PrepTest 93+, Section 2, Question 9
Psychologists report that children in nine-month schools typically forget a significant amount of schooling during summer breaks. So, some educators have proposed a twelve-month schedule in which there are three month-long breaks spread throughout the year. We should conclude, on the basis of the psychologists' research, that the twelve-month schedule is to be preferred insofar as academic learning is concerned, since this schedule will insure that students will not forget their schooling during their breaks.
Psychologists report that children in nine-month schools typically forget a significant amount of schooling during summer breaks. So, some educators have proposed a twelve-month schedule in which there are three month-long breaks spread throughout the year. We should conclude, on the basis of the psychologists' research, that the twelve-month schedule is to be preferred insofar as academic learning is concerned, since this schedule will insure that students will not forget their schooling during their breaks.
Psychologists report that children in nine-month schools typically forget a significant amount of schooling during summer breaks. So, some educators have proposed a twelve-month schedule in which there are three month-long breaks spread throughout the year. We should conclude, on the basis of the psychologists' research, that the twelve-month schedule is to be preferred insofar as academic learning is concerned, since this schedule will insure that students will not forget their schooling during their breaks.
Psychologists report that children in nine-month schools typically forget a significant amount of schooling during summer breaks. So, some educators have proposed a twelve-month schedule in which there are three month-long breaks spread throughout the year. We should conclude, on the basis of the psychologists' research, that the twelve-month schedule is to be preferred insofar as academic learning is concerned, since this schedule will insure that students will not forget their schooling during their breaks.
The reasoning above is most vulnerable to the criticism that it
relies on an unsubstantiated assumption about the comparative worth of academic and nonacademic learning experiences
draws on an arbitrary distinction between two groups
takes for granted, in comparing two situations, that a certain undesirable result is correlated with only one of them
fails to show that the data on which the psychologists' conclusions were based was adequately representative of children in the population as a whole
claims to accept a view, but then rejects it in the course of argument
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