Strengthen: Studies reveal that most people

vinni.k wrote:OA is E

My doubt is C. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Conclusion is:- Health experts would have more success in encouraging people to eat wholesome foods if they emphasized
how flavorful those foods truly are rather than how nutritious they are.

(C) Health experts' attempts to encourage people to eat wholesome foods by emphasizing how nutritious those foods are
have been moderately successful.

The way I eliminated C:-
Having a moderate success by emphasizing the nutritious value of wholesome food doesn't mean that by emphasizing how
flavorful those foods truly are would have more success. There could be no success at all. It could weaken.
So, I eliminated C.

Correct me if my reasoning is wrong.

Thanks

Sure. You can generalize this logic: if an argument suggests that a plan will be effective if we do 'X,'knowing that doing 'Y' is moderately successful isn't going to be terribly helpful in evaluating 'X.'

Thank you David

Regards

Plan: Emphasize how flavorful wholesome foods are.
Goal: People will be encouraged to eat more wholesome foods.

E: In a study, subjects who were told that a given food was very flavorful were more likely to try the food and more likely to enjoy it then.
This option supports the conclusion that the proposed plan will induce people to eat more wholesome foods .

The correct answer is E.

Option C is about emphasizing how NUTRITIOUS wholesome foods are.
The plan is about emphasizing how FLAVORFUL wholesome foods are.
Since C has no bearing on the proposed plan, eliminate C.

Hi Vebal Experts,
Can you please share why Option A is wrong ?

@vinni.k: Is it an Official CR ? What's the source ?

RBBmba@2014 wrote:Hi Vebal Experts,
Can you please share why Option A is wrong ?

@vinni.k: Is it an Official CR ? What's the source ?

The argument is that the focus should be less on emphasizing the nutritional content of wholesome foods and more on emphasizing how flavorful such foods are. If A is true, and people already believe that wholesome foods are more flavorful, why would it help to emphasize this feature that people already believe the foods possess?

(A) weakens the argument. If people currently believe that nutritious foods are more flavorful, then a new campaign to show this won't help get more people to eat them.

(B) The health experts aren't trying to get people to eat the nutritious foods that aren't flavorful. The argument talks about advertising how flavorful the nutritious foods truly are. So B is strengthening the premise but not entirely the conclusion.

(C) No not strenthening.

(D) seems to weaken the argument.

(E) is the strengthener. The study tested exactly what the argument core talks about: are people more willing to try foods when they're told they are flavorful or nutritious? Yes, telling the people that the food is flavorful worked better.