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Atypical disease

by vikram4689 » Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:15 pm
Medical researchers discovered that people with an atypical form of diabetes also have a disproportionately high rate of virus V infection. They concluded that virus V triggers the mutation of classic diabetes into its atypical form.
The researchers' conclusion depends on which of the following assumptions?

(A)The longer the length of time an individual is infected with virus V, the greater the risk that individual will develop atypical diabetes.
(B)Atypical diabetes is a symptom of virus V.
(C)Individuals not infected with virus V cannot develop atypical diabetes.
(D)Atypical diabetes does not predispose people to infection from virus V.
(E)Specialized treatment for virus V infection will be more effective than the standard course of virus V treatment for people with atypical diabetes.



what is wrong with C. I think both C & D are CORRECT
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by kolaalok » Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:08 pm
IMO A.
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by Birottam Dutta » Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:11 am
Actually C is just saying what is already concluded by the doctors. The doctors conclude that the virus causes the daibetes. So C just says it in a different way that without this virus the daibetes cannot be developed.

But the assumption we are looking for is the one which says that the daibetes does not cause this virus to be present in the body. This is exactly what D says and so D is correct.

A is not correct because the passage says nothing about the length of time the virus affects a person and so is out of context!
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by confuse mind » Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:58 am
Can someone explain me why the answer is not B?
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by vikram4689 » Sun Jun 10, 2012 4:57 am
Figured out the reason:
D eliminates the possibility of reverse causation and VALIDATES conclusion. C is NOT an valid assumption but is a STRENGTHENER. Lets see how,
Argument says X and Y were found in patients and doctors concluded X -> Y. lets says there are Two valid assumptions:
a) Y does not cause X ( mentioned in D, and negating it, Y->X, INVALIDATES the conclusion)
b) Y cannot be caused by any other element Z ( mentioned in C) i.e. Z does not cause Y. but that point is not debated by argument as argument does not say X is THE ONLY cause of Y. Now see C is strengthener because it eliminates some other possibilities that could cause Y, thus making it more likely OR increasing probability of X -> Y. Also try to negate C and it says "Individuals not infected with virus V CAN develop atypical diabetes." i.e. there can be some other causes for Y. So what conclusion still holds as X can be one of the causes.

B is not correct because Y is a symptom of X tells us that X happened first which might seem correct but SYMPTOM is NOT equal to EFFECT. SYMPTOMS may/may not appear but in CAUSAL relationship EFFECT is bound to appear.
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