For B, I understand how it strengthens the prediction, but does it not technically undermine the hypothesis because the hypothesis is that spending less does not reduce a/d. And in B it is showing that it CAN reduce a/d.
Or is it that because the hypothesis is something we infer/take as implied, it doesn’t matter that B doesn’t line up with the inferred hypothesis? Especially since it liens up with the prediction?
sometimes i am so sure of the answer, but it seems so obvious (like this one, cause who tf said anything about old people) -- but becuse it's so obvious, i hesitate and waste time ahhhhhh
Can someone provide an explanation as to why B isn't correct? I see why C is correct after watching the video- because it does nothing for the argument. But, it seems like B was a good fit to the argument
ugh i am not sure why but i chose D last minute since I was second-guessing. The accuracy of the psychatrists tools doesn't seem as relevant to strengthening the argument as C does initally. #help ?
so does the subject not matter in these kinds of questions, I remember doing other questions and JY would say this is not the subject we are talking about so we dont care what it says (which is what I did and canceled C out) I see why C is right now but want to make sure my approach is right. #help
I misinterpreted the question stem as which one weakens the argument, not which one does not strengthen the argument. I knew C didn't strengthen the argument but couldn't understand why it weakened it, therefore I didn't pick it and got it wrong. Make sure to read and understand fully the question stem.
I'm having a tough time with just reading everything. I have to back track like 15 times to just grasp what the stimulus and choices are saying. And I have to read it slowly. I spend like 20 minutes on a question, no matter how short it is. Is this normal?
Is it not true that, accepting AC B as true, as a high-spending student decreases their spending their anxiety will at first decrease until they go below the threshold of moderate spending and then their anxiety will begin to INCREASE? The stimulus does not specify an overall increase in anxiety or an increase in their current level of anxiety, but rather that there will be no increase at all as a student reduces spending.
Should we assume that as long as one interpretation of the answer would strengthen the argument, then we can ignore all other interpretations and move on? #help
For any W or S questions, can we also place the answers on a spectrum of support? Since we are looking for the answer which best weakens or strengthens that question?
To anyone asking about lawgic, I havent wrote down lawgic since MBT questions.
I chose answer C mainly because we are not talking about 40-60 year olds and has no bearing on the argument. Yes, we can make the assumption that it might correlate somehow with the college students. However, I have noticed more times than not, the LSAT will pow pow your hand if you do that. Thus getting it wrong.
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For B, I understand how it strengthens the prediction, but does it not technically undermine the hypothesis because the hypothesis is that spending less does not reduce a/d. And in B it is showing that it CAN reduce a/d.
Or is it that because the hypothesis is something we infer/take as implied, it doesn’t matter that B doesn’t line up with the inferred hypothesis? Especially since it liens up with the prediction?
sometimes i am so sure of the answer, but it seems so obvious (like this one, cause who tf said anything about old people) -- but becuse it's so obvious, i hesitate and waste time ahhhhhh
this section has showed me i would kill this test if only i wasnt such a slow reader
Such an easy question but the wording in the stimulus took me a minute and a half to read and understand
Got this one ez in under a minute! Hell yeah!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I MISSED THE "EXCEPT" AGAIN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
My brain was and still is incapable of comprehending wtf the stimulus was trying to say, with that said, thank God answer choice C was there.
C is double baddd
I hesitated so much when choosing C because it seemed too easy, I fully thought it was a trap answer choice.
Can someone provide an explanation as to why B isn't correct? I see why C is correct after watching the video- because it does nothing for the argument. But, it seems like B was a good fit to the argument
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Is it bad that I understand why the answer is correct, but I am not fully understanding the casual mechanism part?
is it a okay to not watch the video if i got it right?
ugh i am not sure why but i chose D last minute since I was second-guessing. The accuracy of the psychatrists tools doesn't seem as relevant to strengthening the argument as C does initally. #help ?
"there is another way to identify the correct answer... and that is to identify the correct answer"
-JY
so does the subject not matter in these kinds of questions, I remember doing other questions and JY would say this is not the subject we are talking about so we dont care what it says (which is what I did and canceled C out) I see why C is right now but want to make sure my approach is right. #help
AYY got it on my first try
I misinterpreted the question stem as which one weakens the argument, not which one does not strengthen the argument. I knew C didn't strengthen the argument but couldn't understand why it weakened it, therefore I didn't pick it and got it wrong. Make sure to read and understand fully the question stem.
I'm having a tough time with just reading everything. I have to back track like 15 times to just grasp what the stimulus and choices are saying. And I have to read it slowly. I spend like 20 minutes on a question, no matter how short it is. Is this normal?
40 second answer to the tune of "one of these things is not like the others, one of these things doesn't belong"
god these except questions will kill me I know it
Is it not true that, accepting AC B as true, as a high-spending student decreases their spending their anxiety will at first decrease until they go below the threshold of moderate spending and then their anxiety will begin to INCREASE? The stimulus does not specify an overall increase in anxiety or an increase in their current level of anxiety, but rather that there will be no increase at all as a student reduces spending.
Should we assume that as long as one interpretation of the answer would strengthen the argument, then we can ignore all other interpretations and move on? #help
For any W or S questions, can we also place the answers on a spectrum of support? Since we are looking for the answer which best weakens or strengthens that question?
I tell myself out loud that it is an EXCEPT question and then instantly forget while reading the answers
To anyone asking about lawgic, I havent wrote down lawgic since MBT questions.
I chose answer C mainly because we are not talking about 40-60 year olds and has no bearing on the argument. Yes, we can make the assumption that it might correlate somehow with the college students. However, I have noticed more times than not, the LSAT will pow pow your hand if you do that. Thus getting it wrong.