Absolute Yes Reason
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.”
Subject distribution
- CRIMINAL1
Example wrong choices
21651_retreat_platform_surgery_delay · CRIMINAL · Choice ANo, because Timothy might have survived with more careful treatment.
Why it's attractive
This choice treats a better possible outcome as the causation test.
Why it's wrong
This choice treats a better possible outcome as the causation test.
21651_retreat_platform_surgery_delay · CRIMINAL · Choice CYes, but only because medical malpractice can never affect causation.
Why it's attractive
The word never overclaims.
Why it's wrong
The word never overclaims.
21651_retreat_platform_surgery_delay · CRIMINAL · Choice DNo, because the doctor's negligence was the immediate cause of death.
Why it's attractive
This choice treats the immediate medical mistake as automatically replacing the original injury.
Why it's wrong
This choice treats the immediate medical mistake as automatically replacing the original injury.
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