#16 - Professor: Unfortunately, pharmaceutical companies and

[Dancingbambarina]

Hey Dancing,

If answer choice (B) were watered down to say something like "if the departments prestige increases, it is likely the funding from other sources besides profit-driver institutions will increase" then it is still runs counter to the conclusion, which states that the funding has to come before any other achievements will follow.

Hope that helps!
Dana

Thank so much Dana. That really clears things up.

If the wrong AC were in contrapositve form, would that order be represented as the same as in the repeat form i.e. the order is contraposed to keep the same flaw ?

Thank you so much

[Jeff Wren]

Hi Dancingbambarina,

I'm a little unclear on what you are asking, but since the contrapositive is logically equivalent to the original conditional statement, a wrong answer would still be wrong even if it were in the form of the contrapositive.

For example, the answer that we are looking for in this question is:

More money Money from sources other than Big Pharma

as Nikki describes in his earlier post (Post #3)

Answer D is the contrapositive of this statement, which is why it is correct.

However, if another answer had said:

Money from sources other than Big Pharma More money

That answer would be wrong because it is a Mistaken Reversal of what we need.

And if that same wrong answer were in the form of the contrapositive:

Not More money Not Money from sources other than Big Pharma

That answer would still be wrong, but now it would be described as a Mistaken Negation of what we need.