PrepTest 115, Section 1, Question 16

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Donna Haraway's Primate Visions is the most ambitious(431 more words not shown)

The passage suggests that Haraway(19 more words not shown)

Reading the passage

My first thought is Haraway's challenge to the separation between scientist and animal: both contribute to knowledge, though in different ways.

But that doesn't yet give me a prediction about what observations scientists will make. We need a more specific connection to the text.

A
Training isn't discussed as a way to make all researchers record similar observations. We have no support for that promised uniformity.
B
Nothing ranks primatologists above other animal researchers in accuracy or sensitivity. Being interested in primates doesn't itself supply that advantage.
C
Animals being more like us might sound as though they would be easier to understand. But the stated connection is to projecting our own beliefs, not to more accurate or sensitive observations.
D
Correct
This sends us back to the opening for a more precise idea. Primates “seem so much like ourselves” that they provide ready material for scientists' projections. That explains why researchers studying them would be especially likely to interpret behavior through their own beliefs, compared with researchers studying other animals. It is the reason given for primatology being particularly useful for these themes.
E
This compares two kinds of field behavior by scientists: taking a more active or passive role. The active-knower/passive-object distinction isn't that comparison, and we aren't told the two methods produce similar observations.

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