I was able to rule out D by realizing that something can be a "universal aspect" regardless of how important or unimportant it is. blinking is a "universal aspect" even though its fairly unimportant.
It seems like in other people's answers that we should ignore the term "all" in answer C and recognize that it is still the most supportive. But that seems like ignoring what we have been coached to see as a red flag. Also not choosing D because the author's didn't talk about the importance of storytelling still doesn't negate the fact that storytelling plays an equal role (whatever that role is) in both present and past cultures. I'm still not convinced that C is better than D.
Upon reading the discussion below, I have realized why I got this question incorrect. I was not familiar with the word "epoch". Some of you may read this and go ?? I've never heard this word before lol People's comments have basically given me the definition being of different times. So, I now understand that (A) is not possible.
I think had I known what "epoch" meant, I would have chosen (C) through the elimination process as he other answer choices did not give me enough sense of support.
I thought this was an "except" question because I didn't read the stem and just got done with the previous lesson. I was like wait how the heck did I get it wrong, my answer choice wasn't supported at all? ... Well, that's exactly why I got it wrong lol.
This particular question has a LOT more comments than most I've seen. Many of us were fooled by the fact that AC "C" contained the word "all" which appeared to be too strong of language to be supported. I am surprised that not #tutor or #instructor has come by to offer some additional guidance. I understand the video is here to help explain, but sometimes additional information and feedback is helpful. Perhaps admin, moderators, tutors, or instructors can observe the number of comments on a given question. It's quite possible that questions with a higher number of comments probably is worthy of additional attention and #feedback
Edit:
The analytics show that the most often chosen wrong answer choice is AC "D". The video spends the least amount of time analyzing this AC. It seemed that there was a comparative component to this question. The study is comparative in nature. The study made comparisons across time. Also, the answer seemed less committal, more general (less specific), therefore easier to support than other claims. So, additional feedback on AC "D" would be much appreciated. Thank you!
I hope my understanding of the question will help some people.
A is not supported because the epochs are widely separated making borrowing stories very unlikely.
Further, even without the widely separated Epochs context, assuming they borrowed themes is still a smuggled-in assumption. It makes sense, but the text does not support it.
B is not supported because we are assuming the storytellers' understanding. They may understand nothing about the universal aspect and still be good at storytelling. Nothing in the passage suggests that the storytellers are aware of it as a universal aspect of human culture.
C is supported because the passage states that the common themes being discussed are found in the world's cultures. The evidence supports this by highlighting the parallels between cultures.
My interpretation is that the word "All" doesn't matter because we are examining what the evidence most supports, we are not examining what the evidence makes definitively true.
In other words, although the evidence provided only supports, not guarantees, the statement, it most strongly supports option C, leading us to believe that C is now more likely.
D is not supported because the passage does not discuss the importance of storytelling.
It is our assumption that something universal is important, but the passage does not explicitly state that storytelling is important.
Just because it was prevalent in the past and present does not give us any evidence of the importance placed on it in either time period.
E is not supported because the point of the passage does not talk about the storyteller's motivations.
I didn’t think c was the answer because it didn’t mention anything about concerns/interests in the passage. I guess we can assume but I thought the whole point is to try not to assume rather connect instead. I can see why C would be the answer now but it just seems a bit flawed as well as a or b is.
These videos are killing me. Too many scribbles and circling of every other word. There is so much happening on screen it become so busy and distracting.
this is one of those question stems that doesn't actually have a good answer. You can't select 'C' because it says "all cultures" in the passage, where there's zero evidence of it even being many cultures. A, D, and E are reasonably wrong. But 'B' is just as accurate as 'C' in my opinion.
These tests are super annoying because we've been trained to avoid the "all" answer choice when there's zero evidence of "all" being implicit in the passage.
My thought process was that A, B, and E are all wrong for the same reason: the stimulus is NOT about storytellers. Its about the stories themselves and the features they have; it makes no assessment about the storytellers or their qualities. D is a tempting answer, but not as encompassing as C. D restricts the comparison to across time exclusively, but the stimulus is much more broad; it states this comparison is UNIVERSAL, across all of time (past and present) as well as anywhere in the world. Additionally, and perhaps more obviously, the stimulus does not make any value judgment regarding "importance" (though admittedly this reason was a bit less immediately intuitive for me personally). C is then the best answer, because it is the most representative of what the stimulus states: certain interests arise in ALL of the world's cultures, which follows if we take the premises to be true.
I feel like this video did a really poor job of explaining why A and B were incorrect. The guy did a good job of pointing out how B could be a trap question and why C is supported by the text. But he failed to deconstruct the faults in A or B. Even if he had stated that these choices fell slightly closer to the middle of the spectrum, in contrast to C, it would have made more sense. However, to stick those two options squarely in the middle of the spectrum doesn't seem right.
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Why was I so confident lol and got it wrong, rushed read it...
I second-guessed myself, and I got preoccupied with the time. I got it right on BR. Sometimes I feel like ima be cooked on the real lsat
How do we compare the level of support? In both b and c there were logical assumptions to make that were needed to be true.
Fell for the trap answer
this question is crime against humanity(LSAT takers)
I was able to rule out D by realizing that something can be a "universal aspect" regardless of how important or unimportant it is. blinking is a "universal aspect" even though its fairly unimportant.
