once it took me over a minute to even understand everything, i stopped my timed approach and decided to just fully grasp it. ended up taking me 4 minutes but we got it right in the end. Hopefully i see something like this again and complete it much faster
"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 not to believe...".
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.
@CMas, well, if you look at the first-person perspective, if extrasensory perception exists --> everyone will believe it --> people with those powers would easily convince everyone --> will be rich, which would equate to him saying, since the general public doesn't believe, then it's not real.
The second person doesn't refute that it would satisfy all skeptics, as B says; in fact, he says you can't please any skeptics, which takes B out entirely. So what he's saying is that just because the general population believes it's true doesn't mean it's not real; it is just that it hasn't had a chance to prove it, which is why D fits best.
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.
@priscillasoliz OK, I see now. I mixed the statements from Waller and Chin into 1, the "could be demonstrated to the satisfaction of all skeptics". Where Chin clearly does go against this and Waller does not mention this at all. I made that assumption
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once it took me over a minute to even understand everything, i stopped my timed approach and decided to just fully grasp it. ended up taking me 4 minutes but we got it right in the end. Hopefully i see something like this again and complete it much faster
I rushed - need to take my time
i feel like a god for getting this right.
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 not to believe...".
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.
@JiyoonLim I'm with you. I usually think the more complicated the answer choice the least likely it's right.
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.
@CMas, well, if you look at the first-person perspective, if extrasensory perception exists --> everyone will believe it --> people with those powers would easily convince everyone --> will be rich, which would equate to him saying, since the general public doesn't believe, then it's not real.
The second person doesn't refute that it would satisfy all skeptics, as B says; in fact, he says you can't please any skeptics, which takes B out entirely. So what he's saying is that just because the general population believes it's true doesn't mean it's not real; it is just that it hasn't had a chance to prove it, which is why D fits best.
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??
@jos I would go back to the fundamental concepts and BR on your own to see where the inconsistencies are
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.
@priscillasoliz OK, I see now. I mixed the statements from Waller and Chin into 1, the "could be demonstrated to the satisfaction of all skeptics". Where Chin clearly does go against this and Waller does not mention this at all. I made that assumption