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Snazzy

X: When a rare but serious industrial accident occurs, people respond by believing that such accidents are becoming more frequent. This belief is irrational. After all, being dealt four aces in a future hand.
Y: To the contrary, the belief is rational because it results in people's sensing a danger to themselves not previously sensed and taking precautionary actions to prevent similar accidents in the future.
Y's attempt to counter X's claim is best desciribed by which of the following?
a, it questions the aptness of the analogy drawn by X
b, it makes apparent X's failure to consider how people vary in thwir responses to a serious accident
c, it shifts the basis for judging rationality to considerations of utility
d, it offers an alternative explanatin of why people form incorrect beliefs
e it challengers X's assumption that the occurrence of a single event is sufficient to change a belief.

The answer is C, but why? thanks

snow_mountain

因为转移了话题呀。下面说这样做如何如何有好处。

Snazzy

thanks, bryony, but isn't Y right? when people have precaution, there r fewer accidents?

snow_mountain

whether it is right is irrelevant in this question.