PrepTest 101, Section 1, Question 4
To many developers of technologies that affect public(450 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(25 more words not shown)
- AA skydiver checks(20 more words not shown)
- BA person decides(17 more words not shown)
- CA homeowner who(19 more words not shown)
- DA person who(20 more words not shown)
- EA group of(22 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Go back to the particular studies named in the question. They describe people ignoring familiar dangers while getting upset about unusual, unlikely ones. We need both halves: too little concern about one risk and too much concern about another.
What we’re looking for
Someone who is careful about everything wouldn't fit. Neither would a person taking one sensible precaution. Look for the mismatch in the same person's behavior.
Working the answers
- A
Checking a parachute addresses a danger the answer itself describes. There is no second, more serious risk the skydiver ignores.
- B
Quitting smoking to reduce lung damage doesn't show the pattern of ignoring one danger while exaggerating another.
- C
The homeowner takes precautions against two risks. We need the contrast between neglecting a risk and worrying about another, not concern about both.
- DCorrect
The driver ignores the familiar danger of reckless driving while worrying about the much less likely event of a meteorite hitting the house. This supplies both halves of the pattern.
- E
We don't know that the concern about the waste dump is exaggerated. More decisively, this gives us only one risk: there's no separate everyday danger the townspeople are ignoring.
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