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Among tracking dogs in a police training program, the types of paw injuries that result from following rough trails are common. Because following rough trails is a critical aspect of the training program, instead of reducing the time the dogs spend practicing this skill, the department plans to provide protective footwear for the dogs while they train to eliminate most or all of their paw injuries. This footwear has been shown to reduce the rate of paw injuries while not interfering with the dogs' performance.

Which of the following would be most useful to know in order to evaluate the likelihood that the police department's plan will meet its objective?

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C) Whether paw injuries in dogs in the training program are caused by other activities in the training program
I am sure that many would go for this as an answer. But plan is to provide protective footwear THROUGHOUT the trg. So, even if there are other parts of the trg that can lead to paw injuries, the protective wear would ensure no injuries.

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E) What proportion of the dogs in the training program follow rough trails while not in training
Now, the protective wear is being used only for the training part, so if the routine of these dogs requires them to use rough trail even when not under training, the plan is likely to fail unless the protective wear is used throughout. Correct

chetan2u, I respectfully disagree. The police department's plan is the following, "the department plans to provide protective footwear for the dogs while they train to eliminate most or all of their paw injuries." The prompt only discusses the plan in the training program and nothing else. The information of dogs using the shoes outside of training is out of scope and should be disregarded.

In my opinion, this question is faulty and is not consistent with the OG questions and solutions. If any expert would like to weigh in, please do.
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Among tracking dogs in a police training program, the types of paw injuries that result from following rough trails are common. Because following rough trails is a critical aspect of the training program, instead of reducing the time the dogs spend practicing this skill, the department plans to provide protective footwear for the dogs while they train to eliminate most or all of their paw injuries. This footwear has been shown to reduce the rate of paw injuries while not interfering with the dogs' performance.

Which of the following would be most useful to know in order to evaluate the likelihood that the police department's plan will meet its objective?

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C) Whether paw injuries in dogs in the training program are caused by other activities in the training program
I am sure that many would go for this as an answer. But plan is to provide protective footwear THROUGHOUT the trg. So, even if there are other parts of the trg that can lead to paw injuries, the protective wear would ensure no injuries.

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E) What proportion of the dogs in the training program follow rough trails while not in training
Now, the protective wear is being used only for the training part, so if the routine of these dogs requires them to use rough trail even when not under training, the plan is likely to fail unless the protective wear is used throughout. Correct

chetan2u, I respectfully disagree. The police department's plan is the following, "the department plans to provide protective footwear for the dogs while they train to eliminate most or all of their paw injuries." The prompt only discusses the plan in the training program and nothing else. The information of dogs using the shoes outside of training is out of scope and should be disregarded.

In my opinion, this question is faulty and is not consistent with the OG questions and solutions. If any expert would like to weigh in, please do.


Hi,

The para talks of protective gear during the training. But it does not restrict the paw injuries to the training itself.
It never speaks of paw injuries during training. We talk of paw injuries in general, injuries that can hamper the training of dogs. So E should not be taken as out of context/scope.

Move off training is what we connect with the paw injuries through E.
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Among tracking dogs in a police training program, the types of paw injuries that result from following rough trails are common. Because following rough trails is a critical aspect of the training program, instead of reducing the time the dogs spend practicing this skill, the department plans to provide protective footwear for the dogs while they train to eliminate most or all of their paw injuries. This footwear has been shown to reduce the rate of paw injuries while not interfering with the dogs' performance.

Which of the following would be most useful to know in order to evaluate the likelihood that the police department's plan will meet its objective?

A) How successful other forms of protective equipment have been in reducing other types of injuries to police dogs
B) Whether other kinds of injuries to dogs in the training program also result from following rough trails
C) Whether paw injuries in dogs in the training program are caused by other activities in the training program
D) Whether changes to the police department's policy could reduce the need for tracking dogs
E) What proportion of the dogs in the training program follow rough trails while not in training


Para when broken down..


paw injuries that result from following rough trails are common >>> dogs provided protective footwear while training >>> resulting in lesser paw inuries

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to provide protective footwear for the dogs while they train to eliminate most or all of their paw injuries.
Important points -
a) used while they train AND
b) deals with paw injuries

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A) How successful other forms of protective equipment have been in reducing other types of injuries to police dogs
We are dealing with paw injuries only. Discard without wasting any further time.

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B) Whether other kinds of injuries to dogs in the training program also result from following rough trails
Same as A above. We are dealing with paw injuries only. Discard without wasting any further time.

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C) Whether paw injuries in dogs in the training program are caused by other activities in the training program
I am sure that many would go for this as an answer. But plan is to provide protective footwear THROUGHOUT the trg. So, even if there are other parts of the trg that can lead to paw injuries, the protective wear would ensure no injuries.

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D) Whether changes to the police department's policy could reduce the need for tracking dogs
Out of context completely

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E) What proportion of the dogs in the training program follow rough trails while not in training
Now, the protective wear is being used only for the training part, so if the routine of these dogs requires them to use rough trail even when not under training, the plan is likely to fail unless the protective wear is used throughout. Correct

E

Hi Chetan,

I was able to come up with E as my answer and it logically makes sense. But the reason why I rejected C is that it talks about injuries during other activities in the training, while the argument talks about injuries and activities during following rough trails and the conclusion wants us to evaluate the same.

So, am I correct to think this way? or should I look for reasoning on your grounds where the protective gear is available throughout the training hence, injuries from other activities will protect the paws of the dogs?
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In defense of answer choice C, let me consider a scenario representative of "other activities" - what if due to wearing the shoes daily and practicing running and jumping as part of their activities, dogs sweat in their shoes, and because of the sweat in their shoes they suffer fungal infection in the paws. This would then be a counter-case because even after wearing shoes, the dogs suffer paw injuries in other activities of the training. Hence, I reject choice C.

Choice E also seems correct to me.
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