A large survey of scientists found that almost all accept Wang's Law, and almost all know the results of the Brown-Ei...

Skylar on November 8, 2019

@lerondagates, thanks for your question!

Yes, you seem to be on the right track. (A) is correct because it clarifies that the scientists who accept Wang's Law and know the Brown-Eisler Experiment are generally aware that these contradict the Minsk Hypothesis. If we negate this and say that these scientists are unaware that their beliefs contradict the Minsk Hypothesis, we cannot accurately conclude that they would reject it. Perhaps they would accept both the Minsk Hypothesis and Wang's Law, since they don't know that they can't.

(B) is incorrect because of the phrase "almost all" as used in the passage. Since almost all scientists surveyed accepted Wang's Law and almost all scientists surveyed know the results of the Brown-Eisler Experiment, there has to be a large amount of overlap between the two groups. Again, this is because most of the group falls into each category and only a few do not. If these groups do not match up exactly, the outcome is not necessarily affected.

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