I just skimmed through the answers and immediately picked c when I noticed that that answer had the opposite intended effect and just knew it was right. got it right with 52 seconds still below the goal!
I don't understand why 40-60 year olds are relevant here if we are talking about first year students...I immediately dismissed that answer because I thought it had nothing to do with the stimulus
If answer choice D "The screening instruments used by the psychiatrist are extremely accurate in revealing levels of anxiety and depression among university students." said that the screening instruments were wrong and 20 out of 100 student's data were off would that not help the argument? I know I might be nitpicking what extremely accurate means but if it said that the instruments weren't actually accurate could you then conclude that we can't say that if students spend more their anxiety and depression wouldn't increase? Thank you in advance.
I am so silly !! I was doing this and I was like C isn't relevant we don't care about 40-60 year olds and I didn't choose it and was like why is everything a strengthener lol
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
B states that students with moderate levels of spending on recreation experience less anxiety or depression.
The hypotheses state that those with a high level of spending could lower their spending without increasing their anxiety or depression (it can decrease or stay the same ).
Moderate spenders experience less anxiety, and low spenders experience the same anxiety and depression as high spenders. Therefore, B helps the argument.
I plugged B into the hypothesis. It said that they could decrease spending without increasing level of stress or anxiety. B said moderate spending decreased stress and anxiety. They show a decrease in spending without increasing stress and anxiety which offers support to hypothesis.
I don't think it is ever a waste of time, but it is fairly important to watch the video if you don't know why or how to eliminate the wrong answer choices.
I also like to listen to why the right answer is right, just to make sure my intuition/logic is lining up with expectations, and that I did not come to the right answer via a fluke.
For the very easy questions, where I know for fact I understood the argument and why the wrong choices are wrong, I just skip. But maybe that's problematic, who knows.
@aayushi2001vani20877 If I get it wrong, I watch intently even if I already figured out my blunder. If I get it right, but some of the answer choices felt tempting, I will watch why the correct answer is right, why the tempting answers were wrong, and skip through the rest of the BS answers. I very often skip through the opening about the stimmy, unless I don't understand wtf it was saying, which has been rare so far. However, if you're having trouble parsing the grammar and logic of the stimuli, then you should not skip that part.
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 ?
D Strengthens the argument by saying how the tools are more accurate. If the tools are extremely accurate, it's less likely that they made an error and that the conclusion is correct. If D had said "the tools are almost always wrong when measuring anxiety and depression" it would be more correct as that would weaken the argument.
The question stem asked what did NOT strengthen the argument. I ruled out C because it introduced the 40-60 year olds while the question stimulus talks about first year students. It doesn't strengthen the argument because it's a) talking about a different group of people without making a clear connection.
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These make so much more sense to me than the experiment issue/alt hypotheses ones, help!
I just skimmed through the answers and immediately picked c when I noticed that that answer had the opposite intended effect and just knew it was right. got it right with 52 seconds still below the goal!
Can C be the right answer just because it is irrelevant so it is not strengthening like the rest of the choices?
I don't understand why 40-60 year olds are relevant here if we are talking about first year students...I immediately dismissed that answer because I thought it had nothing to do with the stimulus
@Jasmin13 here is my question to you : why discriminate and think the only 1st year students are the ones in their 20s ?! 😂
Got it wrong the first attempt then got it right on the BR, dont know why I overlooked that one :/
Literally had an facepalm moment when I re-read C in BR.
i got confused thinking strengthen except means weaken so I immediately crossed out C because the phenomenon doesnt even mention 40-60 years old.
@jrm98
1000% exactly what I did. Should've read the entire thing.
If answer choice D "The screening instruments used by the psychiatrist are extremely accurate in revealing levels of anxiety and depression among university students." said that the screening instruments were wrong and 20 out of 100 student's data were off would that not help the argument? I know I might be nitpicking what extremely accurate means but if it said that the instruments weren't actually accurate could you then conclude that we can't say that if students spend more their anxiety and depression wouldn't increase? Thank you in advance.
BTW, there are 40-60 yr olds in first year :)
I am so silly !! I was doing this and I was like C isn't relevant we don't care about 40-60 year olds and I didn't choose it and was like why is everything a strengthener lol
this took me so long bc i thought it was a trick question lol
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
@Sunday_Blues13 I KNOWWW it took me like 9 decades this question
@DakshMalik same :(
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
@Ramen123 a blunder as classic as challenging a sicilian when death is on the line
@Tobykenobi INCONCEIVABLE!
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.
I thought the same thing! But then I read the other ones and I was like.. Let me see what happens. And I got it correct!
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
B states that students with moderate levels of spending on recreation experience less anxiety or depression.
The hypotheses state that those with a high level of spending could lower their spending without increasing their anxiety or depression (it can decrease or stay the same ).
Moderate spenders experience less anxiety, and low spenders experience the same anxiety and depression as high spenders. Therefore, B helps the argument.
I plugged B into the hypothesis. It said that they could decrease spending without increasing level of stress or anxiety. B said moderate spending decreased stress and anxiety. They show a decrease in spending without increasing stress and anxiety which offers support to hypothesis.
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same
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?
Honestly, it depends.
I don't think it is ever a waste of time, but it is fairly important to watch the video if you don't know why or how to eliminate the wrong answer choices.
I also like to listen to why the right answer is right, just to make sure my intuition/logic is lining up with expectations, and that I did not come to the right answer via a fluke.
For the very easy questions, where I know for fact I understood the argument and why the wrong choices are wrong, I just skip. But maybe that's problematic, who knows.
@aayushi2001vani20877 If I get it wrong, I watch intently even if I already figured out my blunder. If I get it right, but some of the answer choices felt tempting, I will watch why the correct answer is right, why the tempting answers were wrong, and skip through the rest of the BS answers. I very often skip through the opening about the stimmy, unless I don't understand wtf it was saying, which has been rare so far. However, if you're having trouble parsing the grammar and logic of the stimuli, then you should not skip that part.
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 ?
D Strengthens the argument by saying how the tools are more accurate. If the tools are extremely accurate, it's less likely that they made an error and that the conclusion is correct. If D had said "the tools are almost always wrong when measuring anxiety and depression" it would be more correct as that would weaken the argument.
The question stem asked what did NOT strengthen the argument. I ruled out C because it introduced the 40-60 year olds while the question stimulus talks about first year students. It doesn't strengthen the argument because it's a) talking about a different group of people without making a clear connection.