First Family Query!!

[utpalbarman]

Hi Folks,
Since the first Family rules states:
1) You must accept the stimulus information - even if it contains an error of reasoning- and use it to prove that the one of the answer choices must be true.

My question than is : If the stimulus has error of reasoning Does the correct answer also MUST reflect that error of reasoning?

Thanks,
utpal

[Eric Ockert]

Hi Utpal!

Simply put, you must accept all the statements in the stimulus as true no matter how implausible they may sound. The answer you select is something that would also be true, based solely on the information in the stimulus, not any outside facts. However, correct answers only need to be provable based on something in the stimulus. It is not required that all of the facts of the stimulus are used to prove the answer. So the correct answer cannot contradict the error present in the stimulus, but the correct answer may be based off of other facts in the stimulus and may not be dependent on that error of reasoning.

However, if you are referring to Parallel Reasoning questions (which are Prove Family questions) and you see an error of reasoning in the stimulus, you would almost certainly be targeting an answer choice that paralleled that error that was present in the stimulus.

Hope that helps!