I feel like for this question, we really have to go through the POE. That would've been the only way to pick A as it would be contrasted against some really bad answers. On its own however, A requires assumptions.
What do you guys this the best strategy would've been for a question like this?
I got this right, by reminding myself not to overthink, but I feel like the really easy questions sometimes make me doubt whether or not I answered the question correctly.
so true...I was thinking at first A wouldn't be the answer because I initially overthought and thought that "unlike balls thrown at a slower speed" was simply just differentiating between balls thrown at slower speed and balls thrown at fast speed xD
As a former elementary PE teacher, I've been saying this for nearly a decade: gotta throw fucking 80+ mph ched at kids, or you are stunting their growth
I'm really starting to get a grasp on good logic from all this LSAT studying. if I want a kid to get better at anything, I gotta trigger the self-defense mechanism. when I have a kid I'll make sure he gets in da octagon with Jon Jones. thanks J.Y.!
I just wanted to come here and say that I thought self defence meant to defend yourself. So in the case of a ball being thrown at you, if you went into self defence, I thought you would deflect the ball or cover yourself to defend yourself. This is why I got it wrong. Maybe I should of became a neurosurgeon so I knew more about the brain before taking the LSAT.
A doesn't say anything about actually defending yourself. It says it "triggers regions in the brain that control the tracking of objects for self-defense." This would help explain why children have better luck catching objects at higher speeds, an additional region of their brain has been activated to help them better track the ball. I think you read into it so hard you missed the overall point of what A is saying
i think the self defence thing is more to just say that their reaction speed is faster as a result of that part of their brain is triggered, but obviously they know that they're just playing and the goal is to catch the ball, so their conscious actions are to catch it, while the part of their brain that is triggered is simply that of tracking for the purpose of self defence and not actually for the sake of self defence.
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I will test this by throwing an absolute missile at a 10 year old at skyzone
Im dying of laughter
A true scientist at heart, gotta make sure you have a large sample group for a solid result though
@dbauer This made me snort loudly in a quiet reading area
Let us pray this is what all the questions are like during my LSAT.
Lettuce pray to the LSAT gods for mercy and 1/5 difficulty questions
noted, next time i play with my nephew i will exclusively be chucking 90mi/hr fast balls
@TheBigFatPanda I hope Thanksgiving taught him well...
@AidenG123 its MLB or bust im afraid
lmao not kevin putting all these one bubble questions at the end of this lesson so we dont give up on our law careers
@Sunday_Blues13 That's J.Y. :). And of course, we gotta toss an easy ball sometime, right?
@Kevin_Lin s-tier comment
For me, the other options were so shit I auto picked A
same, though, i felt A was right but wasn't 100 percent sure.
I feel like for this question, we really have to go through the POE. That would've been the only way to pick A as it would be contrasted against some really bad answers. On its own however, A requires assumptions.
What do you guys this the best strategy would've been for a question like this?
I got this right, by reminding myself not to overthink, but I feel like the really easy questions sometimes make me doubt whether or not I answered the question correctly.
so true...I was thinking at first A wouldn't be the answer because I initially overthought and thought that "unlike balls thrown at a slower speed" was simply just differentiating between balls thrown at slower speed and balls thrown at fast speed xD
As a former elementary PE teacher, I've been saying this for nearly a decade: gotta throw fucking 80+ mph ched at kids, or you are stunting their growth
/throwing ched → stunting growth
Thanks for the confirmation, J.Y.!
@coachzrussell 80+ won't even get you outta high school ball. 90 or die baby lfg
38 seconds over but got it right. Will throw 100 mph balls at my 1 year old nephew
Just beam small children so they go into self defense mode lol
Sounds reasonable haha
I'm really starting to get a grasp on good logic from all this LSAT studying. if I want a kid to get better at anything, I gotta trigger the self-defense mechanism. when I have a kid I'll make sure he gets in da octagon with Jon Jones. thanks J.Y.!
I live for these comments, make this studying a bit bearable
I know ball
"Bazooka a ball at a kid and they be fine"
If it wasn't for JY's humor, I wouldn't laugh or smile while studying for this God forsaken test.
Get that baby on the San Francisco Giants. Now.
Process of elimination helps a lot in these kind of assumptions questions.
1/1 (-00:06) because i'm still developing coordination
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.
Lmfao good reference
they'll never see this one coming (me chucking a ball at a kid)
This question says throw things considerably harder at children than you think. This is the funniest LSAT question.
So I have throw 90 mph curveballs at my son so he can easily catch them.
I'm gonna train my kid to catch like i'm fuckin Shohei Ohtani
balls
I just wanted to come here and say that I thought self defence meant to defend yourself. So in the case of a ball being thrown at you, if you went into self defence, I thought you would deflect the ball or cover yourself to defend yourself. This is why I got it wrong. Maybe I should of became a neurosurgeon so I knew more about the brain before taking the LSAT.
A doesn't say anything about actually defending yourself. It says it "triggers regions in the brain that control the tracking of objects for self-defense." This would help explain why children have better luck catching objects at higher speeds, an additional region of their brain has been activated to help them better track the ball. I think you read into it so hard you missed the overall point of what A is saying
i think the self defence thing is more to just say that their reaction speed is faster as a result of that part of their brain is triggered, but obviously they know that they're just playing and the goal is to catch the ball, so their conscious actions are to catch it, while the part of their brain that is triggered is simply that of tracking for the purpose of self defence and not actually for the sake of self defence.
I discarded B based on it explaining slow balls but giving no explanation about fast balls.
I discarded C because it talks about adults but not children.
I discarded D because it talks about tossing balls instead of catching them.
I discarded E because who cares about the limits of fast balls.
This was the lowest 50% predicted score I've ever seen lol
@SeanWolfe didnt even think to check until i read this lmaoooo
If only questions would be around psychology and children, I’d be safe! 😅