It feels that there is a thin line between "reading between the lines" and making assumptions. I wish to have a clearer understanding of how to separate the two.
Just fyi, it helps me to write out each premise. I feel that practicing these types at a slower pace while writing out the premises will allow us to get faster at it.
As boring as Blind Review can be, it's actually super useful in these sections. Highly recommend utilizing it for future "You Try" lessons, as well as using "Quick View" to answer questions on your own before they're explained in the video lessons, to see if you understand what's being asked before it's explained.
I got all but one of the questions wrong. I don't feel like there was a lot of lesson here other than practicing. But practicing when I'm still not locked on is a problem. I think there should be more here - much more than just referring to old lessons.
I'd like some other tips, strategies, something to help. Comments have been slightly helpful, but it wasn't enough for me to feel even a little confident moving forward.
"Another way to think about support is to “read between the lines.”" Then why did we learn that assumptions are wrong? Reading between the lines is pretty close to assuming.
In one of the drill questions video explanation, JY states "typically we don't do argument analysis in a MSS question"... we don't? why don't we have to? #feedback
#feedback it may be helpful to add the question type to all of the "Review Titles." I like to star the review lessons for future reference, and that would allow me to quickly know what lesson it is reviewing
I'm getting confused as to what the curriculum says about MSS questions and assumptions. Are we allowed to pick answer choices that are assumptions, but not allowed to make our own assumptions? I think I'm currently picking answer choices that I think are assumptions made by the argument, but are really my own (or vice versa)? How would you differentiate an answer choice that could be true or could be false, with an answer choice that makes a reasonable assumption? Both seem tempting. #Help
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It feels that there is a thin line between "reading between the lines" and making assumptions. I wish to have a clearer understanding of how to separate the two.
Actually, I dont know why but my cat tends to look to the direction I point to.
Just fyi, it helps me to write out each premise. I feel that practicing these types at a slower pace while writing out the premises will allow us to get faster at it.
As boring as Blind Review can be, it's actually super useful in these sections. Highly recommend utilizing it for future "You Try" lessons, as well as using "Quick View" to answer questions on your own before they're explained in the video lessons, to see if you understand what's being asked before it's explained.
Got all the answers wrong lol. I’m pretty bummed. Can anyone recommend other studying resources particularly for this types of questions?
I got all but one of the questions wrong. I don't feel like there was a lot of lesson here other than practicing. But practicing when I'm still not locked on is a problem. I think there should be more here - much more than just referring to old lessons.
I'd like some other tips, strategies, something to help. Comments have been slightly helpful, but it wasn't enough for me to feel even a little confident moving forward.
#feedback it would be nice to have a lesson about reading between the lines. It's not intuitive, so practice and theory behind it could help
In the MSS questions, is it necessary to find the main conclusion in the stimulus like MC questions?
Information in the stimulus
→ May not be presented in a clear order: piece the information together & translate.
Support
→ To read between the lines.
→ Drawing out inferences using the support; find the hidden claims that receive support from the stimulus (which could be found among answer choices.)
Patterns in wrong answers
! Wrong answers make you rely on deriving support from outside of the stimulus
→ Merely consistent with
Could be true or wrong. We don't know.
→ Unwarranted assumption & appeal to your common sense intuition
Bait you to push over wrong answers to the supported spectrum
→ Appeal to the biases
- Prescriptive, normative, value-laden claims
- Might be biased towards (or against) them / might agree (or disagree) with them
→ Anti-supported & straight-up contradiction
"Another way to think about support is to “read between the lines.”" Then why did we learn that assumptions are wrong? Reading between the lines is pretty close to assuming.
In one of the drill questions video explanation, JY states "typically we don't do argument analysis in a MSS question"... we don't? why don't we have to? #feedback
review:
- Patterns in the stimulus
- Patterns in wrong answer
- timing
#feedback it may be helpful to add the question type to all of the "Review Titles." I like to star the review lessons for future reference, and that would allow me to quickly know what lesson it is reviewing
I'm getting confused as to what the curriculum says about MSS questions and assumptions. Are we allowed to pick answer choices that are assumptions, but not allowed to make our own assumptions? I think I'm currently picking answer choices that I think are assumptions made by the argument, but are really my own (or vice versa)? How would you differentiate an answer choice that could be true or could be false, with an answer choice that makes a reasonable assumption? Both seem tempting. #Help