Getting committed proved rather easy, even if neither Bly nor her editors had a clear plan of getting her released one 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 woman 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 framed insane ward at Bellevue Hospital, the city's largest charitable hospital

Question

Use the excerpt from the "How Nellie Bly went undercover to expose abuse of the mentally ill" article to answer the question.
Which of the following would be an invalid inference to make about this excerpt?
A. Only someone who was medically qualified could declare someone mentally insane
B. The mentally insane were considered a danger to society
C. People found it important to give the mentally insane a safe place to live
D. People considered the mentally insane to be enable to determine their own status

Answer 1

A. Only someone who was medically qualified could declare someone mentally insane

This statement is an invalid inference because the excerpt suggests that a judge, who is not necessarily medically qualified, pronounced Bly insane. This indicates that legal authority can declare someone insane without requiring medical qualification, contradicting the implication of option A.