Q18 - Some people prefer to avoid facing unpleasant truths

[ohthatpatrick]

Question Type:
Inference (Logical Completion)

Stimulus Breakdown:
Some people want to avoid unpleasant truths. Some people want ALL the truths. If the first group were to follow the Golden Rule, then ….

Answer Anticipation:
We need a safely worded way of pulling together these two strands. The first group wants to be treated in a way that would avoid certain truths, so if the first group behaves that way (withholding certain truths) towards others, then people in the second group won't be able to get what THEY want (access to all the truth).

I would prephrase something like, "then the latter group won't be getting treated the way they want to be treated".

Correct Answer:
B

Answer Choice Analysis:
(A) This is close to being reasonable, although I don't like it at all since it doesn't tie in the latter group. But it's also seemingly wrong by adding on the "they would otherwise be willing to speak". If this former group is withholding comment, it's because that's what they would want others to do to them.

(B) YES, this seems close to our prephrase. It ties together the first two sentences, since the former group and the latter group wish to be treated in two mutually exclusive ways.

(C) Strongly worded. "entirely different" principle? The latter group could also follow the Golden Rule. Since they want people to be completely honest with them, they would be completely honest with others.

(D) Speculative. We don't know how the latter group will respond.

(E) Opposite. The whole point is that the latter group has different preferences.

Takeaway/Pattern: When we're doing a Logical Completion question, we want an answer that uses safe wording to synthesize the two strands of conversation that fed into it.

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[KartikH308]

Thanks, I got it why A is wrong, but confused abt why should the latter group be considered in MBT here as "treat others" could be anyone incl people outside the latter group.