Got it first try 34 sec. I REALLY find it useful to use process of elimination to draw out the most clearly bull answers and then logic what remains. It shaves off a ton of time
This was well said by J.Y. I fell into both the B and D traps really to avoid C and the "all" in the answer choice. But a key takeaway: The correct answer choice is not always the ideal answer choice. It just needs to receive support from the evidence.
Wise words from J.Y.: DO NOT overlook a CORRECT answer choice just because you're hunting for an IDEAL answer choice.
Fell for the B trap but learned so much from this. It makes sense that the storytellers couldn't have known what modern studies of their stories would conclude. Basically, they cannot know smth that hasn't happened yet, right?
Fell straight into the D trap because I thought the first sentence "universal aspect of both past and present cultures", since that was explicit. C felt so uncomfortable, but was easy to pick on blind review.
Yeah the use of "all" in answer choice C threw me off. I understand that even though it is not explicitly correct, the answer lies on the scale of most to least correct. And I guess it makes sense that it is still the most correct answer. I picked A initially. F my chungus life.
I feel a little confused, not why C is right, but why D is not strongly supported. Answer C was also my gut instinct but since the question stem said "story telling appears to be a universal aspect of both past and present cultures," I thought that both ancient and modern cultures value it similarly comparatively.
I would love to understand where everyone's heads are at!
@mdhrti I think you might have conflated universalizing with 'central'. 'Universal' here refers to a shared presence in cultures rather than making a value judgement (i.e how important it was).
It could very well be the case that ancient cultures cared a lot more about storytelling than modern cultures as nothing in the text explicitly refutes this. At least that is the way I saw it.
Answer C was my gut instinct, however I chose D as I felt that "all cultures" was significantly different than "diverse cultures" and somewhat of an unreasonable conclusion. This is a good lesson that although it may not be exactly true per say, it is still "correct" if it is more strongly supported than the other answers.
I chose answer choice A because I did not think the word "borrow" implied that storytellers from diverse cultures were intentionally using each others themes and ideas in their own stories and "copying" them. I thought it was simply acknowledging that there were common themes in their works. For example, if I made my own LSAT Course all on my own and it happened to be identical to 7Sage, I would still be accused of "borrowing" their content. So the takeaway I have is that "borrowing" implies the intention to copy, and eliminates the possibility that storytellers unintentionally used common themes in their stories.
@BillyM_ Another example is I locked myself in my room and made an 808s heavy rap song about being a lonely loner trying to free my mind at night, people would say I was borrowing from Kid Cudi's song Day n Night. I guess people accusing me of borrowing from Cudi would be trying to prove that I was copying Kid Cudi intentionally. Even though I didn't intend to borrow from Cudi, I still did. I guess I could argue "copying" doesn't depend on intention, while borrowing does. I'm getting to far into the weeds, but just wanted to write our my thinking.
what originally threw me off was the "all cultures" in answer choice C; it seemed like a pretty strong claim to draw based on the stimulus. But compared to the rest of the answer choices, I now see that it is the best.
I don't think that "borrow" is so literal a term as to always signify that something is being adopted in the same epoch / cultural moment that it was first used / created. You can certainly borrow from authors of the past, as a modern writer, can you not?
Very educational dissection, thank you. Couple of observations: 1/ this long sentence appears to have lost its verb along the way: "Just because we now know that storytelling appears to be a universal aspect of culture and language does not the storytellers themselves have known it all along, especially not those from distant epochs." 2/ it may be worth highlighting that "all of the world’s cultures" in (C) seems to directly correspond to "a universal aspect of both past and present cultures" in the stimulus (all of the world’s literally means universal).
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smh I read concerns in C and said nah, gotta be better lol so obvious when I went back and reread it
@Jashannnnnnn same!
i chose B and then chose E during blind review.....
Got it first try 34 sec. I REALLY find it useful to use process of elimination to draw out the most clearly bull answers and then logic what remains. It shaves off a ton of time
Answered A at first and then C during the BR
@miaxalicia2003 same! I felt like I read too quickly and chose the wrong answer the first time
Anyone else not know what epoch meant or was it just me...
