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by komal » Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:25 pm
A social worker surveyed 200 women who recently had given birth to their first child. Half of these women had chosen to give birth in a hospital or obstetric clinic; the other half had chosen to give birth at home under the care of certified midwives. Of the 100 births that occurred at home, only five had presented any substantial complications, whereas 17 of the hospital births had required extra attention because of complications during delivery. The social worker concluded from this survey that the home is actually a safer environment in which to give birth than is a hospital or clinic.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously calls the social worker's conclusion above into question?

(A) All of the women in the study who were diagnosed as having a high possibility of delivery complications elected to give birth in a hospital.

(B) Many obstetricians discourage their patients from giving birth in their own homes.

(C) Women who give birth in their own homes tend to experience less stress during labor and delivery than do those who deliver in hospitals.

(D) Women who give birth in hospitals and clinics often have shorter periods of labor than do those who give birth at home.

(E) Pregnant doctors prefer giving birth in a hospital.

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by Osirus@VeritasPrep » Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:22 pm
A- Correct

B- This is irrelevant. Whether this is true or not has no bearings on whether home birthing is safer

C- This is the opposite answer. This strengthens the argument

D- Labor time is irrelevant. The argument is about safety and reduction in complications

E- This is just ridiculous.
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by shashank.ism » Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:18 am
Which of the following, if true, most seriously calls the social worker's conclusion above into question?

what does calls means here ..is it in opposite sense or favoring sense.. I'm a bit confused about it.
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by harsh.champ » Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:19 am
shashank.ism wrote:Which of the following, if true, most seriously calls the social worker's conclusion above into question?

what does calls means here ..is it in opposite sense or favoring sense.. I'm a bit confused about it.
A social worker surveyed 200 women who recently had given birth to their first child. Half of these women had chosen to give birth in a hospital or obstetric clinic; the other half had chosen to give birth at home under the care of certified midwives. Of the 100 births that occurred at home, only five had presented any substantial complications, whereas 17 of the hospital births had required extra attention because of complications during delivery. The social worker concluded from this survey that the home is actually a safer environment in which to give birth than is a hospital or clinic.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously calls the social worker's conclusion above into question?

(A) All of the women in the study who were diagnosed as having a high possibility of delivery complications elected to give birth in a hospital.

(B) Many obstetricians discourage their patients from giving birth in their own homes.

(C) Women who give birth in their own homes tend to experience less stress during labor and delivery than do those who deliver in hospitals.

(D) Women who give birth in hospitals and clinics often have shorter periods of labor than do those who give birth at home.

(E) Pregnant doctors prefer giving birth in a hospital.





Over here , you can see that the meaning of "calls " is that it is questioning the social worker's conclusion.
Maybe the social worker has only considered half the facts and reporting the distorted truth.

So,you can say either neutral or in the questioning mode.

As for the questions, we se that if we consider A then most of the complications that could have been there at home is already sorted out.In the event , that these women had decided to give birth in their own homes ,we could have got a totally different scenario. So , the answer would be A.
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by shashank.ism » Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:40 am
A social worker surveyed 200 women who recently had given birth to their first child. Half of these women had chosen to give birth in a hospital or obstetric clinic; the other half had chosen to give birth at home under the care of certified midwives. Of the 100 births that occurred at home, only five had presented any substantial complications, whereas 17 of the hospital births had required extra attention because of complications during delivery. The social worker concluded from this survey that the home is actually a safer environment in which to give birth than is a hospital or clinic.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously calls the social worker's conclusion above into question?

(A) All of the women in the study who were diagnosed as having a high possibility of delivery complications elected to give birth in a hospital.

(B) Many obstetricians discourage their patients from giving birth in their own homes.

(C) Women who give birth in their own homes tend to experience less stress during labor and delivery than do those who deliver in hospitals.

(D) Women who give birth in hospitals and clinics often have shorter periods of labor than do those who give birth at home.

(E) Pregnant doctors prefer giving birth in a hospital.

OA A
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This question seems to be very confusing, and none of the option is directly pointing out to the social worker's conclusion.
so we start eliminating the options.
starting with (E) .. This option is has no relation with the question. we are not talking about pregnant doctors, but only talking about pregnant women. I don't know what this option signify.

(D) signifies hospital is safer but it is not related to social worker conclusion.

(C) is somewhat showing some relation with social worker's conclusion as it says women experience less stress during labor and delivery. so it can be an option.

(B) It has also no relation with the conclusion. This statement is talking about something else.

(A) might be true in context to whole paragraph, but we are talking about the social worker's conclusion. so it is not the ans.

Hence I will go for (C) but its exactly not correct.

I think some instructor should help us out here..
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by mmon » Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:42 pm
C actually supports the social workers survey. less stress -> less complication.
on otherhand it explains the reason why things go south at hospital -stress .

we need to call social worker's survey into question - thus finding their data itself is skewed and not good reprsentation would be enough to doubt their conclusion.
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by hrishi19884 » Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:57 pm
shashank.ism wrote:
A social worker surveyed 200 women who recently had given birth to their first child. Half of these women had chosen to give birth in a hospital or obstetric clinic; the other half had chosen to give birth at home under the care of certified midwives. Of the 100 births that occurred at home, only five had presented any substantial complications, whereas 17 of the hospital births had required extra attention because of complications during delivery. The social worker concluded from this survey that the home is actually a safer environment in which to give birth than is a hospital or clinic.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously calls the social worker's conclusion above into question?

(A) All of the women in the study who were diagnosed as having a high possibility of delivery complications elected to give birth in a hospital.

(B) Many obstetricians discourage their patients from giving birth in their own homes.

(C) Women who give birth in their own homes tend to experience less stress during labor and delivery than do those who deliver in hospitals.

(D) Women who give birth in hospitals and clinics often have shorter periods of labor than do those who give birth at home.

(E) Pregnant doctors prefer giving birth in a hospital.

OA A
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This question seems to be very confusing, and none of the option is directly pointing out to the social worker's conclusion.
so we start eliminating the options.
starting with (E) .. This option is has no relation with the question. we are not talking about pregnant doctors, but only talking about pregnant women. I don't know what this option signify.

(D) signifies hospital is safer but it is not related to social worker conclusion.

(C) is somewhat showing some relation with social worker's conclusion as it says women experience less stress during labor and delivery. so it can be an option.

(B) It has also no relation with the conclusion. This statement is talking about something else.

(A) might be true in context to whole paragraph, but we are talking about the social worker's conclusion. so it is not the ans.

Hence I will go for (C) but its exactly not correct.

I think some instructor should help us out here..
- This is what the explanation given in OA ......hope you agree to it.

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A social worker surveys 100 women who chose to give birth in a hospital, and 100 who chose to have their babies at home. The social worker concludes that the home is the safer environment in which to give birth, based entirely on the fact that in the sample studied, there were more cases of complications in the hospital. She assumes that the environment was responsible for the number of complications, and overlooks any other possible reason for the survey results. (A) weakens the argument by providing such an alternate reason for the statistical disparity: Women who were at high risk for complications all decided to give birth in a hospital. In other words, the study was skewed; the women in the two groups (the 100 who gave birth in the home and the 100 who gave birth in the hospital) were not equally likely to have complications to begin with. (A) is correct.
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