I was down to A and C, and chose C instead. Still unsure which lines exactly define "community". I know usually with this kind of Q, you look at the previous sentence but "medical experts" in the last sentence caught my attention instead.
Is C wrong because it says "who share opinions that differ significantly from those of other groups? Now I'm thinking, who are those "other groups" anyways.. if so, would this have been the correct answer if it just said "who share opinions that different significantly"?
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Re: Q19
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Answer expected in lines/paragraph:
We may need other lines for contextual help, but this question is directly asking what the term "community" REFERS to. So line 38-42 is our focus.
Any prephrase?
The way I understood this sentence the first time I read it was, "Sometimes doctors / medical scientists / experts disagree about which of two drugs is better." I would think "the community" is pretty much the group of experts concerned with making/evaluating/prescribing drugs.
Correct answer:
A
Answer choice analysis:
A) Sure? I mean this is probably true of the experts who analyze the effectiveness of drugs. The common set of problems is "how to treat all these ilnesses" and the shared body of knowledge is "medical science and clinical tests".
B) No reason to think these people are geographically near each other
C) EXPERTS share opinions that differ significantly from those of other groups? It's possible, but I'm not sure where we'd get that. If experts agree on something (cigarettes cause cancer), then generally other groups share that opinion. When experts disagree among themselves (as we were talking about in lines 38-42), then this answer would have little meaning. If they disagree internally as experts, DO they share opinions?
D) I would say their association with one another is primarily based on their similar professional field: developing / evaluating / prescribing medicine. Within that field are similar ethical values, but that's not what these experts' association is BASED on.
E) Random. This is a community of people with the same research methods but different disciplines? No, they're all in the medical discipline.
Takeaway/Pattern: This is a total Wrong-to-Right answer. The other ones just aren't close. We can make (A) work, because medical experts have a common goal: use science to improve or sustain people's health. So their focus and body of knowledge is shared.
#officialexplanation
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Answer expected in lines/paragraph:
We may need other lines for contextual help, but this question is directly asking what the term "community" REFERS to. So line 38-42 is our focus.
Any prephrase?
The way I understood this sentence the first time I read it was, "Sometimes doctors / medical scientists / experts disagree about which of two drugs is better." I would think "the community" is pretty much the group of experts concerned with making/evaluating/prescribing drugs.
Correct answer:
A
Answer choice analysis:
A) Sure? I mean this is probably true of the experts who analyze the effectiveness of drugs. The common set of problems is "how to treat all these ilnesses" and the shared body of knowledge is "medical science and clinical tests".
B) No reason to think these people are geographically near each other
C) EXPERTS share opinions that differ significantly from those of other groups? It's possible, but I'm not sure where we'd get that. If experts agree on something (cigarettes cause cancer), then generally other groups share that opinion. When experts disagree among themselves (as we were talking about in lines 38-42), then this answer would have little meaning. If they disagree internally as experts, DO they share opinions?
D) I would say their association with one another is primarily based on their similar professional field: developing / evaluating / prescribing medicine. Within that field are similar ethical values, but that's not what these experts' association is BASED on.
E) Random. This is a community of people with the same research methods but different disciplines? No, they're all in the medical discipline.
Takeaway/Pattern: This is a total Wrong-to-Right answer. The other ones just aren't close. We can make (A) work, because medical experts have a common goal: use science to improve or sustain people's health. So their focus and body of knowledge is shared.
#officialexplanation
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