Parents of some of the children in a particular class have claimed that the teacher is not objective and favors his male students with higher grades. But the record showed that 92% of the female students received a passing grade in this teacher's class. This record demonstrates that the teacher has not discriminated against women when assigning grades.
The argument above is flawed in that it ignored the possibility that
underlying assumption: the argument assumes that as long as there is a 92% "passing grade" that means discrimination is not possible/present!A. a large number of the teacher's student were in his class the previous year.- number of students is irrelevant!-
wrong!B. many teachers find it difficult to be objective when assigning grades to male and female students.- we are concerned about just one teacher and not all of the teachers in general-
wrong!C. the evidence shows that more than 92% of the female students should have received a passing grade.- maybe its just one more student who needed to get a passing grade doesn't pass for a strong contender (as an option)-
wrong!D. the majority of tests written by female students and that have been rechecked by another teacher were given a higher grade by the second teacher.-
CORRECT! as getting higher grades is the issue and not just getting the passing grade
E. the teacher is biased against female students in the case of only some of the subjects he teachers.- some can mean just one student and is not a strong enough argument-
wrong! _________________
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