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Logic Breakdown
Passage Summary: The government keeps cutting green energy funds, and since big companies don't like green energy, they are probably the ones pulling the strings.
Conclusion: Corporate opposition to alternative energy likely caused the government to reduce its promised funding for those projects.
Reasoning: Every major alternative-energy project had its funding cut, and these cuts happened alongside efforts by large corporations to discourage such initiatives.
Analysis: This argument makes a causal leap based on a correlation. Just because corporations hate these projects and the government cut funding doesn't mean the corporations *caused* the cuts. To strengthen this, we need to eliminate alternative explanations or provide more evidence of a direct link. Look for an answer that shows the government doesn't cut funding for projects that corporations support, or perhaps evidence that the cuts occurred specifically after corporate lobbying efforts.
Conclusion: Corporate opposition to alternative energy likely caused the government to reduce its promised funding for those projects.
Reasoning: Every major alternative-energy project had its funding cut, and these cuts happened alongside efforts by large corporations to discourage such initiatives.
Analysis: This argument makes a causal leap based on a correlation. Just because corporations hate these projects and the government cut funding doesn't mean the corporations *caused* the cuts. To strengthen this, we need to eliminate alternative explanations or provide more evidence of a direct link. Look for an answer that shows the government doesn't cut funding for projects that corporations support, or perhaps evidence that the cuts occurred specifically after corporate lobbying efforts.
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Unlock Full Passage6.Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the reasoning above?
Correct Answer
C
C says that the only research projects with severe curtailments are those that corporations made it a point to discourage. That forges a strong, selective link between corporate discouragement and funding cuts, directly strengthening the causal inference.
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