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To discover what percentage of teenagers believe in telekinesis—the psychic ability to move objects without physically touching them—a recent survey asked a representative sample of teenagers whether they agreed with the following statement: “A person’s thoughts can influence the movement of physical objects.” But because this statement is particularly ambiguous and is amenable to a naturalistic, uncontroversial interpretation, the survey’s responses are also ambiguous.
The reasoning above conforms most closely to which one of the following general propositions?
(A) Uncontroversial statements are useless in surveys.
(B) Every statement is amenable to several interpretations.
(C) Responses to surveys are always unambiguous if the survey’s questions are well phrased.
(D) Responses people give to poorly phrased questions are likely to be ambiguous.
(E) Statements about psychic phenomena can always be given naturalistic interpretations.
The reasoning above conforms most closely to which one of the following general propositions?
(A) Uncontroversial statements are useless in surveys.
(B) Every statement is amenable to several interpretations.
(C) Responses to surveys are always unambiguous if the survey’s questions are well phrased.
(D) Responses people give to poorly phrased questions are likely to be ambiguous.
(E) Statements about psychic phenomena can always be given naturalistic interpretations.
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The author of the passage claims that because the survey question is ambiguous, the responses are also ambiguous.
Now let's look at the answer choices.
Now let's look at the answer choices.
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(A) is irrelevant, whether it is useful or useless is out of scope;
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(B) is again irrelevant, it makes no connection to the survey responses;
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(C) is essentially a mistaken negation. It talks about unambiguous responses to well-phrased questions, whereas our argument discusses ambiguous responses to the poorly-phrased questions;
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(D) is the correct answer choice as it strengthens our conclusion;
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(E) is irrelevant, it does not matter whether the statement can be given naturalistic interpretation.
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In a survey, a question is asked. Since the question is ambiguous and amenable to a naturalistic, the responses are ambiguous (conclusion).
The reasoning above conforms most closely to which one of the following general propositions?
We need to find the reasoning that is similar to the reasoning used to arrive at the conclusion mentioned in the argument.
(A) Uncontroversial statements are useless in surveys.
Incorrect: The reasoning in the argument is about ambiguous, but not about useful or useless. Out of scope
(B) Every statement is amenable to several interpretations.
Incorrect: The argument talks about the ambiguous statements (or questions), not every statement, so this option generalizes the reasoning (used in the question stem) to every statement, out of scope
(C) Responses to surveys are always unambiguous if the survey’s questions are well phrased.
Incorrect: We can't compare the reasoning used in the question stem regarding ambiguous questions to the reasoning used in this option regarding unambiguous questions
(D) Responses people give to poorly phrased questions are likely to be ambiguous.
Correct: This option is a general proposition about ambiguous questions, and this reasoning is used in the question stem
(E) Statements about psychic phenomena can always be given naturalistic interpretations.
Incorrect: The argument is concerned about survey results, not how statements are interpreted. Also, we don't know how people will respond after naturalistic interpretations
The reasoning above conforms most closely to which one of the following general propositions?
We need to find the reasoning that is similar to the reasoning used to arrive at the conclusion mentioned in the argument.
(A) Uncontroversial statements are useless in surveys.
Incorrect: The reasoning in the argument is about ambiguous, but not about useful or useless. Out of scope
(B) Every statement is amenable to several interpretations.
Incorrect: The argument talks about the ambiguous statements (or questions), not every statement, so this option generalizes the reasoning (used in the question stem) to every statement, out of scope
(C) Responses to surveys are always unambiguous if the survey’s questions are well phrased.
Incorrect: We can't compare the reasoning used in the question stem regarding ambiguous questions to the reasoning used in this option regarding unambiguous questions
(D) Responses people give to poorly phrased questions are likely to be ambiguous.
Correct: This option is a general proposition about ambiguous questions, and this reasoning is used in the question stem
(E) Statements about psychic phenomena can always be given naturalistic interpretations.
Incorrect: The argument is concerned about survey results, not how statements are interpreted. Also, we don't know how people will respond after naturalistic interpretations
