Critical Reasoning

Hospital executive: At a recent conference on nonprofit management, several computer experts maintained that the most significant threat faced by large institutions such as universities and hospitals is unauthorized access to confidential data. In light of this testimony, we should make the protection of our clients’ confidentiality our highest priority.

The hospital executive’s argument is most vulnerable to which one of the following objections?

(A) The argument confuses the causes of a problem with the appropriate solutions to that problem.
(B) The argument relies on the testimony of experts whose expertise is not shown to be sufficiently broad to support their general claim.
(C) The argument assumes that a correlation between two phenomena is evidence that one is the cause of the other.
(D) The argument draws a general conclusion about a group based on data about an unrepresentative sample of that group.
(E) The argument infers that a property belonging to large institutions belongs to all institutions

Was confused between A and C but will go for A

IMO D is the appropriate choice here. Expert talk about large institutions and hospital exec draws conclusion about his hospital citing what the experts said in the conference.

avenus wrote:Hospital executive: At a recent conference on nonprofit management, several computer experts maintained that the most significant threat faced by large institutions such as universities and hospitals is unauthorized access to confidential data. In light of this testimony, we should make the protection of our clients’ confidentiality our highest priority.

The hospital executive’s argument is most vulnerable to which one of the following objections?

(A) The argument confuses the causes of a problem with the appropriate solutions to that problem.
(B) The argument relies on the testimony of experts whose expertise is not shown to be sufficiently broad to support their general claim.
(C) The argument assumes that a correlation between two phenomena is evidence that one is the cause of the other.
(D) The argument draws a general conclusion about a group based on data about an unrepresentative sample of that group.
(E) The argument infers that a property belonging to large institutions belongs to all institutions

IMO D . Please post the OA.

m not able to decide between A and C .
definitely not D cos conference is for conference includes the data for large inst. such as unversities and hospitals

Dear avenus why dont u post OA with ur questions.

I would go for A

avenus wrote:Hospital executive: At a recent conference on nonprofit management, several computer experts maintained that the most significant threat faced by large institutions such as universities and hospitals is unauthorized access to confidential data. In light of this testimony, we should make the protection of our clients’ confidentiality our highest priority.

The hospital executive’s argument is most vulnerable to which one of the following objections?

(A) The argument confuses the causes of a problem with the appropriate solutions to that problem.
(B) The argument relies on the testimony of experts whose expertise is not shown to be sufficiently broad to support their general claim.
(C) The argument assumes that a correlation between two phenomena is evidence that one is the cause of the other.
(D) The argument draws a general conclusion about a group based on data about an unrepresentative sample of that group.
(E) The argument infers that a property belonging to large institutions belongs to all institutions

A - Not great but leave it there
B - not true - no where stated
C - What's the cause ? Not stated
D - Not true whatsoever
E - Even if was true, doesn't matter.

Keep in mind that the only two arguments made is

1. Most significant threat = security.
2. Highest priority should be protection.

The assumption here is that since it is the most significant threat, therefore it should be the highest priority. There is a clear logic flaw there because just because something might be the greatest threat - it doesn't mean a hospital's highest priority should be to mitigate that threat.

Therefore - A.

Hi there,

OA is B

I would go for A as well. It seems the best and safest among the rest