Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.
- In many cases time inconsistency is what prevents our going from intention to action.
- For people to continuously postpone getting their children immunized, they would need to be constantly fooled by themselves.
- In the specific case of immunization, however, it is hard to believe that time inconsistency by itself would be sufficient to make people permanently postpone the decision if they were fully cognizant of its benefits.
- In most cases, even a small cost of immunization was large enough to discourage most people.
- Not only do they have to think that they prefer to spend time going to the camp next month rather than today, they also have to believe that they will indeed go next month.
Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.
- In many cases time inconsistency is what prevents our going from intention to action.
- For people to continuously postpone getting their children immunized, they would need to be constantly fooled by themselves.
- In the specific case of immunization, however, it is hard to believe that time inconsistency by itself would be sufficient to make people permanently postpone the decision if they were fully cognizant of its benefits.
- In most cases, even a small cost of immunization was large enough to discourage most people.
- Not only do they have to think that they prefer to spend time going to the camp next month rather than today, they also have to believe that they will indeed go next month.
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Solution
From passage: "In many cases time inconsistency is what prevents our going from intention to action" and "In the specific case of immunization, however, it is hard to believe that time inconsistency by itself would be sufficient"
The key is to find the main theme that connects most sentences -> Look for what topic appears most often -> Here it's time inconsistency and psychological barriers to getting immunized.
Step 1: Identify the main theme
- Sentences 1, 2, 3, 5 all discuss time inconsistency and mental barriers
- They focus on psychological reasons why people delay immunization
Step 2: Spot the outlier
- One sentence talks about something completely different -> cost as a barrier
- This shifts from psychology to economics
Step 3: Check logical flow
- 1 -> 3 -> 2 -> 5 flows smoothly (general principle -> specific case -> what's required -> elaboration)
- Sentence 4 interrupts this flow with a different concept
🔴 Sentence 4 is the odd one out -> context-shift -> Suddenly talks about cost when everything else focuses on time inconsistency and psychological self-deception. It's like discussing why people procrastinate, then randomly mentioning price - completely different barrier!
The other four sentences create a smooth argument: time inconsistency causes delay (1) -> but for immunization, people would need to constantly fool themselves (2,5) -> which is unlikely if they know benefits (3).