| Critical Reasoning Butler: June 2025 |
| June 12 | CR 1 | CR 2 |
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CR 1 Dolphin sightings are common at Nine Mile beach. Usually dolphins avoid human beings, but sometimes they approach marine workers who offer them food. This has boosted the Nine Mile's appeal to tourists, who once congregated at a neighboring beach. In order to further increase the beach's popularity, therefore, marine workers have proposed implementing a permanent dolphin-feeding program.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly calls into question the likelihood that implementation of the marine workers' proposal will have the desired consequence?
(A) A permanent dolphin-feeding program would likely raise the number of dolphins visible to tourists on any given day.
(B) Business owners who depend on tourism are willing to pay most of the cost of implementing the program.
(C) Nine Mile beach does not offer the same quality of swimming or surfing as do neighboring beaches, but tourists travel from around the world to scuba dive there.
(D) Tourists are attracted to Nine Mile by the opportunity to see dolphins living in the wild, unlike at a nearby theme park, where the dolphins are fed by park employees.
(E) Not all tourists who come to Nine Mile beach are interested in seeing dolphins.
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CR 2 Head of a regional psychiatric association: As an organization, we have found that patients over the last two decades are increasingly likely to suffer from depression that in some cases can lead to an early death. At the same time, we have found that those patients who already practice some form of spirituality tend to be less likely to suffer from depression and thus to live longer and healthier lives. A recent study in a major psychological journal confirms this experience. As a result, we suggest that our members begin encouraging their patients to explore spirituality in the hopes that it will provide them with longer and healthier lives.
The primary argument made by the head of the regional psychological association depends on which of the following assumptions?
A. All of the patients being treated by psychiatrists in the regional psychiatric association are suffering from depression.
B. All patients noted for their longer and healthier lives were practicing the same form of spirituality.
C. All members of the psychiatric association must also pursue spirituality in order to make educated recommendations to their patients.
D. When untreated, depression is a serious condition that leads to death.
E. All forms of spirituality are equally healthy, and any form of spirituality will provide patients with longer and healthier lives.