QUESTION TEXT: People who are allergic to cats are…
QUESTION TYPE: Most Strongly Supported
FACTS:
- If you’re allergic to cats, you’re actually allergic to proteins in their skin and saliva.
- Different people are allergic to different proteins.
- Every cat can cause allergic reactions.
- Many cats only cause allergic reactions in some allergic people, but not all allergic people.
ANALYSIS: This question has a lot of details, making it seem more complicated than it is.
We know that cats don’t produce the same reactions. Since skin and saliva proteins cause reactions, that means that skin and saliva proteins probably differ between cats.
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- ‘Any’ is a sufficient condition indicator. This says everyone is allergic to some cats. Nonsense.
- This made me laugh. There could definitely be some horrible cat that causes reactions in everybody. It could have every terrible protein.
- CORRECT. This seems likely. Otherwise all cats would cause the same people to have allergic reactions.
- The stimulus doesn’t mention intensity.
- Why would this be true? We might be able to analyze the proteins and determine which cats would cause reactions in certain people.
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Rie says
Hi,
I thought D was correct. If someone has an allergic reaction to a given cat, and another does not (as the stimulus states), wouldn’t that count as one person having a “more intense” reaction than the other?
Thank you.
MemberOrion says
Hi Rie,
Answer D says “the allergic reactions of some people . . . are more intense than the allergic reactions of other allergy sufferers”.
Note that it doesn’t compare their reactions to a particular cat – just their general reactions. Additionally, it is specifically comparing their allergic reactions, so someone not having an allergic reaction to a given cat would not be relevant to the comparison.
Hope this helps!