The author argues that exercise is not a waste of time because it benefits one' health--pretty hard to see what one has to do with another!

Anyways, we can weaken the argument by finding a choice that says exercise does in fact waste useful time. That's what choice B does. It tells us that people who stopped exercising are now using the formerly exercise-time in productive ways.

Choice A is a 180. It tells us that, through exericse, people can in fact gain time. This strengthens the author's argument.

The rest of the choices are outside the scope as they do not relate to whether or not exercise wastes time.

Thanks

OA: B

Hi Test Luv,
The first line says Regular exercise -> waste of time
Author says Regular exercise -> good health

The above statement gives two different point of views for regular exercise and question asks to weaken the argument meaning weaken what author says

so shouldn't choice C weaken the argument as it says people with good health do exercise, because if we take B as an answer than it strengthen the author's argument that when people stop regular exercise they won't have good health

Testluv wrote:The author argues that exercise is not a waste of time because it benefits one' health--pretty hard to see what one has to do with another!

Anyways, we can weaken the argument by finding a choice that says exercise does in fact waste useful time. That's what choice B does. It tells us that people who stopped exercising are now using the formerly exercise-time in productive ways.

Choice A is a 180. It tells us that, through exericse, people can in fact gain time. This strengthens the author's argument.

The rest of the choices are outside the scope as they do not relate to whether or not exercise wastes time.

Is the conclusion 'this claim is born of laziness' or 'this claim is born of laziness , in light of the overwhelming evidence that regular exercise improves one's health'?

If it is the second one , should not C be the answer as it shows: it's not that exercise causes health, but it is that only healthy people do exercise.

Pl. comment.

I selected C because it is weakening the conclusion/premise saying that people, only with good health, exercise regularly.

Why can't be 'D'????

ansumania wrote:

Testluv wrote:The author argues that exercise is not a waste of time because it benefits one' health--pretty hard to see what one has to do with another!

Anyways, we can weaken the argument by finding a choice that says exercise does in fact waste useful time. That's what choice B does. It tells us that people who stopped exercising are now using the formerly exercise-time in productive ways.

Choice A is a 180. It tells us that, through exericse, people can in fact gain time. This strengthens the author's argument.

The rest of the choices are outside the scope as they do not relate to whether or not exercise wastes time.

Is the conclusion 'this claim is born of laziness' or 'this claim is born of laziness , in light of the overwhelming evidence that regular exercise improves one's health'?

If it is the second one , should not C be the answer as it shows: it's not that exercise causes health, but it is that only healthy people do exercise.

Pl. comment.

testluv,

will you pl. answer my query? since the conclusion is based on the evidence , sould not anything that counter the statistics weaken the argument?

Hi,

Some people claim that exercise is a waste of time.

The author says the people only claim that because they are lazy.

In other words, the author's conclusion is that exercise is not a waste of time (and people who think it is a waste of time are lazy).

Now, in order to weaken the argument, we need a fact that makes the conclusion less likely to come true. Because the author is arguing that exercise isn't a waste of time, we need a choice that says exercise IS a waste of time. That's what choice B says. (A choice that suggested exercise IS NOT healthy would have also weakened the argument).

If it is the second one , should not C be the answer as it shows: it's not that exercise causes health, but it is that only healthy people do exercise.

First of all choice C deals with "likely" not "only". But that's minor; let's set that aside.

If only healthy people do exercise, doesn't that mean that NO unhealthy person exercises? Or that ALL unhealthy people DON'T exercise. If only healthy people exercise, then isn't the author's argument strengthened rather than weakened? Choice C is a 180.

Hi testluv,
Could you please tell me why 'd' is wrong???'D' also says that exercise is not needed...

muralithe1 wrote:Hi testluv,
Could you please tell me why 'd' is wrong???'D' also says that exercise is not needed...

Choice D says that DAILY exercise is not needed. Frequency of exercise is outside the scope.