MBA2ran wrote:
Within 20 years it will probably be possible to identify the genetic susceptibility an individual may have toward any particular disease. Eventually, effective strategies will be discovered to counteract each such susceptibility. Once these effective strategies are found, therefore, the people who follow them will never get sick.
The argument above is based on which of the following assumptions?
(A) For every disease there is only one strategy that can prevent its occurrence.
(B) In the future, genetics will be the only medical specialty of any importance.
(C) All human sicknesses are in part the result of individuals' genetic susceptibilities
(D) All humans are genetically susceptible to some diseases.
(E) People will follow medical advice when they are convinced that it is effective.
Within 20 years it will probably be possible to identify the genetic susceptibility an individual may have toward any particular disease.
Eventually, effective strategies will be discovered to counteract each such susceptibility.
Conclusion: the people who follow them will never get sick.
It is a conditional conclusion. If one follows these strategies, one will never get sick.
We are concluding that the individual will NEVER get sick. So we are concluding that ALL sickness has some genetic connect.
(A) For every disease there is only one strategy that can prevent its occurrence.
No. The argument talks about strategies. There needn't be only one.
(B) In the future, genetics will be the only medical specialty of any importance.
The argument doesn't assume it. It might imply this indirectly since "people will never get sick" but it is certainly not an assumption.
(C) All human sicknesses are in part the result of individuals' genetic susceptibilities
Correct. Since we are saying that they will never get sick, we are assuming that ALL human sicknesses are in part the result of individuals' genetic susceptibilities.
(D) All humans are genetically susceptible to some diseases.
Not an assumption. All humans needn't get sick. We do not have to assume that all humans are genetically susceptible to some diseases. It is possible that some humans are not genetically susceptible to any diseases. They may not get sick. Out assumption is that all sickness is a result of genetic susceptibilities.
Mudit27021988Negate (D) - All humans are not genetically susceptible to some diseases.
Conclusion can still hold. Those humans who are not genetically susceptible to some diseases may anyway not get sick. It does not mean that some humans are susceptible to non-genetic diseases. It only means that they are not susceptible to genetic diseases. Why do they have to be susceptible to any diseases?
(E) People will follow medical advice when they are convinced that it is effective.
We don't need to worry about whether people will follow medical advice and when will they follow it. The conclusion is conditional. If they follow, they will not get sick.
Answer (C)