my thinking was of course over time the sighting have increases, why? They are being recorded over time meaning people are recording them more than before. Especially in saying nothing has changed via climate change.
I was between A and E, but ultimately chose E because knowing the factors or not wouldn't change the amount of recording tornadoes. We could theoretically not know the cause of a tornado but still be aware of its occurrence. AC E understands this distinction. Since more citizens are helping detect tornadoes, more of them will be recorded. This especially makes sense if you consider more rural areas where meteorologists maybe don't have tornado detection equipment set up, but local residents live there and are able to pitch in.
@kaliyahwilliams There are 100x the records of blue bird sightings in 2026 than there were in 1986, even though the blue bird population has decreased by half. How?
Only bird watchers reported when they saw a blue bird in 1986. Now there is a public campaign which pays $100 per blue bird sighting. So more people are reporting blue bird sightings.
Blue bird sightings probably went down. But blue bird sighting reports went up for obvious reasons.
@Danaizha My layman diagnosis is that whats hard for you is easy for others and vice versa. You just have the 'brain wires' for solving the specific stuff thats more difficult to others, but don't have the robust 'brain wires' that others have for the easy stuff. Subjective. It just means the 'easy ones' are just a spot you have to drill. No biggie, just needs some practice
I got it right but that red circle on the blind review made me think I got it wrong so I changed my answer. I updated my blind review settings because that was rlly confusing me.
Answer choice D really tempted me. I straight up just assumed the Hypothesis. I failed to choose E because I was thinking that not all citizens are meteorologist, but it does not take a profession to actually SEE a big o tornado. omg
Just because people are helping detect, how can we assume that more are getting recorded? People could just be helping but doesn't have to mean their efforts are fruitful right?
@AkshayaAnnampedu I think you are reading too much into it. "Helping authorities detect" literally means the citizens are helping detect tornadoes. It does not say "attempting to help" or "attempt to detect" or anything that would suggest the help isn't working. The world "help" inherently means to assist or make something easier. If "many more citizens" are assisting in the detection of tornadoes, it is reasonable to assume that more tornadoes are being recorded.
@AkshayaAnnampedu remember these are not MUST be true. These are BEST EXPLAINS. If they were all bad answers, but 1 was less bad than the others, guess what. That is the "right" answer.
@MorganSmith D isn't correct because adding it to the stem creates more of a discrepancy.
The first sentence is saying the record of tornadoes is increasing (e.g., data being inputted in the National Weather system 3x more than in 1953). The second sentence contradicts the first sentence by saying that even though the environment creating the tornadoes remains the same.
Therefore, our answer choice needs to explain why the record is increasing without changing the environment.
D doesn't explain the questionable event between records increasing and climate factors, but states a fact that, actually, property damage has grown because of tornadoes.
E is explaining how the record is increasing because more people are inputting them into the data site, while the environment hasn't changed since 1953.
@MorganSmith Increased property damage does not equal to counting the number or quantity of tornadoes if that helps.
We could just have some really destructive tornadoes, but it would still be the same number. It doesn't explain why "the number of tornadoes has increased"
I was looking for an answer choice that gave us a different reason for why tornadoes were occurring more so this just fully broke my brain. :) And it hurt extra seeing the difficulty be so low. :) yippee
@MontrealAllen I read it like this…. We are talking about the ability “record annually”. For me mentally I realize that it was either a three ways. One it was either by the concept of technology advancement, advancement in science as a whole for weather, or by word of mouth, which for this day and age of 1953, it would be more likely. Hope that helps.
I got this one right but I strongly considered D, for a different reason than in the explanation. I took it as kind of the same as E. More property damage because there are more people where tornadoes are popping up. That would mean some tornadoes that previously maybe nobody actually saw, unreported, are now seen and reported. I feel like if E didn't explicitly say basically the same thing as my assumption, D still could have been a valid answer choice. I guess my point is, in my head D is only wrong because there is a better answer choice, bot because it's downright wrong.
I feel like these 'difficulty' ratings have far more to do with where the question landed in the test than the actual difficulty. This did not feel like a 2 difficulty it felt trickier than that because A is the most popular trap answer and when you are crunched on time you are much more likely to just go with your first impression. I would guess that if it was in section 4 question 25 instead of section 1 question 6 a lot more people would be getting it wrong. Still, don't think it would be a four or a five, probably a 3, but all the fours and fives I've seen have been near the end of sections where a good portion of people are probably guessing anyway because they ran out of time.
Does anyone know if they take test order and answer order into account when assigning difficulty or is it just based off the number of people who got it wrong?
In my mind, A is incorrect because it is talking about before 1953 and we are talking about things that have happened since 1953. is this correct to assume?
i thought about it like this: to record, they would have to know where they are, so when more people report the tornadoes (detect and then say something), there will be a larger record of them.
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How could I have got this wrong... dang
my thinking was of course over time the sighting have increases, why? They are being recorded over time meaning people are recording them more than before. Especially in saying nothing has changed via climate change.
I was between A and E, but ultimately chose E because knowing the factors or not wouldn't change the amount of recording tornadoes. We could theoretically not know the cause of a tornado but still be aware of its occurrence. AC E understands this distinction. Since more citizens are helping detect tornadoes, more of them will be recorded. This especially makes sense if you consider more rural areas where meteorologists maybe don't have tornado detection equipment set up, but local residents live there and are able to pitch in.
this literally makes no sense
@kaliyahwilliams There are 100x the records of blue bird sightings in 2026 than there were in 1986, even though the blue bird population has decreased by half. How?
