Shouldn't everything on the stimulus be viewed as correct?
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 11:16 pm
I've read on multiple study books (Bible, Manhattan, Trainer) that everything that is written on the stimulus should be looked as 100% correct and thus should not be questioned of its validity.
But look at PT13-S2-Q20.
It's a flaw question, and the stimulus is laid out in the following way:
"A can cause C due to reason Z.
What is true of A in this regard is also true for B.
Therefore, B can cause C due to the same reason"
The correct answer is A ("the argument treats a correlation that holds within individual categories as thereby holding across categories as well"). So basically, it's saying that the argument incorrectly views what is true for category A as equally applicable to the case of category B. But this correlation was already clearly established in the stimulus, so I don't see how this can be a flaw.
I looked through Manhattan forum but did not see a satisfying answer.
But look at PT13-S2-Q20.
It's a flaw question, and the stimulus is laid out in the following way:
"A can cause C due to reason Z.
What is true of A in this regard is also true for B.
Therefore, B can cause C due to the same reason"
The correct answer is A ("the argument treats a correlation that holds within individual categories as thereby holding across categories as well"). So basically, it's saying that the argument incorrectly views what is true for category A as equally applicable to the case of category B. But this correlation was already clearly established in the stimulus, so I don't see how this can be a flaw.
I looked through Manhattan forum but did not see a satisfying answer.