Q3 - An anthropologist hypothesized that

[weiyichen1986]

Hi, I chose correct on this one, but i just feel the correct answer is too broad, " any experiment that could be...", while the stimulus is only talking about this anthropologist hypothesis.

Can anyone explain if it is okay for those principle questions to have such a broad answer? Thanks in advance.

[timmydoeslsat]

Yes it is fine. Think of principle support questions like sufficient assumption questions.

If we had this principle in place, would it help to justify the conclusion?

In this case, yes, answer choice E would.

We have a situation where a scientist did neglect to report an experiment that could be interpreted as disconfirming the hypothesis she had.

Answer choices:

A) Reporting results not conducted? Reporting a false result? Neither of those situations occurred in the stimulus.

B) There was no report of results.

C) We want committed fraud, not innocent of fraud.

D) There was no report of results.

[bbirdwell]

Absolutely! As timmy said, it's great to think of principle questions as sufficient assumption questions...

A principle is a general idea. So the stimulus gives us a specific situation, and we want a general (ie more broad) "rule" that will guarantee argument's reasoning.