#9 - Governments have only one response to public criticism

[Luke Haqq]

Hi Hosseingold29!

Your point seems to make sense that "regulating" does not necessarily imply "responding."

We're given the following information in the first sentence: "Governments have only one response to public criticism of socially necessary services: regulation of the activity of providing those services." This can be diagrammed as:

Response Regulate

In other words, if the government is responding to public criticism of socially necessary services, then its response is regulation of the provision of those services (since regulation is its only response). So responding implies regulating.

[Dancingbambarina]

Would ""certinly
in the answer choice D also help disqualify it? Since it has only one response - it is not guaranteed to respond certainly

[Dave Killoran]

Yes, all we know from the stimulus is that the government is certain to respond to the child-care service criticism. In (D), we can't know for for sure that if public criticism is voiced strongly they will be certain to respond.

Thanks!

[Dancingbambarina]

Yes, all we know from the stimulus is that the government is certain to respond to the child-care service criticism. In (D), we can't know for for sure that if public criticism is voiced strongly they will be certain to respond.

Thanks!

Hi Dave,

Thanks again.

I am referring to the following: surely nowhere do we infer that the government certainly responds. Yes, their only response is x, but it does not say they 100% without question respond to that.

I am also just struggling with the Rhodopsin question specifically pertaining to the "normal" motion part. I understand proporionality was brought into the overall problem. But, "normal" motion was undertood by me to mean: A kind of motion suitable for the molecules to sometimes change shape. I guess this seems a little conditional in nature, but the point of confusion is that I am unsure how to tell EXACTLY that "normal" here can be extrapolated into a proportional idea instead of a BREED or KIND of idea; that is, NORMAl, or IRREGULAR, or SLOW, or FAST motion. Thanks so much

[Dave Killoran]

The author said they would, see the last line: "...the government is certain to respond."

Rhodopsin question can't be addressed here, we don't mix explanations. Please repost that there Also, no need to address this directly to me as there is no guarantee I'll personally respond. I tend not to answer questions in a thread when I've posted multiple times about the question already! I would also suggest phrasing your question there very carefully as there are 4 pages of back and forth already, and you want whoever answers to very clearly understand the exact nature of your question.

Thanks!