It seems like in other people's answers that we should ignore the term "all" in answer C and recognize that it is still the most supportive. But that seems like ignoring what we have been coached to see as a red flag. Also not choosing D because the author's didn't talk about the importance of storytelling still doesn't negate the fact that storytelling plays an equal role (whatever that role is) in both present and past cultures. I'm still not convinced that C is better than D.
Upon reading the discussion below, I have realized why I got this question incorrect. I was not familiar with the word "epoch". Some of you may read this and go ?? I've never heard this word before lol People's comments have basically given me the definition being of different times. So, I now understand that (A) is not possible.
I think had I known what "epoch" meant, I would have chosen (C) through the elimination process as he other answer choices did not give me enough sense of support.
wait a minute.
isn't this scale from explicitly stated - contradictory - must be false? why does he say Must Be True @ 0:32? isn't it Must Be False?
I thought this was an "except" question because I didn't read the stem and just got done with the previous lesson. I was like wait how the heck did I get it wrong, my answer choice wasn't supported at all? ... Well, that's exactly why I got it wrong lol.
Universal in past and present=all.
This particular question has a LOT more comments than most I've seen. Many of us were fooled by the fact that AC "C" contained the word "all" which appeared to be too strong of language to be supported. I am surprised that not #tutor or #instructor has come by to offer some additional guidance. I understand the video is here to help explain, but sometimes additional information and feedback is helpful. Perhaps admin, moderators, tutors, or instructors can observe the number of comments on a given question. It's quite possible that questions with a higher number of comments probably is worthy of additional attention and #feedback
Edit:
The analytics show that the most often chosen wrong answer choice is AC "D". The video spends the least amount of time analyzing this AC. It seemed that there was a comparative component to this question. The study is comparative in nature. The study made comparisons across time. Also, the answer seemed less committal, more general (less specific), therefore easier to support than other claims. So, additional feedback on AC "D" would be much appreciated. Thank you!
Shout out to J.Y for knowing what Assyrian's are, thats my people!
I hope my understanding of the question will help some people.
A is not supported because the epochs are widely separated making borrowing stories very unlikely.
Further, even without the widely separated Epochs context, assuming they borrowed themes is still a smuggled-in assumption. It makes sense, but the text does not support it.
B is not supported because we are assuming the storytellers' understanding. They may understand nothing about the universal aspect and still be good at storytelling. Nothing in the passage suggests that the storytellers are aware of it as a universal aspect of human culture.
C is supported because the passage states that the common themes being discussed are found in the world's cultures. The evidence supports this by highlighting the parallels between cultures.
My interpretation is that the word "All" doesn't matter because we are examining what the evidence most supports, we are not examining what the evidence makes definitively true.
In other words, although the evidence provided only supports, not guarantees, the statement, it most strongly supports option C, leading us to believe that C is now more likely.
D is not supported because the passage does not discuss the importance of storytelling.
It is our assumption that something universal is important, but the passage does not explicitly state that storytelling is important.
Just because it was prevalent in the past and present does not give us any evidence of the importance placed on it in either time period.
E is not supported because the point of the passage does not talk about the storyteller's motivations.
Doesn't the phrase "all" seem a bit too extreme? I was drawn away from the answer choice because of this
"ALL" of the worlds cultures? really? That seems a little bit unrealistic that this supports a claim for "ALL" of the worlds cultures...
I didn’t think c was the answer because it didn’t mention anything about concerns/interests in the passage. I guess we can assume but I thought the whole point is to try not to assume rather connect instead. I can see why C would be the answer now but it just seems a bit flawed as well as a or b is.
This made zero sense
Once again I have been bamboozled by those pesky LSAC tricksters
These videos are killing me. Too many scribbles and circling of every other word. There is so much happening on screen it become so busy and distracting.
the word 'concern' in AC c threw me off, since nothing is said about concerns in the stimulus- was that not a valid concern?
this is one of those question stems that doesn't actually have a good answer. You can't select 'C' because it says "all cultures" in the passage, where there's zero evidence of it even being many cultures. A, D, and E are reasonably wrong. But 'B' is just as accurate as 'C' in my opinion.
These tests are super annoying because we've been trained to avoid the "all" answer choice when there's zero evidence of "all" being implicit in the passage.
at the end of the written explanation question choice D is being addressed at Question choice F ...
My thought process was that A, B, and E are all wrong for the same reason: the stimulus is NOT about storytellers. Its about the stories themselves and the features they have; it makes no assessment about the storytellers or their qualities. D is a tempting answer, but not as encompassing as C. D restricts the comparison to across time exclusively, but the stimulus is much more broad; it states this comparison is UNIVERSAL, across all of time (past and present) as well as anywhere in the world. Additionally, and perhaps more obviously, the stimulus does not make any value judgment regarding "importance" (though admittedly this reason was a bit less immediately intuitive for me personally). C is then the best answer, because it is the most representative of what the stimulus states: certain interests arise in ALL of the world's cultures, which follows if we take the premises to be true.
I feel like this video did a really poor job of explaining why A and B were incorrect. The guy did a good job of pointing out how B could be a trap question and why C is supported by the text. But he failed to deconstruct the faults in A or B. Even if he had stated that these choices fell slightly closer to the middle of the spectrum, in contrast to C, it would have made more sense. However, to stick those two options squarely in the middle of the spectrum doesn't seem right.