Q2 - Edgar: Nurses who have been specially

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Question Type:
ID the Disagreement

Stimulus Breakdown:
E: Trained nurses should be able to administer anesthesia w/o a doctor there, since anethesia is much safer these days. J: Nurses get great training, but only a doctor has enough training to handle surprise emergencies.

Answer Anticipation:
Re-read Edgar's claims and ask if Janet argued the opposite. Did Janet argue "trained nurses should NOT be allowed to anesthetize w/o a doctor"? Yeah, seemingly. She pointed out that only docs have the training to handle an emergency. Did Janet argue "anesthesia has NOT gotten safer over the las couple decades"? No, she didn't discuss that. So we can prephrase that we need something like "whether or not a trained nurse should be allowed to anesthetize w/o a doctor".

Correct Answer:
E

Answer Choice Analysis:
(A) Close, but it's not about whether nurses should EVER be allowed to anesthetize -- both of them would agree that it's okay for a nurse to anesthetize when a doctor is present. It's about whether nurses should be allowed to do so when a doctor is absent.

(B) Edgar never talks about emergencies.

(C) Neither person can be inferred to be arguing that nurses SHOULD get more training. In fact, they both seem to agree that nurses are well-trained.

(D) Janet never talks about whether safety has improved.

(E) YES, janet is arguing that doctors should always be present, while edgar is arguing that doctors shouldn't be required to be present.

Takeaway/Pattern: This one was written somewhat easily, in terms of finding the disagreement. Edgar makes two claims, and Janet is clearly pushing back against the first one, not the second one. What will thwart most people on this problem is falling for (A), which sounds close to the idea we have in our head. They put (A) up front and wrote it in active voice, while putting (E) at the bottom and writing it in passive voice, to make the former so tempting that we get anchor bias and pick it without thinking critically about its precise wording. Remember, for any answer we pick: we need to be able to infer that one of the two people would disagree with that idea. To pick (A), we'd have to infer that one of these two people thinks that "nurses should NEVER be allowed anesthetize a patient". That sort of categorical position is unlikely for anyone to take.

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