- Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:45 pm
#833
Hi, I'm really having a hard rationalizing why answer choice (c) is wrong here. When explaining why this choice is wrong, the book says, " although the stimulus says there has been a proliferation of multiauthored technical articles, no comment is made about the frequency of multiauthored technical articles. In the next sentence, a frequency - "usually"- is given, but only for multiauthored clinical trial reports."
That last part is where I'm finding trouble because the stimulus does offer a frequency regarding physics papers as well when they say "...experiments using subsystems developed at various laboratories GENERALLY have authors from each laboratory."
Now, breaking down answer choice C, it says, "when a technical article has multiple authors, they are usually from different institutions." And since the only two examples of technical articles discussed in the stimulus uses the frequency indicators "usually" and "generally" would I not draw a relationship between the two and say that when technical articles have multiple authors have multiple authors, they often come from different institutions.
I know that the book says that we should use information not given in the stimulus, unless it is considered to be common sense. But would knowing all the different types of technical articles be considered common sense?
I'm not sure what to think, and I would REALLY appreciate any help!
That last part is where I'm finding trouble because the stimulus does offer a frequency regarding physics papers as well when they say "...experiments using subsystems developed at various laboratories GENERALLY have authors from each laboratory."
Now, breaking down answer choice C, it says, "when a technical article has multiple authors, they are usually from different institutions." And since the only two examples of technical articles discussed in the stimulus uses the frequency indicators "usually" and "generally" would I not draw a relationship between the two and say that when technical articles have multiple authors have multiple authors, they often come from different institutions.
I know that the book says that we should use information not given in the stimulus, unless it is considered to be common sense. But would knowing all the different types of technical articles be considered common sense?
I'm not sure what to think, and I would REALLY appreciate any help!