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
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.
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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.
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
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.