QUESTION TEXT: Some health officials are concerned about the…
QUESTION TYPE: Strengthen
CONCLUSION: There are more alcohol-related deaths because doctors are classifying more deaths as being alcohol-related.
REASONING: Alcoholism is now seen as a disease, so doctors are more likely to say it is the cause of death.
ANALYSIS: This is already a pretty good argument. We can strengthen it by showing that doctors are doing this quite often, or that doctors are able to do this.
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- This is just a statistic about alcohol deaths. But we don’t know how often this happens, or how much earlier the deaths are reported. And even if we did know, I don’t know what this would prove.
- That’s nice. Where was that, ancient Babylon? In the Roman Empire? And which moral failings…greed? Lust? This is a useless answer. We’re talking about alcohol, in the present.
- CORRECT. This shows that doctors are now better able to correctly classify a death as having been caused by alcohol. In the past, they might have just said “liver failure”, without realizing what caused the problem.
- This talks about how to treat alcoholism, when the patient is alive. The stimulus talked about how we classify deaths.
- Who cares? The health officials are relying on statistics that are reported by physicians.
You don’t have to be a doctor to interpret
doctors’ data.
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