标题: 曼哈顿的一道逻辑题，看了解释还是不懂为什么D不对。请大家帮我看看。 [打印本页] 作者: ranfly0089 时间: 2015-7-25 16:09 标题: 曼哈顿的一道逻辑题，看了解释还是不懂为什么D不对。请大家帮我看看。 Two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, are linked to hereditary breast cancer. Therefore, in order to decrease the annual number of mammogram tests administered across a population and to more accurately assess a woman's individual risk of breast cancer, all women should be tested for these genes.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
(A) Some of the women who are tested for the two genes will subsequently undergo mammograms on a less frequent basis than they used to.
(B) The majority of breast cancer patients have no family history of the disease.
(C) Researchers may have identified a third breast cancer gene that is linked with hereditary breast cancer.
(D) Women who have these genes have an 80 percent chance of getting breast cancer, while women who do not have these genes have only a 10 percent chance of getting breast cancer.
(E) The presence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 can explain up to 50 percent of hereditary cases.
A我知道是对的，可是后半段从“BUT does this have to be true"开始的解释我看不懂，If at least some women get tested and then get fewer Ms, then that would help to reduce \ the number of Ms. But does this HAVE to be true? Actually, I think so. It has to be the case that women who otherwise would've gotten Ms don't; otherwise, the number can't go down.
D 的解释我也看不懂，I f that's true, then it does sound like knowing whether you have the gene would help more \ accurately assess your risk. Does this HAVE to be true? Not with those specific numbers, actually. Tricky. Maybe it's 70 percent or 90 percent instead of 80%; the message is still the same.
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作者: 拔萝卜的船长 时间: 2015-7-26 15:02
前提说有某两个基因的女士更容易得癌症
这道题目的结论是为了减少MS test和精确测量风险，女士应该去检测这两个基因
A 检测了这两个基因后 女士进行MS test的频率会降低，从而达到了减少test风险的目的。那个后半句的解释是说那些本来要去MS test的女士不去了it has to be the case that women who otherwise would've gotten Ms don't，注意don't.所以使得number 下降了
和80%无关吧？即使是70%、90%表达的意思都一样啊。解答中也写道：
If that's true, then it does sound like knowing whether you have the gene would help more accurately assess your risk. Does this have to be true? Not with those specific numbers, actually. Tricky. Maybe it's 70% or 90% instead of 80%; the message is still the same.