CAT 2024 Slot 2 · VARC · Question 3
CAT 2024 Slot 2 previous year question on Odd One Out, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.
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.
1. No known real researcher of human behaviour would say that gender is all nature or all nurture.
2. The evidence for a biological basis for gender certainly doesn't mean we should be complacent in the face of sexism.
3. Many people are uncomfortable with the idea that gender is not purely a social construct.
4. Despite this empirical truth, researchers who study the biological basis of gender often face political pushback.
5. There's a political preference for gender to be only a reflection of social factors and so entirely malleable.
Answer & solution
Answer: 2
The paragraph is about resistance to the idea that gender has a biological basis.
Sentence 1 states the scientific position: no real researcher says gender is all nature or all nurture.
Sentence 4 follows: 'Despite this empirical truth' refers to sentence 1, and says researchers face political pushback.
Sentence 5 explains the pushback: there is a political preference for gender to be purely social and so entirely malleable.
Sentence 3 adds that many people are uncomfortable with the idea that gender is not purely a social construct. Sentences 1, 4, 5 and 3 together describe the science and the discomfort it meets.
Sentence 2 moves to a different point – what the evidence should mean for how we respond to sexism. It is a moral caution, not part of the account of resistance to the science.
Shortcut: when four sentences describe a reaction (pushback, discomfort, preference), the outlier is often the one that steps outside to say what we should do about it.
Hence, the answer is 2.
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