PrepTest 156, Section 3, Question 12
Passage A is adapted from a book review(497 more words not shown)
Passage A(12 more words not shown)
Passage B(493 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(32 more words not shown)
- APassage B attempts(4 more words not shown)
- BPassage B dismisses(8 more words not shown)
- CPassage B serves(6 more words not shown)
- DPassage B examines(10 more words not shown)
- EPassage B attempts(14 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
A says paranormal skeptics tend to be near the reductionist end of the spectrum. Then B gives us a writer who rejects paranormal powers and treats controlled scientific tests as decisive. B fits the type A has just described.
What we’re looking for
Notice the distinction: B can disagree with Dyson about whether paranormal powers exist while still illustrating Dyson's observation about the kinds of people who tend to reject them.
Working the answers
- A
B does not try to show that paranormal skeptics are generally far from reductionism. Its own approach points in the direction A describes.
- B
B does not dismiss this particular assertion as beneath response. Attacking Dyson's paranormal hypothesis is not the same as dismissing every statement he makes.
- CCorrect
B supplies an example of the skeptical, science-centered position A associates with reductionism. Its insistence that experiments settle the matter illustrates the connection rather than disproving it.
- D
B discusses complementarity, but to reject its application to paranormal phenomena. It does not analyze a relationship between that principle and the assertion about where skeptics fall on the spectrum.
- E
B does not argue that the assertion conflicts with another statement in A. It disputes the paranormal conclusion while behaving much as this particular assertion predicts.
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