Logical reasoning PrepTest 113 · Section 3 · Question 3

Question prompt

Announcement for a television Remaining source text redacted.
Why the credited answer is right

Credited answer: C

The notes below walk through why it fits the stem and how to eliminate the rest.

Argument or Facts

Argument

Valid or Flawed

Flawed

Question Type

Weaken Questions

Stimulus Summary

Question - Do female doctors listen better to female patients than male doctors?
Approach - We asked doctors of both sexes.

Answer Anticipation

Whenever an argument asks experts a question, it’s important to see if those experts are the proper authorities to address that question.
Here, would the doctors be the appropriate ones to ask as to whether male or female doctors are more sensitive to the needs of women? Not at all. The doctors probably think they’re attentive to all their patients. To answer this question, we’d either need to ask someone who ran a study concerning this topic, or women who have gone to both male and female physicians.

Answer choices

  1. A
    Physicians are in general Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice A is not credited
    First off, treatment style isn’t the same thing as attentiveness/sensitivity to needs. Second, the program wouldn’t require a discussion of each other’s work, as the physicians could analyze their own behavior.
  2. B
    There still are fewer Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice B is not credited
    Whether patients have the opportunity to choose a woman as a physician doesn’t affect whether women who can find a physician more sensitive to their needs.
  3. C
    Those who are best Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice C matches the stem
    This answer highlights that the wrong experts are being asked the question. The physicians wouldn’t have a comparative view of how sensitive physicians of different sexes are towards women’s needs. Women who have had both male and female physicians would be much better able to answer that question.
  4. D
    Since medical research is Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice D is not credited
    Medical research? That’s out of scope in a discussion of physicians paying attention to the needs of their patients.
  5. E
    Women as patients are Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice E is not credited
    How active women are in their care doesn’t get at the issue in the stimulus - are male or female physicians more sensitive to these patients’ needs?

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Question analytics

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Answer choice distribution

  1. A 3%
  2. B 4%
  3. C Credited 90%
  4. D 1%
  5. E 3%

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