Guys, please help me, need your input for my reasoning
Here is what I thought.
P: Live together -> More Passionate
C: Not Live Together -> Likely to divorce
More passionate = Unlikely to divorce
A. Divorce is less common in passionate couple
Negation technique:
Divorce is
not less common (equally or even more common) in passionate couple which then imply that you cannot predict the perception of passion to predict divorce rate. So, with negation technique, the argument will fall apart. This is an assumption.
C. Perception of passion is one of many factors that can predict divorce rate
Negation Technique:
Perception of passion is
not one of many factors that can predict divorce rate. IMHO This can be interpreted into two scenarios:
1. Perception of passion is
the only factor that can predict divorce rate or;
2. Perception of passion is
not the factor that can predict divorce rate at all (there are many factors which can predict divorce rate excluding the perception of passion).
Based on the negation technique result in interpretation number 1, the argument will still be valid (so this interpretation is not the assumption)
Based on the negation technique result in interpretation number 2, the argument will fall apart as the perception of passion cannot be used to predict divorce rate. So, if the interpretation is this one, this can be used as an assumption.
However, given that answer B has two different interpretations this choice is eliminated, because the question asked about the assumption that the argument depends on. You cannot depend on something which has two interpretations.
That is why picked A. Please evaluate my reasoning