Strengthen with Sufficient Premise Questions - - Question 13
In some countries, there is a free flow of information about infrastructure, agriculture, and industry, whereas in ot...
BenBradleyMay 3, 2023
frequent vs common
Originally chose answer choice B, then saw C and it looked good, and that was the wrong answer. In reading the explanation, it sounds like the reason C is wrong is because there is a difference between the word "frequent" and "common" and is there really that much of a difference in this case? When reading the definitions of the words, I'm not seeing the distinction.
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Hi, the difference isn't between frequent and common (which are almost identical, I'd argue that frequent is slightly stronger than common but they're close enough that they are effectively synonymous in this case and im just going to use them as synonyms), but between "frequent" and "more frequent." B says that one thing becomes more common as something else increases. This is describing a relationship where two things are correlated. C says that crises are common in absolute terms. B could be describing a scenario where something increased from .005 percent to .5 percent. C is describing something that is actually common.
