- Thu Jan 04, 2024 6:41 pm
#104686
Hi Zoe,
This question is asking for a statement that the author of Passage B would be more likely to agree with than the author of Passage A. In other words, you're really looking for an answer that the author of Passage B would agree with but the author of Passage A would not agree with.
The problem with Answer D, "Scientific investigation has provided no evidence that extrasensory perception and telepathy are real" is that both authors would agree with this statement.
While the author of Passage A believes that paranormal phenomena may exist, the author states several times that it has not been proven by science. In fact, in the second paragraph of Passage A, the author states "Paranormal phenomena may exist but be inaccessible to scientific investigation." Earlier in the same paragraph, the author specifically mentions extrasensory perception and telepathy, "Scientific attempts to study extrasensory
perception and telepathy have failed." When the author states that the attempts to study these phenomena have failed, that means that they haven't proven these phenomena to exist. Later the author of Passage A states that "This would explain why paranormal phenomena are not observable in well-controlled scientific experiments."
Answer E, on the other hand, does state a difference of opinion between the two authors. The author of Passage B would agree that the same methods (meaning scientific methods) used in physics are appropriate for all human behavior. That is why the author of Passage B dismisses paranormal phenomena because it hasn't been proven scientifically. The author of Passage A disagrees with this statement and believes that science is just one of many independent sources of knowledge. In other words, the author of Passage A believes that certain areas of knowledge (such as paranormal phenomena) are better explained not by science but by other sources of evidence such as anecdotal evidence.
