Am I wrong? Teacher Vs Student Part 3.?

Question

Verry Frustrated. Do I have a learning disability?
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Your doctor discovers that you have a blood pressure of 160/115. She tells you that changing your diet, adding restricted exercise, and taking medication will help reduce your blood pressure. What assumption is made by the doctor?
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Answer:
a. That your blood pressure is normal
b. That you have been eating fatty food
c. That blood pressure of 160/115 is dangerous to your health
d. That medication will help you lose weight
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I choose B. Because, you Dr. is assuming you eat fatty foods, based on your pressure, and illustrats that by telling you to "change you diet"
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Right Answer: C
"How is this an assumption made by the Dr.? Doesnt he KNOW this to be true?

The way I see it choice 'C' would be an assumption on the patients part, because of the fact that the Dr. is telling him/her to chance it.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Again, you are omitting (or forgetting) the point of the exercise.

It is not to use information that you know on your own (like the fact that high blood pressure is dangerous).

The point is to derive conclusions specifically FROM THE TEXT.

In other words, this is a test of READING AND LOGIC, not of knowledge.

For example, answer (d) may be true, but it is not derived logically from this text (losing weight is nowhere mentioned). Likewise answer (a) cannot be derived from the text (whether 160/115 is normal or not is not mentioned).

What about (b)? Yes the doctor is asking you to change your diet, but nowhere in the text does it describe what changes she is recommending ... fatty foods is not mentioned. So you can't derive *from the text*, that she has concluded you are eating fatty foods.

What about (c)? Well, she is giving you instructions on how to reduce your blood pressure ... so evidently she is assuming that reducing your blood pressure is important to your health.

I'll be honest with you. At first glance, I might have picked (b) as well. These types of questions are not so much that (c) is right and (b) is wrong ... but that (c) is more right than (b), BASED ON THE TEXT.

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Look at your reaction. You wrote "How is this an assumption made by the Dr.? Doesnt he KNOW this to be true?" No. That's the point. You are taking for granted two pieces of information not established in the text. First, that the danger of high blood pressure is more than just an assumption, but a piece of common knowledge. And second, that all doctors KNOW this.

This is an exercise about rooting out your own assumptions, so that you can spot other people's assumptions.

Answer 2

These are the basic guidelines for getting healthy period. I am not thinking it is an assumption at all. You are sitting there in front of your doctor and your doctor should know if you have a health problem that is making you gain weight as opposed to just not eating correctly. He/She should also know if it is the weight that is contributing to your high blood pressure. Some high blood pressure results from stress or family history. Its not all about weight.

A. If your blood pressure was normal at 160/115 I would seak a new doctor.
B. You are eating fatty food vs a genetic or biological problem.. youre doctor should know based on your health history and your family history...
C. A blood pressure of 160/115 is VERY high and dangerous to your health
D. Medication might help you lose weight but to keep it off and do it safely, you should be monitored by your doctor.

So if you are not happy with what your doctor tells you, get a 2nd-3rd-4th opinion. BUT I hope at some point, if all fo the doctors tell you the same thing, that you decide to help yourself before it is too late.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The reason that C is the best answer is because it is the only one with any sort of medical basis to it. There is no mention of a fatty diet in the question. Salt, dehyrdation, etc are all possible causes of high blood pressure and therefore would require a change in diet. Since we have no idea what the patient diet is, we don't know why the doctor is suggesting a change in diet. You are making an assumption about the doctor's assumption.

This multiple choice question isn't really well written, in my opinion. I'd have gotten marked off for forming a question like this in my ed psych class. It comes down to being a matter of test taking strategy as opposed to knowledge of the subject.

Before I saw that you included the answers, I thought the answer was C, but B also looked pretty good.

Answer 5

Lets try to work it out.

Your doctor discovers that you have X. She tells you to do A, B, and C to improve it. What assumption is she making?

a. That X is normal.
b. That you have been doing Z.
c. That X is dangerous to your health.
d. The doing C will help you do W.

No, the doctor does not know that 160/115 is dangerous to YOUR health. She knows that (for example) 90% of people with that blood pressure or higher, if untreated, will get ill or die from some blood pressure related cause. But you could be one of the magic 10% that are going to die from some other reason.

Answer 6

No. C is a matter of fact statement. The facts are right there in the question; 160/115. Any competent Dr knows that 160/115 is dangerous to your health. He does not know what foods you have been eating, or that the issue is with your weight. The issue is your blood pressure is high.

Answer 7

I'll agree that the answer is C, but I could understand why you'd choose B. The doctor doesn't *know* that 160/115 is dangerous, but responds to that fact by telling you ways to reduce it, which assumes that it's dangerous to your health. The doctor can't assume that you've been eating fatty food because she doesn't know anything about your diet.

This is a poor type of question for an objective test, though. What test is this from, anyways?

Answer 8

A is wrong because the doctor is telling you how to reduce your blood pressure.

B is wrong because fatty food is never mentioned

C is correct because the doctor is telling you how to reduce your blood pressure, so she is assuming that 160/115 is dangerous

D is wrong because the medication mentioned is for reducing your blood pressure, weight is not mentioned

The key to this kind of word problem is to check each answer to see if it is specifically mentioned in the text.

Answer 9

The answer is C.

You (the student) are making an assumption that "changing your diet" means cutting out fatty food. While that is always a good idea, what the doctor will actually instruct you to do in order to help lower your blood pressure is to cut out salt.

Answer 10

It's a logic problem.

The doctor wants to REDUCE your blood pressure. Why? Because high blood pressure is dangerous.