Strengthen with Necessary Premise Questions - - Question 28
Physiological research has uncovered disturbing evidence linking a number of structural disorders to jogging. Among t...
JashieMarch 18, 2019
Answer choice C
I believed answer choice C to be correct because the passage stated that the earlier joggers had no injuries. So if experience is not a factor than how can it be true that amount of running causes these injuries.
Or did I dispute the wrong cause for the injury.
Pretty much, I'm asking how is A correct?
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The conclusion of the argument is that the human anatomy can't withstand the stresses of jogging. Let's say we negate (A), and so the link between jogging and certain structural disorders isn't causal, it's merely correlative. This would mean that it's not the stresses of jogging that are leading to the structural disorders, and so it's possible that the human anatomy can withstand these stresses. So (A) is an assumption the argument requires.
(C), however, isn't a required assumption, since we're told that veteran joggers and beginning runners suffer an equal percentage of injuries. Hope this helps!
