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Hi Claudia,
Thanks for your question!
Answer choice (D) conflates two of the logic chains in a way that reaches a conclusion unsupported by the facts in the prompt.
From the stimulus, we know that:
Effective Teachers
Eccentric
and that every
Effective Teacher
Good Communicator
However, we don't have anything that can connect "Lecturers who are good communicators" with anything else. The facts in the stimulus establish that every effective teacher is a good communicator, but it doesn't follow that every good communicator is an effective teacher.
There could be some good communicators who are not effective teachers. If that's the case -- that is, if we're dealing with a pool of lecturers that are good communicators but not effective teachers -- then we cannot make any deductions about whether these lecturers are eccentric or not. We only have information about eccentricity as it relates to effective teachers.
Hope this helps!
Athena Dalton
Thanks for your question!
Answer choice (D) conflates two of the logic chains in a way that reaches a conclusion unsupported by the facts in the prompt.
From the stimulus, we know that:
Effective Teachers
Eccentricand that every
Effective Teacher
Good CommunicatorHowever, we don't have anything that can connect "Lecturers who are good communicators" with anything else. The facts in the stimulus establish that every effective teacher is a good communicator, but it doesn't follow that every good communicator is an effective teacher.
There could be some good communicators who are not effective teachers. If that's the case -- that is, if we're dealing with a pool of lecturers that are good communicators but not effective teachers -- then we cannot make any deductions about whether these lecturers are eccentric or not. We only have information about eccentricity as it relates to effective teachers.
Hope this helps!
Athena Dalton