Logical reasoning PrepTest 131 · Section 3 · Question 6

Incorrect. This answer choice does conclude that a group is being unfairly criticized, but it's not based on something being impossible. Rather, it's about something no longer being necessary because of increases in efficiency.

Correct. Argument or Facts:
Argument

Valid or Flawed:
Flawed

Question Type:
Principle (Parallel Reasoning)

Stimulus Summary:
Editorial: Psychologists have failed to attempt to establish the order areas of the brain are activated.
Argument: That's currently impossible to do, so the criticism is unfair.

Answer Anticipation:
Principle questions generally connect the details of a scenario to a judgment being made. Here, we're challenged with finding an answer that conforms to a principle that the passage's reasoning also conforms to, so we need to start by generalizing from the passage to get our principle.

It's important to focus on the right part of the passage, though, as there are two viewpoints. Since the question asks about the passage and not the editorial, the argument we care about is that of the author of the passage. She rebuts the editorial and calls its criticism "unfair"—a judgment that needs to be justified based on her premise(s). That premise is that what the editorial calls for the psychologists to do is currently impossible. So the principle underlying her argument is:

If something is currently impossible, it's unfair to criticize people for failing to do it.

With that laid out, it's time to head to the answer choices to find a scenario and judgment that follows the same pattern.

Answer Explanation:
This answer choice does conclude that a group is being unfairly criticized, and it's based on the thing they're being criticized for not doing being currently impossible. This answer, therefore, follows the same principle as the stimulus and is thus the correct answer.

Key Takeaway:
This set of answer choices all had conclusions that conformed to the principle, so the work needed to be done in analyzing the premises. This is a harder task than many of these questions where a few of the answers will fail to conform to the conclusion justified by the principle.

Incorrect. This answer does conclude that a group is being unfairly criticized, but it's based on them failing to take cost-saving measures rather than on something being impossible.

Incorrect. This answer does conclude that a group is being unfairly criticized, but it's based on them not willing to make a certain trade-off rather than something being impossible.

Incorrect. This answer does conclude that a group is being unfairly criticized, but it's based on the criticism being misplaced under certain scenarios, not on something being impossible.