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Senator: Between 1950 and present, the number of women diagnosed with postpartum depression each year in the country of Heranita has increased by a factor of ten. We must improve our systems for supporting women after childbirth to stem this increase in the number of new mothers experiencing postpartum depression.
Which of the following, if true, would most call the argument above into question?
A. The amount of spending on women’s health has increased since 1950.
B. Rates of postpartum depression are not included in official government statistics.
C. The minimum threshold of symptoms women experience before they can be diagnosed has increased since 1950.
D. Until 1970, most doctors were not specific in their diagnoses but instead grouped all types of depression together.
E. It is likely that cases of postpartum depression are underreported in Heranita.
Which of the following, if true, would most call the argument above into question?
A. The amount of spending on women’s health has increased since 1950.
B. Rates of postpartum depression are not included in official government statistics.
C. The minimum threshold of symptoms women experience before they can be diagnosed has increased since 1950.
D. Until 1970, most doctors were not specific in their diagnoses but instead grouped all types of depression together.
E. It is likely that cases of postpartum depression are underreported in Heranita.
08 Jun 2020, 01:35
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Between 1950 and present, the number of women diagnosed with PP depression each year has increased by a factor of ten. (So in 1950, if 200 women had PP depression, now 2000 do)
We must improve our systems for supporting women after childbirth to stem this increase in the number of new mothers experiencing postpartum depression.
What will call this argument into question?
There are various ways:
- If we can say that number of new mothers has increased by a factor of 20, then PP depression seems to have reduced percentage wise.
- If we can say that it existed in similar numbers before but was just not diagnosed before, that will call our argument into question.
- If we can say that it existed in similar numbers but was misdiagnosed as some other disease, that will serve the purpose too.
etc
A. The amount of spending on women’s health has increased since 1950.
Irrelevant
B. Rates of postpartum depression are not included in official government statistics.
Irrelevant
C. The minimum threshold of symptoms women experience before they can be diagnosed has increased since 1950.
This should have led to fewer cases, not more.
D. Until 1970, most doctors were not specific in their diagnoses but instead grouped all types of depression together.
So PP depression was not diagnosed as such by MOST doctors earlier. It was just called depression. Then it is possible that 2000 women had PP depression in 1950 also but for 1800 of them, it was just called depression. Only very few doctors identified PP depression and hence we got the number fo 200 in 1950.
This weakens our argument.
E. It is likely that cases of postpartum depression are underreported in Heranita.
This means that there are even more cases than 2000 and perhaps there were more than 200 in 1950. Doesn't help.
Answer (D)
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In my opinion it can't be D. Say till 1960 all kinds of depression were deemed postpartum depression/depression. So say the number prior to 1960 was 10. Now that 10 included other depressions too, so the number of actual postpartum depression cases could be at max 10, and atleast 0. Now today, postpartum depression is not clubbed with other depressions, yet the number is 10 times of the previous number i.e. 100. So in any case the number of cases today (Considering cases of depression are segregated) for postpartum depression is greater than the number of cases that used to happen, this strengthens the argument.
