QUESTION TEXT: Some people prefer to avoid facing unpleasant…
QUESTION TYPE: Complete the Argument
CONCLUSION: Then group 2 will be annoyed that group 1 isn’t telling them the truth.
REASONING:
- Group 1: Truth haters
- Group 2: Truth lovers
- If group 1 treats group 2 the way group 1 wants to be treated…. (i.e. the golden rule)
ANALYSIS: This question is basically testing your ability to see what words like “the latter” refer to. When you read a question like this, I think it’s helpful to have shorthand for the groups. Then when you get to words like “the former” you can see it’s “group 1: truth haters” and that “the latter” refers to people who want to hear the truth.
So in this scenario, group 1 is going to do what they would prefer to have happen to them: withhold the truth. But, this will annoy group 2, since group 2 would prefer to be told the truth.
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- The passage says nothing about either group’s willingness to speak. It only talks about their willingness to listen. Speaking and listening are very different.
- CORRECT. This means: they (group 1, the truth haters) will sometimes not tell the truth, which will annoy the second group (the ones who like the truth).
- This doesn’t follow. This answer means “The latter group will not follow the golden rule.”
- The stimulus is only talking about how people like hearing the truth (or not hearing it). It doesn’t talk about people withholding the truth in response to having it withheld.
- Nope. The groups have different preferences. So if group 1 withholds the truth from group 2, group 2 will hate it.
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