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Odd Sentence Out/Set 1 · Q21

Question

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

Sentences

1

Public-health surveillance gathers detailed data about populations in order to detect disease

patterns before they become emergencies.

2

The same data, however, can be repurposed in ways the original collection never contemplated,

raising questions about consent that surveillance frameworks rarely answer cleanly.

3

Privacy, once treated as a residual matter, has therefore moved closer to the centre of how

public-health systems are designed and justified.

4

Even where the original collection is uncontroversial, the absence of a clear rule against secondary

use weakens public confidence in subsequent rounds of data gathering.

5

Vaccination programmes succeed most reliably when they combine convenient access with

sustained community engagement by trusted health workers.

Detailed solution

Q21. Answer: 5. Sentences 1, 2, 3, and 4 form a coherent paragraph about how surveillance data, consent, and privacy are reshaping the design of public-health systems. Sentence 5 is on a public-health topic but addresses vaccination delivery and community engagement, which lies outside the surveillance-privacy argument. The oddness arises from a shift in scope and causal direction.