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Question:

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.

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.

Explanation:

The paragraph is about time inconsistency and its effects on immunization. Thus statement 1 should start the paragraph as it talks about time inconsistency in general. This should be followed by statement 3 as it mentions time inconsistency in the specific case of immunization. Statement 3 talks about how time inconsistency by itself is insufficient to permanently postpone immunization. Thus it should be followed by statement 2 which states how it is possible to postpone immunization by fooling themselves. This is then followed by statement 5 as it talks about how people fool themselves. Thus the correct order is 1-3-2-5. However, statement 4 talks about the cost of immunization which is a different to the topic being discussed in the paragraph – that of time inconsistency.
Hence, the correct answer is 4.

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