Tough one from the mocks...Disease Accuracy

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Tough one from the mocks...Disease Accuracy

by ern5231 » Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:17 pm
Guys I got this question in a mock test today at my prep classes. This one REALLY troubled my mind so I took a note of it during the exam. Here is the problem(pardon me for any grammatical mistakes :-) )

In a test of a certain disease, sickness can be detected with atleast 95% accuracy since out of 100 people who were detected sick were actually sick. If sickness does not occur, it can still be detected with a 95% accuracy since out of 100 people 95 were detected to be free of this disease and only 5 people turned out to be sick. A person was detected to have this sickness so he really must be sick.

Which of the following, if true, weakens the argument?

1) Only fat people get such a sickness

2) Other features of this disease have not been tested

3) This type of testing started lately

4) Under normal circumstances, only two people are sick out of 10,000

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by crackgmat007 » Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:04 pm
By POE, I boiled down to 4. Do you have optio 5 too?

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by ern5231 » Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:00 am
option 5 was there but I dont recollect. It was out of scope. Don't care about that

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by DREAM GMAT » Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:34 am
IMO it should be choice 4, since all the other choices are out of scope.

Choice 4 calls the data provided in stimulus in to question.

Hope i am correct.

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