Q18 - cultures of human cell

[soyeonjeon]

Can we please go over this problem?

I also don't get what the question type is for this one. Is it Must-be-true?
or is it literal that the stimulus should lead to the answer choice, which should be the conclusion of the stimulus?

I had the feeling that it's E, but I can't nail down the rational for my thinking so.

Thanks.

[sumukh09]

This is a "Most Strongly Supported" question so the answer choice does not necessarily have to be 100% true. Personally I think it's important to remain flexible for these question types because the correct answer could seemingly come out of left field yet be relevant enough to be the right answer. For this one you can relate the elements of the answer choice to that of the stimulus reasonably enough.

The breakdown of the stimulus is that cosmetic firms are committed to using human cultures for product safety tests because they believe the new tests serve to reduce the need for tests on live animals.

What do we know from this? Well, we know that they have an issue with testing with live animals for one; knowing just this is actually enough to arrive at the correct answer choice.

A) is incorrect because there's no indication of pressure and social activists are not mentioned at all in the stimulus so this is not supported in the least

B) is incorrect because we do not know nor have any indication that would suggest that this change would have any affect on consumer buying habits.

C) is incorrect because the stimulus doesn't suggest that financial consultants played a role in the change nor is there any indication that it would cost the firm less

D) is incorrect because nothing suggests that there would be a need for fewer tests after making the switch to using human cultures

E) is correct because it can be reasonably supported that the managers of cosmetic firms believe that it is better to adopt a method that does not use live animals if another alternative ie) human cultures is conceivable. This plays off our initial assertion that they have something against using live animals so we can reasonably make the leap and say that the managers would rather use an alternative.

[GeoffreyL635]

@sumukh09

Did you ever consider teaching this stuff? I find your explanations are very concise and more than palatable to every person's tastes compared to most out there which I find are explained through their perspective only which makes them unrelatable and even more confusing.

Thank you for doing all this and I wish to come across more of your explanations here and on other blogs/forums!