This was well said by J.Y. I fell into both the B and D traps really to avoid C and the "all" in the answer choice. But a key takeaway: The correct answer choice is not always the ideal answer choice. It just needs to receive support from the evidence.
Wise words from J.Y.: DO NOT overlook a CORRECT answer choice just because you're hunting for an IDEAL answer choice.
Fell for the B trap but learned so much from this. It makes sense that the storytellers couldn't have known what modern studies of their stories would conclude. Basically, they cannot know smth that hasn't happened yet, right?
Fell straight into the D trap because I thought the first sentence "universal aspect of both past and present cultures", since that was explicit. C felt so uncomfortable, but was easy to pick on blind review.
Yeah the use of "all" in answer choice C threw me off. I understand that even though it is not explicitly correct, the answer lies on the scale of most to least correct. And I guess it makes sense that it is still the most correct answer. I picked A initially. F my chungus life.
@CarterCrawf i had the exact same issue ugh
I feel a little confused, not why C is right, but why D is not strongly supported. Answer C was also my gut instinct but since the question stem said "story telling appears to be a universal aspect of both past and present cultures," I thought that both ancient and modern cultures value it similarly comparatively.
I would love to understand where everyone's heads are at!
@mdhrti I think you might have conflated universalizing with 'central'. 'Universal' here refers to a shared presence in cultures rather than making a value judgement (i.e how important it was).
It could very well be the case that ancient cultures cared a lot more about storytelling than modern cultures as nothing in the text explicitly refutes this. At least that is the way I saw it.
Answer C was my gut instinct, however I chose D as I felt that "all cultures" was significantly different than "diverse cultures" and somewhat of an unreasonable conclusion. This is a good lesson that although it may not be exactly true per say, it is still "correct" if it is more strongly supported than the other answers.
@Leahmclell1 SAME
im doing so much better by not overthinking my first choice!!
I chose answer choice A because I did not think the word "borrow" implied that storytellers from diverse cultures were intentionally using each others themes and ideas in their own stories and "copying" them. I thought it was simply acknowledging that there were common themes in their works. For example, if I made my own LSAT Course all on my own and it happened to be identical to 7Sage, I would still be accused of "borrowing" their content. So the takeaway I have is that "borrowing" implies the intention to copy, and eliminates the possibility that storytellers unintentionally used common themes in their stories.
@BillyM_ Another example is I locked myself in my room and made an 808s heavy rap song about being a lonely loner trying to free my mind at night, people would say I was borrowing from Kid Cudi's song Day n Night. I guess people accusing me of borrowing from Cudi would be trying to prove that I was copying Kid Cudi intentionally. Even though I didn't intend to borrow from Cudi, I still did. I guess I could argue "copying" doesn't depend on intention, while borrowing does. I'm getting to far into the weeds, but just wanted to write our my thinking.
what originally threw me off was the "all cultures" in answer choice C; it seemed like a pretty strong claim to draw based on the stimulus. But compared to the rest of the answer choices, I now see that it is the best.
@LaneyWilliams Same! The word all tripped me up
I don't think that "borrow" is so literal a term as to always signify that something is being adopted in the same epoch / cultural moment that it was first used / created. You can certainly borrow from authors of the past, as a modern writer, can you not?
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"The correct answer choicer is not always the ideal answer choice" WHAT!!!! LOL My head just blew off. hahaha
I'm soooo confusedddd. Sometimes were supposed to infer what the writer is saying, sometimes inferring or assuming is a trap..I just don't know
Very educational dissection, thank you. Couple of observations: 1/ this long sentence appears to have lost its verb along the way: "Just because we now know that storytelling appears to be a universal aspect of culture and language does not the storytellers themselves have known it all along, especially not those from distant epochs." 2/ it may be worth highlighting that "all of the world’s cultures" in (C) seems to directly correspond to "a universal aspect of both past and present cultures" in the stimulus (all of the world’s literally means universal).
Went over time a little but still got it
im getting this, im not sure if I'm getting it but im getting it
EZ PZ
somehow clutched this with time to spare but for a level 3... that was hard
I got this one right away just by thinking " How do we know this?". I thought C was the most reasonably sounding answer on the actual and blind, YAY.