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Currently, the number of first-time admissions of individual [#permalink] New post   02 Mar 2020, 11:32
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Currently, the number of first-time admissions of individuals diagnosed as manic-depressives to hospitals in Great Britain exceeds by nine times the number of admissions of such patients to public and private hospitals in the United States, even though the population size of the United States is many times that of Great Britain.


Which of the following, if true, would be most useful to an attempt to explain the situation described above?

(A) The term manic-depressive refers to a wider range of mentally ill patients in Great Britain than it does in the United States.
(B) The admission rate in the United States includes those individuals who visit clinics for the first time as well as those who are admitted directly to hospitals.
(C) A small percentage of patients diagnosed as manic-depressive in Great Britain are admitted to private nursing homes rather than hospitals.
(D) The variety of training institutions in psychology in the United States is greater than in Great Britain, reflecting the variety of schools of psychology that have developed in the United States.
(E) Seeking professional assistance for mental health problems no longer carries a social stigma in the United States, as it once did.




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Re: Currently, the number of first-time admissions of individual [#permalink] New post   04 Mar 2020, 06:42
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Let's analyze what the argument is trying to say.
The first time admissions in Great Britain are 90 and in the US they are only 10. Why such a huge gap. To fill this gap we need to find some extra information that connects the two and clears any confusion.

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(A) The term manic-depressive refers to a wider range of mentally ill patients in Great Britain than it does in the United States.

This looks like a contender. If the array of terms that relate to manic-depressive patients is more, then the patients admitted will be more. Keep this option.

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(B) The admission rate in the United States includes those individuals who visit clinics for the first time as well as those who are admitted directly to hospitals.

This shows that why the US admission rate might be low, but it doesn't tell us anything about the admission rate of Great Britain. Eliminated.

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(C) A small percentage of patients diagnosed as manic-depressive in Great Britain are admitted to private nursing homes rather than hospitals.

That means if they were admitted to hospitals then the rate would have been higher. It increases the confusion instead of resolving it. Eliminated.

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(D) The variety of training institutions in psychology in the United States is greater than in Great Britain, reflecting the variety of schools of psychology that have developed in the United States.

Just because there are variety of schools of psychology does not mean that the overall cases of manic-depressive patients have decreased. Doesn't address our confusion properly. We need to make various assumptions in this option for this to be our contender. Eliminated.

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(E) Seeking professional assistance for mental health problems no longer carries a social stigma in the United States, as it once did.

Stigma is not a part of the argument. Stigma does not correlate to the number of admissions according to the argument. Eliminated.

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Currently, the number of first-time admissions of individual [#permalink] New post   11 Feb 2021, 05:51
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The paradox is that the number of X in the UK are 9x the number in the USA and the argument is qualified as stating population of USA significantly exceeds population of UK.

A- If the term applies to a wider range of people in the UK then that explains the paradox, since more people are accounted in that particular term. Correct.
B- Only tells us about USA admission rates. Does nothing to the paradox.
C- No impact statement. Where some % are admitted is inconsequential.
D- Again, no impact to our paradox. Saying that there are different schools of thought doesn't do anything to the argument.
E- If the stigma isn't there then more people should be accounted for in the USA. This actually increases the paradox.

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