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CR · Critical Reasoning
655-705
Assumptions
Emotional stress is a well known cause of certain serious health problems, including high blood pressure and cardiac complications. Now, an additional concern can be added to the list of maladies caused by emotional stress. A recent study surveyed both people who have high levels of emotional stress and people who don’t, and found that people with high emotional stress levels are significantly more obese and nervous than people with lower levels of emotional stress.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument rests?
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument rests?
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Obesity and nervousness can lead to serious health problems.
B
Emotionally stressed out people are aware of the various health problems attributed to emotional stress, including high blood pressure and cardiac complications.
C
Equivalent numbers of people with high and low levels of emotional stress were surveyed for the study.
D
Obesity and nervousness do not make individuals less capable to deal with emotionally stressful situations.
E
Emotionally stressed out people who had encountered an emotionally stressful situation immediately before responding to the survey were more obese and nervous than the people form same group who had not encountered any emotionally stressful situation for a few days.
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655-705
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CR