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Q6 - The Rodriguez family

by roflcoptersoisoi Sat Jul 02, 2016 2:20 pm

Point at issue:
Hospital auditor: Not all the funds donated by the Rodriguez family to the neurological clinic are being used to minimize patient's suffering.
Reasoning: Some of the funds are being used for research into new diagnostic technologies.
Clinic administrator: All the funds donated by the rodriguez family to the neurological clinic are being used to minimize patient's suffering.
Reasoning: The funds being used for research into new diagnostic technologies which in most cases will allow for early diagnosis and those who are treated in the early stages of neurological disorders suffer less than those that are not.

(A) This is embellishes and goes beyond the reasoning that is unique to the clinic administrator's argument. The administrator argues that early diagnosis lessens the suffering, but doesn't say it will eliminate such suffering, nor does the hospital auditor, eliminate.
(B) This is not a point that is discussed by any of them.
(C) This is unique to the auditor's point, it's not mentioned at all by the administrator, eliminate.
(D) Bingo. The auditor thinks no because he presumes that investing in new diagnostic technologies does not help minimizing the patient's suffering, whereas the administrator thinks they are because he believes these technologies do help the patients.
(E) This isn't discussed by either, eliminate.
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Re: Q6 - The Rodriguez family

by maryadkins Sat Jul 09, 2016 4:29 pm

My only caveat to this explanation is that the Clinic Administrator never actually says, "All the funds donated by the Rodriguez family to the neurological clinic are being used to minimize patient's suffering." So just be careful when you attribute a claim to a person that is not explicitly made.