PrepTest 124, Section 1, Question 10
Public health experts have waged a long-standing educational(58 more words not shown)
Which one of the following,(6 more words not shown)
- AThe campaign to(22 more words not shown)
- BSome ways of(11 more words not shown)
- CPeople who find(21 more words not shown)
- DPeople who dislike(19 more words not shown)
- EThe only way(34 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
What if the campaign just didn't reach the right people?
Its failure could have several explanations. Perhaps the message was poorly communicated, or it mostly reached people who already eat vegetables. Perhaps preparing vegetables takes more effort than grabbing another food. Disliking the taste is a plausible explanation, but the disappointing results don't establish it as the explanation.
Even if taste is the obstacle, would a recipe solve it? Someone might agree that the new spinach recipe tastes better and still choose chicken nuggets. Making a vegetable more appetizing isn't automatically enough to change what someone eats.
What we’re looking for
We're asked to strengthen the recommendation to include preparation advice. I'd like evidence that this information would make the people who dislike vegetables actually eat more of them. That would connect the proposed change in the campaign with the change in behavior we're trying to produce.
Working the answers
- A
People who already love vegetables are not evidence that preparation advice would change the diets of people who dislike them. Perhaps those vegetable lovers already eat plenty and have little reason to increase their intake. A doesn't show that the recommended addition would improve the campaign.
- B
This raises a concern about the health benefits of some preparation methods. It doesn't help establish that the revised campaign would get people to eat more vegetables. Be careful about the goal: a tastier preparation could increase consumption even if it reduced some cancer-prevention benefit. Either way, B gives us no support for the proposed campaign's effectiveness.
- C
This compares two descriptions of people's current preferences. Someone who likes a few vegetables could also dislike most vegetables, so these aren't even necessarily separate groups. More importantly, the comparison doesn't tell us what happens when people learn new ways to prepare vegetables. That is the change the recommendation relies on.
- DCorrect
The people who dislike most vegetables would eat many more if they knew how to make them more appetizing. That's the connection we wanted. Providing the proposed information would address an obstacle and change consumption, rather than merely making the campaign sound more appealing.
We don't have to resolve every possible reason the old campaign failed. D gives a direct reason the proposed addition would improve its results.
- E
Being the only possible route to success doesn't tell us how promising that route is. A long shot can still be the only shot available. E says success requires people to find the vegetables appetizing; it doesn't establish that including preparation information will achieve that change or cause people to eat more. D directly supports the proposed method's effectiveness.
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