Why not D

Started by Sash · started 2020-09-29 20:42 · last activity 2020-10-02 17:57 · 2 replies

I am still confused as to how D isn’t correct because by spending money on the nonstandard which is cheaper & ineffective you would think that it makes the argument sufficient because they are going the cheaper route when when they should be budgeting instead for the standard method. So with every purchase of the nonstandard is less money spent that should be actually spent for the standard treatment.

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  1. Ravi · 2020-10-01 19:24

    @Sash, great question. (D) is incorrect because it does not rule out the possibility that spending on standard treatments went up. If there were a huge increase in spending on all treatments for disease X, but just slightly more for nonstandard treatments, then the conclusion could be false. Thus, (D) is out.
  2. Sash · 2020-10-02 17:57

    Got it. Thank you!

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