Craft and StructureHardApplying a caution to a claim
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
When a treatment is given to the sickest patients, statistician Omar Haddad warns, comparing their outcomes with those of other patients will make the treatment look worse than it is.
Text 2
A hospital reports that patients given its new drug for pneumonia had a higher death rate than patients not given it, and concludes that the drug is harmful.
Based on the texts, how would Haddad most likely respond to the hospital's conclusion?
- A. By asking whether the drug was given mainly to the sickest patients, which would raise their death rate regardless of the drug.Correct
- B. By agreeing that the drug is harmful.
- C. By arguing that all patients should receive the drug.
- D. By denying that the death rates differed.
Answer: A. By asking whether the drug was given mainly to the sickest patients, which would raise their death rate regardless of the drug.
Haddad's warning: treating the sickest makes a treatment look worse.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By agreeing that the drug is harmful.
- His caution argues against that conclusion as it stands.
- C. By arguing that all patients should receive the drug.
- Not proposed.
- D. By denying that the death rates differed.
- The rates are not disputed.
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