Question
Getting committed proved rather easy, even if neither Bly nor her editors had a clear plan of getting her released once the story was filed. She took a room at a cheap boarding house, "Temporary Home for Females, No. 84 Second Avenue," under the name Bly Brown and began questioning and imitating the women who seemed most insane to her.
Soon enough, it was Bly who was deemed crazy. The matron of the house enlisted a few cops to escort Bly to the Essex Market Police Courtroom, where an impatient judge named Duffy pronounced her insane and ordered her to the famed insane ward at Bellevue Hospital, the city's largest charitable hospital.
Which of the following would be an invalid inference to make about this excerpt?
• Only someone who was medically qualified could declare someone mentally
• The mentally insane were considered a danger to society.
• People considered the mentally insane to be unable to determine their own status.
• People found it important to give the mentally insane a safe place to live.
Soon enough, it was Bly who was deemed crazy. The matron of the house enlisted a few cops to escort Bly to the Essex Market Police Courtroom, where an impatient judge named Duffy pronounced her insane and ordered her to the famed insane ward at Bellevue Hospital, the city's largest charitable hospital.
Which of the following would be an invalid inference to make about this excerpt?
• Only someone who was medically qualified could declare someone mentally
• The mentally insane were considered a danger to society.
• People considered the mentally insane to be unable to determine their own status.
• People found it important to give the mentally insane a safe place to live.
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The invalid inference to make about this excerpt is:
• Only someone who was medically qualified could declare someone mentally insane.
This inference is invalid because the excerpt does not provide any indication that a medically qualified person (such as a psychiatrist) was involved in the declaration of Bly's insanity; rather, it mentions a judge making that determination. The other options provided are supported by the context of the excerpt.
• Only someone who was medically qualified could declare someone mentally insane.
This inference is invalid because the excerpt does not provide any indication that a medically qualified person (such as a psychiatrist) was involved in the declaration of Bly's insanity; rather, it mentions a judge making that determination. The other options provided are supported by the context of the excerpt.