Q16

[ohthatpatrick]

What does the Question Stem tell us?
Principle-Example

Break down the Stimulus:
"To do X you must do Y" will always be diagrammed as "if X, then Y". Whenever something is Required, the Required thing goes on the Right (the Necessary side).

So this rule says:
Acting responsibly at your job --> acting on information you've verified is legit.

Any prephrase?
Most questions that give us a Principle and ask us to apply it use the contrapositive, just to test us on our ability to think that way. You can also expect that they are ultimately testing a "Criterion --> Adjective/Judgment" type idea. So we would be wise to contrapose the given rule and think of this as
"If you AREN'T acting on information you've verified to be legit, you're NOT acting responsibly".

Because this rule only allows us to conclude " ---> not acting responsibly", any answers that conclude someone IS acting responsibly are automatically wrong.

Correct answer:
C

Answer choice analysis:
A) Automatically wrong.

B) Automatically wrong.

C) Correct. "Not investigating risks" = "hasn't made reasonable effort to verify legit"

D) There's nothing to blame Conchita for here. Helmer's costly mistake has no historical precedent, so even if Conchita had done her due diligence to verify Helmer, she wouldn't have found anything in his record to suggest he'd make this costly mistake.

E) This is definitely "NOT making much effort to get accurate and complete info", BUT, this is also about planning her vacation. The principle was about acting responsibly in your professional capacity.

Takeaway/Pattern: Understanding that you can only prove what's on the right side of the arrow is the shortcut to eliminating tons of answer choices on Principle questions. And when you're down to two, like C vs. E, the difference maker is usually some subtlety of the context/category under which this rule is said to apply. We might have oversimplified the rule as "if you didn't act on good info, you weren't acting responsibly". But this rule is only being applied to one's professional capacity.

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[laviandaniel74]

I understand y C cud b right, but i feel like B is just as valid, if not more, than C. Can anyone explain y B is wrong?