#feedback - for these lessons, it would be nice if you don't immediately give away if an answer's correct or incorrect. Introducing (A) by immediately circling it as correct doesn't give time for us to process the choice ourselves and/or walk through the analysis with you before you circle or cross it out.
@DeliaCanDoIt! Something that helped me with this was to try the question before watching the video. You can find that feature at the top of the lesson under the tab "show question". Hope this helps!! :)
I would even say that answer choice E may be good answer choice for strengthening the stimulus' argument, because anger could potentially lead that driver to become a bit possessive of the parking space and feel inclined to leave the parking space much more slowly just to spite the impatient honking car.
@TarikSoliman That may be the case in real life. However, answer choice A says "the less quickly they are able to perform them." So the answer is saying if they are pressured they perform less quickly. The prompt says "if true" so we have to base our argument on the choice being true, even if it doesn't fit with our own experiences.
My brain works backwards for these questions for some reason. Can someone simplify the relationship between the conclusion and the answer choices for me?
@HilarySackor I have no idea if this is relevant or if it will help you but what I have found that helps me with these type of questions is I read the entire stim, i then basically read it again without reading the conclusion/hypothesis and see which other answer choice could make sense with the support. basically which answer choice could be a "better" conclusion/hypothesis. thats helped me so far!
youre basically finding an alternative conclusion, one that could basically be used instead of the one thats provided in the original stim. finding an alternative one would weaken the argument thats given. hope this helps
My prediction was that if people are honking, drivers will tend to want to be a dick right back, which led me to (E). Now I know that that only accounts for half the phenomenon, and not for those drivers waiting quietly
@RyanAlexander hey Ryan Ive seen you comment on so many videos now how has ur journey been going so far? came back here after weaken questions but I see u everywhere on most videos
#Feedback, please reveal the answer choices at once. it gives most of us a better idea to compare and see. PLEASE. I know they have the questions, and i can look it up, but it misses the whole point for me seeing the question first time, while you guys are explaining it.
@legallyhaya Idk if you figured this out yet but you can preview the question before the video starts if you scroll to the top of the page before the video... hope that helps
What threw me off about answer choice A and made me find AC C more attractive was the wording in A. The phrase “perform maneuvers with their cars” felt too vague—it could refer to backing out of a parking space, but also pulling in, parallel parking, using a roundabout, etc. It wasn’t specific enough.
On the other hand, answer choice C clearly refers to maneuvering a car out of a parking space while another car is waiting to enter it. That felt more relevant and specific to the scenario.
It also made me question the premise of the original argument. Maybe people aren't being possessive of their parking spots—maybe it just takes time and care to back out when someone’s waiting to take your spot. So the delay might be due to difficulty, not intention.
If I were under time pressure, I feel like I’d choose C, but I’m struggling to get a solid grasp on causal reasoning questions like this. #help
My prediction: The drivers are more cautious when another car is waiting, so as to avoid hitting the waiting car. The honking causes them to slow down even more, because it makes them think that they're about to hit another car.
The author made a general conclusion based on observations from a shopping mall parking lot, and D is saying this conclusion is not solid because shopping mall parking lots are unrepresentative of parking spaces in general. Doesn't that sound like weakening the support bewteen the premise and conclusion? It is quite hard for me now to see how D is irrelevant.
@jess.zzz To answer your question, you are correct in identifying D as weakening to the hypothesis in the stim. However, keep in mind that the question stem asks which answer choice most weakens, and it seems to me that A does a better job of weakening because it offers a compelling alternate explanation.
@jess.zzz I don't think D weakens the argument in the stimmy at all, but I can see how you were tempted by it. Answer choice D mentions that mall parking spaces are unrepresentative of parking spaces in general when it comes to the likelihood of someone waiting for the space. That's it. Mall parking lots could be sufficiently representative in every other meaningful way. The psychologists are examining what happens when someone IS waiting, so the frequency of someone waiting doesn't inherently impact the truth of their conclusion. The answer choice doesn't mention how that impacts their possessiveness over the space. A sufficiently representative sample used in a study could still be unrepresentative of the target population in countless ways that are inconsequential to the underlying research topic.
