Methods of Reasoning Questions - - Question 9

Like a number of other articles, Ian Raghnall's article relied on a recent survey in which over half the couples appl...

TomSteele October 25, 2021

How is this not E?

How is this not E ? Are they not not describing it wrong? Very, very confused

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TomSteele October 25, 2021

I don't understand, this is one I genuinely disagree with.

Jay-Etter January 24, 2022

Hi Tom,
The issue with E here is that the author is just saying maybe it's other problems that manifest in financial terms so the couples wrote "money". However, this doesn't necessarily imply that the couples CANNOT accurately describe their own problems. Maybe, for example, a problem is emotional connection but they don't want to write that for whatever reason (maybe they're embarrassed or something) so they write "money" instead.

However, B captures the idea here without running into the problem about accuracy. The alternative explanation is that some of the couples wrote "money" when it was really about other underlying problems. And this is what (and all that) the argument is saying.