I've lived on a lake my whole life. Hopefully, J.Y. is pronouncing "algae" wrong because I have always said "al-jee". Otherwise, I have been lied to my entire life.
unrelated but is anyone having a problem where they pause the video and it just goes blank until you unpause it again?? it's really annoying especially in cases like these where we want to understand elements of the answer before hearing his explanation.
I mapped this out with conditional logic and just told myself (this is weak) and was able to get the right answer. I wonder if that is enough to not get confused or it I am going to run into problems with this line of thinking.
the problem with these exercises is that all the answers but the right answer are easily struck out because of irrelevance or assumptions. In the drills and practice tests the challenge comes with the complexity of the mapping and answers.
I feel okay mapping things out but I know that I am not going to be able to map things quickly enough to meet the time requirements of the test. So I have no idea how to fix this issue besides just reading it and using whatever brain power I have to get the inferences correct.
When I read the first sentence of the stimulus for the first time, because of the use of "by" I immediately thought that it might be a causal statement (was thinking that nutrient-rich sewage caused pollution of the estuaries). Now I can see that that's incorrect, but considering the time constraints, is there a simple way to make sure what you're reading is clearly a causal relationship or just a fact/statement? Do I just have to envision two things as phenomena in which the target phenomenon (effect) has definitely already happened as a result of the cause? Although I doubt this considering sometimes the language in the stimulus implies one phenomenon (cause) can only potentially cause the target one (effect). Any clarification would be great!
Took me awhile to realize this but if you click "quick view" above the video it will show the questions, and you can try it for yourself first before watching the explanation!
What i've gathered so far is that we must be wary of the "only" "any way" words, as these would presume that nothing else outside of the question stem can be considered. Hope this helped!
Here's another tip. Choose the ONLY answer that does not bring in any sort of outside information. If an answer choice gives us information that wasn't given to us in the stimulus, why would you choose it? You really have to stick to just using the stimulus for everything you know.
I don't understand answer A. The fact kind already told us," The pollution from nutrient-rich sewage kills most of the fish. "Most means more than half, which can make answer A correct.
One thing that helps me from getting distracted by answers intended to confuse/appeal to bias is I read the stimulus and then, without looking at the answer choices, figure out what must be true and look for a paraphrased version of that
Are there times when causal logic would have a conditional claim in it? Or if I see causal logic I know there isn't any conditional. The "when" used in the stimulus confuses me a little bit and I wonder how I can know it is not conditional and just causal.
kind of annoyed ... how am i supposed to know that there is some other way of something occurring? i thought we were taught to stick with info in the stimulus. Now you're telling me that there is some other way algae can proliferate. according to the stimulus and causation, overnutrified causes algae proliferate.
I think it would be useful to make all of these lessons also a You Try Drill. We would probably benefit more by attempting it ourselves to see if we can use the correct logic and familiarize ourselves with the question before we watch the lesson. #feedback
Something that helps me with these kind of questions (casual relationship questions especially) is thinking of the possible hypothesis that is the correct answer for the phenomenon in the text. So basically, how can I best describe "why this is happening?" Put the answers on the spectrum of support and think to yourself with each answer choice, "Can I actually prove this hypothesis from happening, from the information I was given?"
Something that I've been doing for these lessons is creating a drill in a separate tab with the question and doing it before watching the video lesson. I find this helps me track errors in my own reasoning and compare to JYs. Basically making each lesson a "you try" helps a lot
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Am I getting better or are these all super easy
I've lived on a lake my whole life. Hopefully, J.Y. is pronouncing "algae" wrong because I have always said "al-jee". Otherwise, I have been lied to my entire life.
unrelated but is anyone having a problem where they pause the video and it just goes blank until you unpause it again?? it's really annoying especially in cases like these where we want to understand elements of the answer before hearing his explanation.
I mapped this out with conditional logic and just told myself (this is weak) and was able to get the right answer. I wonder if that is enough to not get confused or it I am going to run into problems with this line of thinking.
the problem with these exercises is that all the answers but the right answer are easily struck out because of irrelevance or assumptions. In the drills and practice tests the challenge comes with the complexity of the mapping and answers.
How can we tell that this question contains a causal relationship and not a conditional relationship? #help
Does anyone ever feel like we're kinda doing math when we're mapping and diagramming?
I feel okay mapping things out but I know that I am not going to be able to map things quickly enough to meet the time requirements of the test. So I have no idea how to fix this issue besides just reading it and using whatever brain power I have to get the inferences correct.
When I read the first sentence of the stimulus for the first time, because of the use of "by" I immediately thought that it might be a causal statement (was thinking that nutrient-rich sewage caused pollution of the estuaries). Now I can see that that's incorrect, but considering the time constraints, is there a simple way to make sure what you're reading is clearly a causal relationship or just a fact/statement? Do I just have to envision two things as phenomena in which the target phenomenon (effect) has definitely already happened as a result of the cause? Although I doubt this considering sometimes the language in the stimulus implies one phenomenon (cause) can only potentially cause the target one (effect). Any clarification would be great!
#help
Took me awhile to realize this but if you click "quick view" above the video it will show the questions, and you can try it for yourself first before watching the explanation!
What i've gathered so far is that we must be wary of the "only" "any way" words, as these would presume that nothing else outside of the question stem can be considered. Hope this helped!
Here's another tip. Choose the ONLY answer that does not bring in any sort of outside information. If an answer choice gives us information that wasn't given to us in the stimulus, why would you choose it? You really have to stick to just using the stimulus for everything you know.
if you are going to ask people to pause to consider the answer choices it would be best to make them visible while pausing, this is quite annoying
i wish the penmanship was a bit more clear
I don't understand answer A. The fact kind already told us," The pollution from nutrient-rich sewage kills most of the fish. "Most means more than half, which can make answer A correct.
algi
One thing that helps me from getting distracted by answers intended to confuse/appeal to bias is I read the stimulus and then, without looking at the answer choices, figure out what must be true and look for a paraphrased version of that
Are there times when causal logic would have a conditional claim in it? Or if I see causal logic I know there isn't any conditional. The "when" used in the stimulus confuses me a little bit and I wonder how I can know it is not conditional and just causal.
kind of annoyed ... how am i supposed to know that there is some other way of something occurring? i thought we were taught to stick with info in the stimulus. Now you're telling me that there is some other way algae can proliferate. according to the stimulus and causation, overnutrified causes algae proliferate.
So if there is a comparative claim in the answers should we just automatically rule it out?
I think it would be useful to make all of these lessons also a You Try Drill. We would probably benefit more by attempting it ourselves to see if we can use the correct logic and familiarize ourselves with the question before we watch the lesson. #feedback
algee
I've never heard someone pronounce algae like that.
Something that helps me with these kind of questions (casual relationship questions especially) is thinking of the possible hypothesis that is the correct answer for the phenomenon in the text. So basically, how can I best describe "why this is happening?" Put the answers on the spectrum of support and think to yourself with each answer choice, "Can I actually prove this hypothesis from happening, from the information I was given?"
Something that I've been doing for these lessons is creating a drill in a separate tab with the question and doing it before watching the video lesson. I find this helps me track errors in my own reasoning and compare to JYs. Basically making each lesson a "you try" helps a lot