifice for 3 months.
Myrna: But for everyone who dies early from a high-fat diet, many more people suffer from serious chronic diseases because they followed such diets.
Myrna responds to Roland by
(A) disputing the correctness of the facts cited by Roland and offering facts that she considers correct
(B) showing that the factors considered by Roland are not the only ones relevant in evaluating her recommendation
(C) demonstrating that the statistics used by Roland to dispute her recommendation are inaccurate
(D) suggesting that Roland’s evidence derives from unreliable sources
(E) pointing out that Roland’s argument assumes the very proposition it sets out to prove
Roland: If everyone in the country followed you recommendation during his or her entire life, just 0.2 percent would lengthen their live at all, and then only by an average of 3 months. Modifying our diet is not worthwhile. A lifetime of sacrifice spent eating an unappealing low-fat diet is too high a price to pay for the chance of extending that sacrifice for 3 months.
Myrna: But for everyone who dies early from a high-fat diet, many more people suffer from serious chronic diseases because they followed such diets.
Myrna responds to Roland by
(A) disputing the correctness of the facts cited by Roland and offering facts that she considers correct
(B) showing that the factors considered by Roland are not the only ones relevant in evaluating her recommendation
(C) demonstrating that the statistics used by Roland to dispute her recommendation are inaccurate
(D) suggesting that Roland’s evidence derives from unreliable sources
(E) pointing out that Roland’s argument assumes the very proposition it sets out to prove
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
(A) No. Myrna does not dispute Roland’s statements. Rather, she expands the scope of the discussion from mortality to overall health.
(B) Yes. While Roland considers only the changes in life-span that would result from a change in diet, Myrna considers the overall health benefits.
(C) No. Myrna does not dispute Roland’s statements. Rather, she expands the scope of the discussion from mortality to overall health.
(D) No. Myrna does not dispute Roland’s statements.
(E) No. Myrna does not say that Roland’s argument is circular. Rather, she expands the scope of the discussion from mortality to overall health.
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03 Feb 2020, 11:41
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B sounds much more logical since B shows that the factors are not only increased life span but also diseases caused due to high fat diets
