#6 – Frankie: If jelly makers were given incentives to make a certain

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Complete Question Explanation

Method of Reasoning—Cause and Effect. The correct answer choice is (C).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (D):

Answer choice (E):

This explanation is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

[gwlsathelp]

Should the incentive that Frankie talks about be interpreted as high demand/popularity in Anna's rejection of Frankie's claim?

I chose B over C because I thought it fit Anna's method of reasoning better. How does B not occur in this Flawed Reasoning question? Let me know if that makes sense.

[Adam Tyson]

You're correct that the incentive Frankie discussed is a form of higher demand, gwlsathelp.

Answer B describes something like Anna saying "but actually, if you look at your evidence in a different way, Frankie, you'll see that it supports the opposite conclusion." There are a couple problems with that answer, and the biggest one is that Frankie never gave any evidence at all, so there is nothing for Anna to reinterpret. Frankie made an unsupported claim rather than an argument.

Rather than reinterpreting any evidence that Frankie offered, Anna offered new evidence in the form of a counterexample. That counterexample of what happened with cacao is meant to show that the results Frankie anticipated might not come to pass. Not a reinterpretation, but a new consideration.