What is trap answer?

A trap answer is a wrong choice designed to look right to a specific mistake.

Common traps: the true-but-irrelevant statement, the answer that is too strong, the half-right answer.

When you fall for a trap, name it. Traps repeat, and naming them is how you stop falling.

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