Sixty adults were asked to keep a diary of their meals, including what they consumed, when, and in the company of how...
Tyler808January 27, 2022
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I choose D because D states "The meals that were most carefully prepared and most attractively served tended to be those at which alcoholic beverages were consumed." We have to properly draw some assumptions to find our answer choices and when I read D it sounded kind of like a fine dining meal which most times you get less food but the quality goes up. And being that you get less food, that may decrease your calorie intake. I am just figuring why D is incorrect?
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We are looking for an answer choice that does not resolve the paradox that people tend to eat more when they are also consuming alcohol.
D tells us that meals that are carefully prepared and attractively served tend to be served with alcohol. Both of these thing (careful preparation and good presentation) would likely make one want to eat more. Let's say you are given two meals and told to eat as much of you want of both, or just one. One of these meals is exquisitely prepared with fine ingredients by world class chefs, and then expertly plated and made instagram-able. The other meal is lukewarm oatmeal on a slice of stale bread in an unidentifiable sauce- all served on a clearly dirty plate. It is fair to assume that everyone would choose to eat more of the first meal.
That is to say that the more carefully prepared and attractively served a meal is, the more we would choose to eat of it. This explains why people tend to eat more at meals when alcohol is served, because those meals tend to be better and people eat more of good food than they do of bad food.
I think what you did was to bring in outside information. Sure, it is possible that a well prepared meal will have smaller portions, but there is not reason that this must be the case. Even if this were so, one could simply order more food like sides and appetizers. Regardless, we are not allowed to bring in outside knowledge to make assumptions about portion size. The stimulus does not say that these good meals are smaller, so we have no reason to think they are.
Interestingly enough, E is correct exactly because it expects us to bring in outside information about the relative ability of carbs, fats, and protein to make a diner feel full. Just because one has relatively more carbs than protein or fat does not mean that one will necessarily eat more. We may think this is true from personal experience, but the answer choice does not give us enough information to resolve the discrepancy.
