RC Question 19 Explanation, by LSATHacks
DISCUSSION: The full line says “expert clinical community”. From context, this probably refers to a group of doctors and researchers with experience in certain drugs and diseases.
For instance, the community of HIV/AIDS researchers or the community of throat cancer researchers. These researchers may be spread all over the world – research communities aren’t usually based on geography.
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- CORRECT. This is it. For instance, the HIV/AIDS research community focusses on how to cure and treat HIV/AIDS. Their body of knowledge is common clinical experience and published research on how to treat HIV/AIDS.
- Doubtful. Medical experts live all over the world yet work on the same problems. Nothing in the passage suggests a geographic community of researchers.
- This doesn’t have to be true. For instance, I’m sure the HIV/AIDS community has many opinions on topics I have no opinion about, because I am unfamiliar with the topic. It’s not a requirement that a community differ in opinion from other communities. The community just needs to be studying the same topic.
- This answer throws in the term “ethics” to try to confuse you. It’s true the passage is talking about the ethics of conducting experiments. But that’s a specific context. A community doesn’t have to have the same ethical opinions on all topics (e.g. should you give to charity? Do we owe a responsibility to family than to strangers?)
- What an odd answer. The passage doesn’t talk about research methods, or methods being used in multiple disciplines. (An ethical requirement in an experiment is not a research method).
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