Q3 - If there is a crisis

[CharlesT757]

For a #3 question, I struggled with this one. While (D) is a safe answer, I am not sure that it MUST BE TRUE from the stimulus. The language in (D) "much worthwhile knowledge seems stretching it. Anyone have other thoughts to persuade me that this MUST BE TRUE?

[Laura Damone]

Sorry for the delayed response here. We had a technical difficulty that caused your post to be mistakenly categorized and it slipped through the cracks!

The stimulus establishes that one can obtain "these credentials" - degrees and certificates - without ever learning much of value. Taken abstractly, you can have X in the absence of Y. From this we can conclude that X doesn't guarantee Y. If it did, you couldn't have X without Y. Thus, it must be true that degrees and certificates don't guarantee that a person has acquired much worthwhile knowledge.

Make sense? The ability to have one thing without another always means that the first thing doesn't guarantee the second.

Hope this helps!