Only bird watchers reported when they saw a blue bird in 1986. Now there is a public campaign which pays $100 per blue bird sighting. So more people are reporting blue bird sightings.
Blue bird sightings probably went down. But blue bird sighting reports went up for obvious reasons.
Right with 15 seconds to spare
Why am I killing the harders and fumbling the less difficult ones?
@Danaizha My layman diagnosis is that whats hard for you is easy for others and vice versa. You just have the 'brain wires' for solving the specific stuff thats more difficult to others, but don't have the robust 'brain wires' that others have for the easy stuff. Subjective. It just means the 'easy ones' are just a spot you have to drill. No biggie, just needs some practice
@Danaizha Same. I am doing 4 and 5 stars with 30+ seconds to spare, and going 10 seconds over time on ones like this.
Don't worry about it. If you are saving a ton of time on the hard ones, you have tons of "budget" to spend on these.
Its worth it to make sure you get them right!
I got it right but that red circle on the blind review made me think I got it wrong so I changed my answer. I updated my blind review settings because that was rlly confusing me.
Reminder....all answer choices are to be deemed true. As readers we are looking for the one that will explain the paradox/difference!
I thought that tornadoes read as tomatoes for the first read through and was thoroughly confused
@HopeEvans Same!
Answer choice D really tempted me. I straight up just assumed the Hypothesis. I failed to choose E because I was thinking that not all citizens are meteorologist, but it does not take a profession to actually SEE a big o tornado. omg
6/6 LETS GO IM CRACKEDDD SUIIIII
Just because people are helping detect, how can we assume that more are getting recorded? People could just be helping but doesn't have to mean their efforts are fruitful right?
@AkshayaAnnampedu I think you are reading too much into it. "Helping authorities detect" literally means the citizens are helping detect tornadoes. It does not say "attempting to help" or "attempt to detect" or anything that would suggest the help isn't working. The world "help" inherently means to assist or make something easier. If "many more citizens" are assisting in the detection of tornadoes, it is reasonable to assume that more tornadoes are being recorded.
@puddingeveryday Super helpful, tysm!
@AkshayaAnnampedu remember these are not MUST be true. These are BEST EXPLAINS. If they were all bad answers, but 1 was less bad than the others, guess what. That is the "right" answer.
I am still confused as to why D could not be the answer? In my head D and E are relatively the same. Someone help!!
@MorganSmith D isn't correct because adding it to the stem creates more of a discrepancy.
The first sentence is saying the record of tornadoes is increasing (e.g., data being inputted in the National Weather system 3x more than in 1953). The second sentence contradicts the first sentence by saying that even though the environment creating the tornadoes remains the same.
Therefore, our answer choice needs to explain why the record is increasing without changing the environment.
D doesn't explain the questionable event between records increasing and climate factors, but states a fact that, actually, property damage has grown because of tornadoes.
E is explaining how the record is increasing because more people are inputting them into the data site, while the environment hasn't changed since 1953.
@MorganSmith Increased property damage does not equal to counting the number or quantity of tornadoes if that helps.
We could just have some really destructive tornadoes, but it would still be the same number. It doesn't explain why "the number of tornadoes has increased"
@MorganSmith D is talking about property damage. Who cares about that?
I was looking for an answer choice that gave us a different reason for why tornadoes were occurring more so this just fully broke my brain. :) And it hurt extra seeing the difficulty be so low. :) yippee
I feel like this was pretty obvious
This just stressed me tf out and I still don’t understand how E was correct
@MontrealAllen I read it like this…. We are talking about the ability “record annually”. For me mentally I realize that it was either a three ways. One it was either by the concept of technology advancement, advancement in science as a whole for weather, or by word of mouth, which for this day and age of 1953, it would be more likely. Hope that helps.
I immediately assumed that there must be diagnostic differences in how we identify tornadoes.
I've been watching too much House MD
@RyanAlexander Carmen would’ve had it and House’s response would’ve been because you like to hold hands and talk about your feelings lol
I got this one right but I strongly considered D, for a different reason than in the explanation. I took it as kind of the same as E. More property damage because there are more people where tornadoes are popping up. That would mean some tornadoes that previously maybe nobody actually saw, unreported, are now seen and reported. I feel like if E didn't explicitly say basically the same thing as my assumption, D still could have been a valid answer choice. I guess my point is, in my head D is only wrong because there is a better answer choice, bot because it's downright wrong.
@CTU2B I think this answer choice D falls under the "add another fact in need of an explanation" trap answer
the teacher is so funny to me yall lol he makes this fun
I feel like these 'difficulty' ratings have far more to do with where the question landed in the test than the actual difficulty. This did not feel like a 2 difficulty it felt trickier than that because A is the most popular trap answer and when you are crunched on time you are much more likely to just go with your first impression. I would guess that if it was in section 4 question 25 instead of section 1 question 6 a lot more people would be getting it wrong. Still, don't think it would be a four or a five, probably a 3, but all the fours and fives I've seen have been near the end of sections where a good portion of people are probably guessing anyway because they ran out of time.
Does anyone know if they take test order and answer order into account when assigning difficulty or is it just based off the number of people who got it wrong?
In my mind, A is incorrect because it is talking about before 1953 and we are talking about things that have happened since 1953. is this correct to assume?
exactly!
I got this right lol but I feel like detect and record are 2 very different things.
i thought about it like this: to record, they would have to know where they are, so when more people report the tornadoes (detect and then say something), there will be a larger record of them.
Anyone else just take it to be true that there was a 3x then get thrown by the answer choices and go back to read the stimulus and see "recorded"?
I'm finally starting to predict the answers before reading the answer choices. I didn't even think it was possible.
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