I asked those questions not because I think your reasoning was inherently wrong, but because I felt like you were making a post-hoc story to justify specifically the answer A
Yes, that’s exactly what I was doing, openly and unashamedly. Recall that I had no idea what the question was until informed that it was a military exam. That information made A a more plausible answer than it would otherwise have been, for the reasons I explained.
I was proposing my best guess at the answer to the question “why is A the correct answer?” As such, my comments were not intended to strongly dispute the idea that there might be a better answer. (P(X|Y) vs P(Y|X) and all that, you know.)
Yes, that’s exactly what I was doing, openly and unashamedly. Recall that I had no idea what the question was until informed that it was a military exam. That information made A a more plausible answer than it would otherwise have been, for the reasons I explained.
I was proposing my best guess at the answer to the question “why is A the correct answer?” As such, my comments were not intended to strongly dispute the idea that there might be a better answer. (P(X|Y) vs P(Y|X) and all that, you know.)