Weaken Questions - - Question 98

Doctors in Britain have long suspected that patients who wear tinted eyeglasses are abnormally prone to depression an...

JayDee8732 June 14, 2017

Could you explain

Why are C, D, E wrong also?

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Mehran June 28, 2017

@JayDee8732 here you go:

(C) weakens the argument by pointing out the unrepresentative sample, i.e. tests were not conducted in places such as western North America where the usual quality of light differs from that prevailing in Britain.

(D) weakens the argument by pointing out an alternate cause, i.e. that such glasses might be worn for fashion purposes in certain parts of the world.

(E) weakens the argument with counter evidence, i.e. other patients did not show this relationship between tinted glasses and depression or hypochondria.

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