Example:
Medical researchers studied 1,000 people and found that those who smoke have higher rates of lung cancer. This suggests that smoking causes lung cancer.
Answer D: The sample of people studied are unrepresentative of the broader population in general with respect to the likelihood that their favorite color is green.
How does their favorite color being green impact their cancer rate? We don't know. It could, but it's not super reasonable to infer that it does in a meaningful way.
Hope that helps you understand why answer choice D is pretty irrelevant to the conclusion of the stimmy. At least in my understanding. D shouldn't be tempting when there's much stronger answers that rely on far less inference
I am having trouble understanding what it means to "weaken" the reasoning. I know it means weakening the support, but am just confused how that would appear in this kind of question. Is it essentially asking which answer choice is a stronger alternative to the conclusion given in the question?
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This is me at Costco ;)
#feedback - for these lessons, it would be nice if you don't immediately give away if an answer's correct or incorrect. Introducing (A) by immediately circling it as correct doesn't give time for us to process the choice ourselves and/or walk through the analysis with you before you circle or cross it out.
@DeliaCanDoIt! Something that helped me with this was to try the question before watching the video. You can find that feature at the top of the lesson under the tab "show question". Hope this helps!! :)
@NoraElkhyati Thanks Nora!!
@NoraElkhyati This is so helpful, thank you!
I would even say that answer choice E may be good answer choice for strengthening the stimulus' argument, because anger could potentially lead that driver to become a bit possessive of the parking space and feel inclined to leave the parking space much more slowly just to spite the impatient honking car.
but if your getting pressured wouldnt that make the driver leave the spot faster cuz they are feeling more rushed?
@TarikSoliman That may be the case in real life. However, answer choice A says "the less quickly they are able to perform them." So the answer is saying if they are pressured they perform less quickly. The prompt says "if true" so we have to base our argument on the choice being true, even if it doesn't fit with our own experiences.
yay! i got this imediately
We gotta stop circling multiple answers, lol. I'm dying over here.
and all of it need to do in 1 min 20 sec max....
100% would have answered E
This one confuses me... I feel like answer A strengthens the reasoning not weakens it?
Honk more, motherfucker
@jasonlan LMFAO
Can then the alternative hypothesis be thought of as a premise that weakens the conclusion?
"If there's a jerk honking impatiently..." lol so funny.
I don't know why but I have had a much easier time with questions that are 4/5 or 5/5 difficulty but a much harder time with 1/5 and 2/5
My brain works backwards for these questions for some reason. Can someone simplify the relationship between the conclusion and the answer choices for me?
@HilarySackor I have no idea if this is relevant or if it will help you but what I have found that helps me with these type of questions is I read the entire stim, i then basically read it again without reading the conclusion/hypothesis and see which other answer choice could make sense with the support. basically which answer choice could be a "better" conclusion/hypothesis. thats helped me so far!
youre basically finding an alternative conclusion, one that could basically be used instead of the one thats provided in the original stim. finding an alternative one would weaken the argument thats given. hope this helps
I find the weaken question types to be easiest for me to navigate through thus far:)
My prediction was that if people are honking, drivers will tend to want to be a dick right back, which led me to (E). Now I know that that only accounts for half the phenomenon, and not for those drivers waiting quietly
@RyanAlexander hey Ryan Ive seen you comment on so many videos now how has ur journey been going so far? came back here after weaken questions but I see u everywhere on most videos
@AidenG123 Awful, thanks!
@RyanAlexander why is it going badly? how long have you been studying for?
@RyanAlexander I thought the same lol
#Feedback, please reveal the answer choices at once. it gives most of us a better idea to compare and see. PLEASE. I know they have the questions, and i can look it up, but it misses the whole point for me seeing the question first time, while you guys are explaining it.
