Strengthen Questions

[rameday]

In a strengthen question when faced with the choice between an answer that strengthens a little bit and an answer that strengthens it a lot, i assume you pick the latter over the former?

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[Robert Carroll]

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One answer choice will always Strengthen the argument, and the others will fail to Strengthen it. If it seems like an answer choice strengthens a little, re-examine it - it probably actually supports a different conclusion from that in the stimulus, or actually contains irrelevant information. Sometimes an answer will appear to strengthen because it would do so if new information was added, but if the new information isn't in the answer choice itself (and clearly it's not in the stimulus!), then the answer choice alone isn't sufficient to strengthen the argument.

In short, only one answer will provide what you need.

Robert Carroll