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As a result of modern medicine, more people have been able to enjoy long and pain-free lives. But the resulting increase in life expectancy has contributed to a steady increase in the proportion of the population that is of advanced age. This population shift is creating potentially devastating financial problems for some social welfare programs.
Which one of the following propositions is most precisely exemplified by the situation presented above?
(A) Technical or scientific innovation cannot be the solution to all problems.
(B) Implementing technological innovations should be delayed until the resulting social changes can be managed.
(C) Every enhancement of the quality of life has unavoidable negative consequences.
(D) All social institutions are affected by a preoccupation with prolonging life.
(E) Solving one set of problems can create a different set of problems.
Which one of the following propositions is most precisely exemplified by the situation presented above?
(A) Technical or scientific innovation cannot be the solution to all problems.
(B) Implementing technological innovations should be delayed until the resulting social changes can be managed.
(C) Every enhancement of the quality of life has unavoidable negative consequences.
(D) All social institutions are affected by a preoccupation with prolonging life.
(E) Solving one set of problems can create a different set of problems.
09 Oct 2020, 08:27
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KAPLAN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
(E) Principle
Eliminate an answer choice more extreme than the stimulus itself.
This Principle question has much in common with Parallel Reasoning: the correct answer will generalize the specific example in the stimulus into a broad rule. The situation in the stimulus initially sounds pretty rosy: people are leading longer and less painful lives thanks to advances in medicine. But better health is having an adverse effect, since a greater percentage of older people in the population means that some welfare programs are now facing severe financial troubles. If we take this situation and broaden it, the author is basically saying that eliminating certain problems (shorter, more painful lives) causes others (compromised finances for social welfare programs) to arise. (E) paraphrases that idea nicely.
(A) The author’s point is that modern medical innovations have solved some problems but created others. That’s quite different from saying that technological innovation cannot solve all problems; perhaps the new problems created by advances in modern medicine can be solved by other scientific means.
(B) contains a recommendation. The author never discusses ways to avoid the new problems created by advances in medicine; the whole point of the stimulus is that those problems have been created.
(C), (D) Answer choices that use extreme language are rarely correct. So (C), which says that every enhancement of the quality of life has side effects, and (D), which says that a preoccupation with prolonging life affects all social institutions, need to be eliminated. The stimulus is not that far-reaching.
(E) Principle
Eliminate an answer choice more extreme than the stimulus itself.
This Principle question has much in common with Parallel Reasoning: the correct answer will generalize the specific example in the stimulus into a broad rule. The situation in the stimulus initially sounds pretty rosy: people are leading longer and less painful lives thanks to advances in medicine. But better health is having an adverse effect, since a greater percentage of older people in the population means that some welfare programs are now facing severe financial troubles. If we take this situation and broaden it, the author is basically saying that eliminating certain problems (shorter, more painful lives) causes others (compromised finances for social welfare programs) to arise. (E) paraphrases that idea nicely.
(A) The author’s point is that modern medical innovations have solved some problems but created others. That’s quite different from saying that technological innovation cannot solve all problems; perhaps the new problems created by advances in modern medicine can be solved by other scientific means.
(B) contains a recommendation. The author never discusses ways to avoid the new problems created by advances in medicine; the whole point of the stimulus is that those problems have been created.
(C), (D) Answer choices that use extreme language are rarely correct. So (C), which says that every enhancement of the quality of life has side effects, and (D), which says that a preoccupation with prolonging life affects all social institutions, need to be eliminated. The stimulus is not that far-reaching.
23 May 2021, 08:25
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I don't think this is a good question. Options C and E practically convey the same meaning and cannot be discarded straight away. Option A also involves an important feature of the stem. Option B would have been perfect if the stem didn't mention "steady increase". If anything, B seems to be the closest.
