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42-4-6: This is not about the question stem, but rather the stimulus structure.

Am I correct in assessing that we have a subsidiary conclusion leading to the main conclusion.

"More likely than ever to be a victim of violent crime" is what I took for being a subsidiary conclusion from the premise of police responding to 17% more violent calls than in the previous year. I took that the more likely comment to be an extrapolation of that fact/premise. Since this stimulus used the structure of:


Fact ----shows that----Statement.


Is this structure necessarily giving me a premise----conclusion structure, by using the phrase of shows that?

timmydoeslsat wrote:42-4-6: This is not about the question stem, but rather the stimulus structure.

Am I correct in assessing that we have a subsidiary conclusion leading to the main conclusion.

"More likely than ever to be a victim of violent crime" is what I took for being a subsidiary conclusion from the premise of police responding to 17% more violent calls than in the previous year. I took that the more likely comment to be an extrapolation of that fact/premise. Since this stimulus used the structure of:


Fact ----shows that----Statement.


Is this structure necessarily giving me a premise----conclusion structure, by using the phrase of shows that?

Not sure if I fully understand the depth to which you are parsing this here stimulus, but here's my two cents: yes, this is a subsidiary conclusion. In this same section, #16 and #21 also test the concept of subsidiary conclusions. Right?

I originally saw the argument's core to be this:

cops responded to 17% more violent crime calls --> average citizen more likely than ever to be violent crime victim

I see what you mean--I think--about the first sentence being the final conclusion. Probably I ignored it because the question seemed like a classic play on the gap between reported statistic and actual. However, I could see the gap being between the more likely to be a victim and violent crime becoming a serious problem. Seems like you were aware of both--nice job.