PrepTest 84, Section 3, Question 22

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Commentator: Unfortunately, Roehmer's opinion column has a polarizing effect on national politics. She has always taken a partisan stance, and lately she has taken the further step of impugning the motives of her adversaries. That style of argumentation is guaranteed not to change the minds of people with opposing viewpoints; it only alienates them. But that is likely not a problem for Roehmer, since her column is just an attempt to please her loyal readers.

Commentator: Unfortunately, Roehmer's opinion column has a polarizing effect on national politics. She has always taken a partisan stance, and lately she has taken the further step of impugning the motives of her adversaries. That style of argumentation is guaranteed not to change the minds of people with opposing viewpoints; it only alienates them. But that is likely not a problem for Roehmer, since her column is just an attempt to please her loyal readers.

Commentator: Unfortunately, Roehmer's opinion column has a polarizing effect on national politics. She has always taken a partisan stance, and lately she has taken the further step of impugning the motives of her adversaries. That style of argumentation is guaranteed not to change the minds of people with opposing viewpoints; it only alienates them. But that is likely not a problem for Roehmer, since her column is just an attempt to please her loyal readers.

Commentator: Unfortunately, Roehmer's opinion column has a polarizing effect on national politics. She has always taken a partisan stance, and lately she has taken the further step of impugning the motives of her adversaries. That style of argumentation is guaranteed not to change the minds of people with opposing viewpoints; it only alienates them. But that is likely not a problem for Roehmer, since her column is just an attempt to please her loyal readers.

Question
22

The reasoning in the commentator's argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that the argument

fails to rule out the possibility that a purported cause of a phenomenon is actually an effect of that phenomenon

criticizes a column merely by invoking the personal characteristics of its author

concludes that one event caused another merely because that event occurred immediately prior to the other

contradicts itself in its portrayal of Roehmer's column

employs a tactic at one point that it elsewhere objects to

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