1000 CR test 2 question 19

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magical cook: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 484; Joined: Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:01 pmFollowed by: 1 member; Thanked: 2 times

by magical cook » Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:06 pm

Hi,

I thought the answer is B) (cause it focuses on NANB disease rather than other infections) ;However, the correct answer turn out to be A)

Do you know why A is better?

Blood banks will shortly start to screen all donors for NANB hepatitis. Although the new screening tests are estimated to disqualify up to 5 percent of all prospective blood donors, they will still miss two-thirds of donors carrying NANB hepatitis. Therefore, about 10 percent of actual donors will still supply NANB-contaminated blood.

The argument above depends on which of the following assumptions?

(A) Donors carrying NANB hepatitis do not, in a large percentage of cases, carry other infections for which reliable screening tests are routinely performed.
(B) Donors carrying NANB hepatitis do not, in a large percentage of cases, develop the disease themselves at any point.
(C) The estimate of the number of donors who would be disqualified by tests for NANB hepatitis is an underestimate.
(D) The incidence of NANB hepatitis is lower among the potential blood donors than it is in the population at large.
(E) The donors who will still supply NANB-contaminated blood will donate blood at the average frequency for all donors.

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rajesh_ctm: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 135; Joined: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:21 pm; Thanked: 2 times

by rajesh_ctm » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:48 am

First, let us try to understand what the argument is.

Blood banks will shortly start to screen all donors for NANB hepatitis.
Ok.

The new screening tests are estimated to disqualify up to 5 percent of all prospective blood donors.
So out of 100 prospective donors, 5 are estimated to be screened.

The new tests will miss two-thirds of donors carrying NANB hepatitis.
So, if they are catching five, they are not able to catch 10 others.

Therefore, about 10 percent of actual donors will still supply NANB-contaminated blood.
We already saw that 10 out of our 100 have NANB but they are not caught. So far so good.

Now let us see which of the given options are assumptions in this calculation.

(A) Donors carrying NANB hepatitis do not, in a large percentage of cases, carry other infections for which reliable screening tests are routinely performed.
Well, this is definitely an assumption. If a large percentage of people having NANB also carry other diseases, a large percentage of our 10 people are caught, so our number (10%) does not hold good.

(B) Donors carrying NANB hepatitis do not, in a large percentage of cases, develop the disease themselves at any point.
At any point they may develop the disease or may not. How does it affect our calculation? It doesn't.

(C) The estimate of the number of donors who would be disqualified by tests for NANB hepatitis is an underestimate.
Come on, all calculations are based on assumption that estimates are correct. Does any one ever assume that the underlying estimations are incorrect?

(D) The incidence of NANB hepatitis is lower among the potential blood donors than it is in the population at large.
Never assumed this! We never referred to the population at large while coming up with 10% number.

(E) The donors who will still supply NANB-contaminated blood will donate blood at the average frequency for all donors.
Frequency of donations, out of scope!

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magical cook: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 484; Joined: Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:01 pmFollowed by: 1 member; Thanked: 2 times

by magical cook » Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:26 am

Thanks rajesh for the explanation.

It's more clear that A) is better. But just FYI, my understanding for B) originally was "they may develop NANB hepatitise ven after screen was done and the result was negative." But I think the assumption is too far...

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khanshainur: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 300; Joined: Fri Aug 09, 2013 2:26 am

by khanshainur » Sat Apr 16, 2016 6:42 am

It seems to me that correct one is A.

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shuvamstriving: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 2; Joined: Mon Feb 02, 2015 11:17 pm

by shuvamstriving » Thu Jun 16, 2016 10:55 am

OA is A.

It says that If people who are carrying other infections other than blood contaminated NANB hepatitise cannot be detected by other reliable screening tests then the author's conclusion that 10% of actual blood donors will still cupply contaminated blood(because people carrying other diseases are undetected). Thus the conclusion holds true and A is the assumption.

We can also applying the negation technique here.So here it is.

If people carrying other infections are detected by other reliable screening tests then the number of people who will supply blood contaminated NANB hepatitis will be not be there.It is because they will be left out once they are detected carrying other infections.So the author's conclusion that 10% people of actual blood donors will still supply contaminated blood falls apart.

Hope I am clear.

Shuvam

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