#9 - If a mother’s first child is born before its due date

[amandas3]

I also only picked C because I saw it as a timing issue, like Jessica, but I want to make sure that truly covers things. By my logic answer choice A could have been correct had the last sentence been flipped to "Ben did not go to the fair, so it is likely he did not finish." Would that be correct?

[Adam Tyson]

I think that would be better, amandas3, but still not good enough to match our stimulus because that wouldn't establish that Ben is an artisan who was trying to complete a project for the fair. In the argument, having a second child is proof that Jackie had a first child, while Ben not going to the fair wouldn't prove that he was an artisan or had a project. That wouldn't make answer A flawed in at least one way that the stimulus was not flawed, making it a poor match.

[serenapao]

I don't think the stimulus definitively establishes that Jackie falls within the domain. We know Jackie had two children, but in the absence of pronouns/gendered language, we don't know that Jackie is a mother. The premise is specifically about mothers, but Jackie could just as easily be a father.