Absolute Wording
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
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Example wrong choices
17251_manna_heat_chili_cookoff · EVIDENCE · Choice BAdmit Esther's testimony because Lydia's entering a chili cook-off proves she has an untruthful character.
Why it's attractive
A chili cook-off entry does not visibly track truthfulness.
Why it's wrong
A chili cook-off entry does not visibly track truthfulness.
17251_manna_heat_chili_cookoff · EVIDENCE · Choice CExclude Esther's testimony only if Lydia was not first shown the cook-off flyer.
Why it's attractive
The flyer condition appears from nowhere in the stem.
Why it's wrong
The flyer condition appears from nowhere in the stem.
17251_manna_heat_chili_cookoff · EVIDENCE · Choice DAdmit Esther's testimony because any prior inconsistent statement may be proved with extrinsic evidence.
Why it's attractive
The word any is too broad when the contradiction is only about a side point.
Why it's wrong
The word any is too broad when the contradiction is only about a side point.
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