"Failure" in D threw me off. It's almost as if it's imposing a Value judgement onto the answer. It would better stated as "the choice of the general public".
I want to ask the LSAT tutors whether I can generalize that extreme wording on answer choices are usually wrong. Unless it is explicitly stated in the stimulus. I don't have enough experience with the problems to make a generalization.
see I thought because there was no "supported" in the stem that it was an 'explicit' question-type. Because of that I read the answer choices much differently
Wow. I got it right with a 1:53 seconds over. Here is how I got to my answer D and not B.
Answer D: the failure of the general public to believe in extrasensory perception is good evidence against its existence
/General public belief --> /extrasensory perception real
This is stated in Waller's argument:
If extrasensory perception were real --> general public believes it
Now for Chin:
thus public opinion (general public), will always be biased in favor of such skeptics.
Chin would most STRONGLY disagree with Waller's argument and the statement that: "the failure of the general public to believe in extrasensory perception is good evidence against its existence".
For B I crossed this answer choice immediately. Waller NEVER explicitly or implicitly mentions skeptics. All he mentions is the general public.
My actual take was wrong but I got it right on BR. I rushed the actual take but also didn't spend a lot of time on BR. Gives me confidence that if I slow down I can definitely get tougher questions correct on this test.
The reasoning for why something is not true, to me, appears lack luster. I can prove why B is not correct, but I can't prove why D is correct based on the information they've provided.
I fell into the trap and clicked B, and right as I hit "submit drill" I let out an "AHHHH" because I had realized exactly the trap I fell into, but it was too late to correct my answer
Fell for the trap answer at first, but then in BR, I chose D. I'm trying to wrap my head as to why I fell for it, and only went with D in BR as it was my next best bet.
I've tried breaking this down several different ways, and it's not nearly as clear to me as any of the other ones.
My only real takeaway here is that "good evidence for" is comparable to a conditional statement.
I'm not seeing a rigorous, methodical way of preventing a misunderstanding like this happening in the future. Frustrating.
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stop I chose A and then C and like legit no one picked those lmao
got this one wrong:( I chose B
I want to punch whoever wrote this question.
"Failure" in D threw me off. It's almost as if it's imposing a Value judgement onto the answer. It would better stated as "the choice of the general public".
I want to ask the LSAT tutors whether I can generalize that extreme wording on answer choices are usually wrong. Unless it is explicitly stated in the stimulus. I don't have enough experience with the problems to make a generalization.
ugh I fell for the trap and picked B
see I thought because there was no "supported" in the stem that it was an 'explicit' question-type. Because of that I read the answer choices much differently
i was down to B & D and chose B at first and in my BR i chose D because i was like wait waller never said anything about skeptics..
CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT BECAUSE I'M ON FIREEEE
oh my glob I got it right and under time
It’s strange that I can answer the challenging questions correctly, but I sometimes get the simpler ones wrong.
First one wrong in these practice problems. This one was tricky.
Wow. I got it right with a 1:53 seconds over. Here is how I got to my answer D and not B.
Answer D: the failure of the general public to believe in extrasensory perception is good evidence against its existence
/General public belief --> /extrasensory perception real
This is stated in Waller's argument:
If extrasensory perception were real --> general public believes it
Now for Chin:
thus public opinion (general public), will always be biased in favor of such skeptics.
Chin would most STRONGLY disagree with Waller's argument and the statement that: "the failure of the general public to believe in extrasensory perception is good evidence against its existence".
For B I crossed this answer choice immediately. Waller NEVER explicitly or implicitly mentions skeptics. All he mentions is the general public.
My actual take was wrong but I got it right on BR. I rushed the actual take but also didn't spend a lot of time on BR. Gives me confidence that if I slow down I can definitely get tougher questions correct on this test.
I got a bit cocky here
Rip it and stick it babbyyyyy
I had this question in an LR practice about 2 weeks ago and remembered that B is not the correct answer.
The reasoning for why something is not true, to me, appears lack luster. I can prove why B is not correct, but I can't prove why D is correct based on the information they've provided.
I got it under time!!........ but i was wrong :) CLASSIC
I've literally gotten every practice problem wrong OMGGG. How are you guys getting it??
I fell into the trap and clicked B, and right as I hit "submit drill" I let out an "AHHHH" because I had realized exactly the trap I fell into, but it was too late to correct my answer
Fell for the trap answer at first, but then in BR, I chose D. I'm trying to wrap my head as to why I fell for it, and only went with D in BR as it was my next best bet.
i was so shocked I got this right and only 11 seconds ove time that I sceamed, called it lunch break, and made a sandwich.
I was shocked to find that B was the most popular answer, that was the answer choice I struck down nearly immediately
I've tried breaking this down several different ways, and it's not nearly as clear to me as any of the other ones.
My only real takeaway here is that "good evidence for" is comparable to a conditional statement.
I'm not seeing a rigorous, methodical way of preventing a misunderstanding like this happening in the future. Frustrating.