Nursing schools cannot attract a greater number of able applicants than they currently do unless the problems of low ...
mehakhdrJuly 6, 2021
answer choice E. Or/and?
I did not chose E because of the “and” and the answer. Shouldn’t it be not PLWS OR not PASS —> not HQHC?
Please explain how in the video the instructor was able to conclude and from the transitive.
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I agree @Mehak! I just did the S&N drills and it's clear that with an either/or, one is made necessary and the other is made sufficient and the sufficient is negated, but that is not what she did in this last sentence of either/or. I wrote it as instructed, although it didn't even make logical sense with the statement and I also did not choose E because of it, although E was my logical choice. My S&N statements proved otherwise.
Jay-EtterJanuary 24, 2022
Our diagramming for this one: attract more applicants -> solve low wages and high stress problems don't increase applicants -> lower entrance standards or shortage of nurses Lowering entrance standards won't necessarily avert a shortage (I would write this when looking at the question for the first time but turns out we won't end up needing it) if shortage or lowered standards -> cannot maintain quality
For our question, they're asking us which can be inferred from the passage. E can be inferred, because if we don't fix low wages and high-stress working conditions, then we can take the contrapositive of our first diagrammed statement to know they won't attract more applicants. If they don't attract applicants, they will lower standards or there will be a shortage. If they lower standards or there is a shortage, they cannot maintain the high quality of health care. So E can be inferred.
Note that E says "Quality will not be maintained if don't solve problem of low wages AND don't solve stress". This is actually more than what we need to ensure that the quality cannot be maintained. If we fail to solve even one of these problems, the quality will fail to be maintained from the exact same reasoning as we stated above. However, if we know that BOTH aren't solved then its even more evidence we won't maintain quality. I think this is where you both got tripped up? Remember for inference questions we don't care about finding the one that uses the least logic possible, in other words a strong answer is fine, as long as we can definitely infer it.