@legallyhaya totally agree, i hate when they show the correct one first without me even getting a chance to guess and learn from my wrong guess
@meepmeep yup, glad i am not alone
@legallyhaya Idk if you figured this out yet but you can preview the question before the video starts if you scroll to the top of the page before the video... hope that helps
@AidenG123 OMG Your response helped me!!!! I hate that I cant attempt the questions 1st and then listen to the reasoning!!!
@AidenG123 OH MY GOSH THANK YOU FOR SHARING
What threw me off about answer choice A and made me find AC C more attractive was the wording in A. The phrase “perform maneuvers with their cars” felt too vague—it could refer to backing out of a parking space, but also pulling in, parallel parking, using a roundabout, etc. It wasn’t specific enough.
On the other hand, answer choice C clearly refers to maneuvering a car out of a parking space while another car is waiting to enter it. That felt more relevant and specific to the scenario.
It also made me question the premise of the original argument. Maybe people aren't being possessive of their parking spots—maybe it just takes time and care to back out when someone’s waiting to take your spot. So the delay might be due to difficulty, not intention.
If I were under time pressure, I feel like I’d choose C, but I’m struggling to get a solid grasp on causal reasoning questions like this. #help
@XimenaTamariz But AC C doesn't differentiate or explain the phenomenon between 39 seconds and 51 seconds, eventhough both cars waiting were present.
My prediction: The drivers are more cautious when another car is waiting, so as to avoid hitting the waiting car. The honking causes them to slow down even more, because it makes them think that they're about to hit another car.
@ActuallyJozu tesla FSD for the win.
I find D very tempting.
The author made a general conclusion based on observations from a shopping mall parking lot, and D is saying this conclusion is not solid because shopping mall parking lots are unrepresentative of parking spaces in general. Doesn't that sound like weakening the support bewteen the premise and conclusion? It is quite hard for me now to see how D is irrelevant.
Could someone please help clarify this for me?
@jess.zzz
Phrasing!
@jess.zzz To answer your question, you are correct in identifying D as weakening to the hypothesis in the stim. However, keep in mind that the question stem asks which answer choice most weakens, and it seems to me that A does a better job of weakening because it offers a compelling alternate explanation.
@jess.zzz I don't think D weakens the argument in the stimmy at all, but I can see how you were tempted by it. Answer choice D mentions that mall parking spaces are unrepresentative of parking spaces in general when it comes to the likelihood of someone waiting for the space. That's it. Mall parking lots could be sufficiently representative in every other meaningful way. The psychologists are examining what happens when someone IS waiting, so the frequency of someone waiting doesn't inherently impact the truth of their conclusion. The answer choice doesn't mention how that impacts their possessiveness over the space. A sufficiently representative sample used in a study could still be unrepresentative of the target population in countless ways that are inconsequential to the underlying research topic.
Example:
Medical researchers studied 1,000 people and found that those who smoke have higher rates of lung cancer. This suggests that smoking causes lung cancer.
Answer D: The sample of people studied are unrepresentative of the broader population in general with respect to the likelihood that their favorite color is green.
How does their favorite color being green impact their cancer rate? We don't know. It could, but it's not super reasonable to infer that it does in a meaningful way.
Hope that helps you understand why answer choice D is pretty irrelevant to the conclusion of the stimmy. At least in my understanding. D shouldn't be tempting when there's much stronger answers that rely on far less inference
@ActuallyJozu Thank you for the explanation! This makes a lot of sense now :)
I am having trouble understanding what it means to "weaken" the reasoning. I know it means weakening the support, but am just confused how that would appear in this kind of question. Is it essentially asking which answer choice is a stronger alternative to the conclusion given in the question?
honk some more motherfucka
Loving these lessons. Respect 🫡
i keep eliminating wrong answers for the wrong reasons so task failed successfully i guess
My biggest issue is brushing past seemingly small details like I did here, which the evil test writers are banking on. Grim