Q6 - A recent magazine editorial

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Question Type
Match the Reasoning

Stimulus
The argument concludes that psychologists were unfairly criticized for not attempting to determine the order in which areas of the brain are activated during cognitive tasks. The support for this point is that no technology currently exists to allow those psychologists to do so.

Anticipate
The principle underlying the argument is that it is unfair to criticize someone for not doing something that is impossible using current technology.

Correct Answer
(B) establishes that nuclear fusion is not capable of producing enough electricity for even one small town and then goes on to conclude that it is unfair to criticize utility companies for not doing something that is currently impossible to do using current technology.

Incorrect Answers
(A) relies on the wrong evidence. This argument contains technology that is more capable than what construction companies are being criticized for.

(C) uses the wrong evidence. The food industry has attempted to do something that technology currently is not capable of achieving. In the argument in the stimulus, it is the lack of trying for which the psychologists are being defended.

(D) relies on the wrong evidence. This argument contains technology that is capable of achieving the goal. The defense here is that there are other things that must be weighed against the benefit of including computer skills in the school curriculum.

(E) contains evidence that is different from the argument above. Here, the defense is that the avoided action is not always correct, whereas above the avoided action is impossible.

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