#4 - Most antidepressant drugs cause weight gain.

[Dave Killoran]

Hi Barath,

Those are the same cl;classification--we use MBT as the overarching classification for questions in either the MBT or MSS grouping.

Thanks!

[holy115]

Hi,

I have a small follow-up question. Would changing the answer choice as below make them suitable as an answer?

(A) A physician should not prescribe such antidepressant drugs for a patient if that patient's primary objective is to not be overweight.

(E) Patients taking such antidepressant drugs should diet if they want to reduce their weight.

[Jeff Wren]

Hi holy,

The answer to both is still no.

Be very careful about answer choices making recommendations about what anyone "should" do. The stimulus provides facts and you're looking for an answer that is factual in nature, not someone's opinion on what should or shouldn't be done.

Neither of those hypothetical answers directly follows from the stimulus and would therefore be wrong.

For instance,

For A, it's quite possible that in some cases, a physician should prescribe an antidepressant despite the patient's primary objective because that would actually be best for the patient. (In other words, patients don't necessarily know what is in their best interests in terms of their health.)

For E, even if patients taking antidepressants want to lose weight, there may be situations where that is not what they should do. (One example would be someone suffering from anorexia who wants to lose weight but actually is fact underweight/malnourished.)