PrepTest 133, Section 3, Question 13
Like a genetic profile, a functional magnetic-resonance image(52 more words not shown)
The statements above, if true,(8 more words not shown)
- AIt is not(11 more words not shown)
- BAn fMRI has(15 more words not shown)
- CIn most cases(16 more words not shown)
- DMost of the(17 more words not shown)
- EPatients are more(17 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
Taking the name off a medical record may not be enough if the record can reveal the patient's face.
Both kinds of information here can include things a patient wants kept private. We don't need to know exactly what those things are to follow the comparison. The important difference is how someone could connect that private information to a person.
For a genetic profile, the passage says that connection requires labels or records. An fMRI offers another route: enough information about the skull to create a recognizable image of the face. Imagine the labels and identifying records are unavailable. Under these facts, the genetic profile can't be connected to the patient that way, but someone might still recognize the person shown by the fMRI.
What we’re looking for
That's the inference to look for: the scan has a potential privacy risk the genetic profile lacks in that situation. We aren't being asked which information contains more secrets or which one patients worry about more.
Working the answers
- A
Being able to reconstruct a face doesn't make labels unimportant. Imagine having to generate and recognize a face every time a medical provider wanted to identify a scan. Labels could still be useful for finding the right record quickly and avoiding mistakes. The passage gives another identification route, not a reason labels cease to matter.
- BCorrect
Without labels or identifying records, the genetic profile lacks the only link to its patient that the passage allows. The fMRI may still reveal a recognizable face. That is a circumstance in which the scan could expose whose private information it contains while the genetic profile would not. The answer claims potential exposure, not that every scan actually causes a privacy breach.
- C
We aren't told how securely genetic profiles or their identifying records are kept. Their containing sensitive information doesn't establish that patients usually have reason to doubt its protection. C needs facts about security or disclosure that we don't have.
- D
The two sources both contain private information, but that doesn't mean they contain the same private information. They could reveal quite different things. Nothing tells us how much of the scan's content also appears in the genetic profile, much less that most of it does.
- E
A difference in possible privacy risk isn't a difference in how concerned patients feel. Patients might not know about the facial-image possibility at all. The passage tells us they want some information kept private; it doesn't compare their levels of worry about the two kinds of records.
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