I got this question right, but it took me a long time because I couldn't understand what the stimulus was saying at all. After about 10 minutes, I gave up trying to fully understand it and looked at the answer choices instead. At that point, it was pretty obvious which answer was wrong.
Need to trust when I know an answer is right! I saw 40-60 years olds and was like "wait but what about first years?"
If I didn't understand why an answer is right, I definitely need to parse the grammar of an answer like B. But confidence means I can skip over any ones I find vaguely confusing.
@IsabellaP the psychiatrist's hypothesis acts like an implicit conclusion to their argument of the causal relationship- spending does not decrease a/d. the prediction is just applying their hypothesis to a possible situation, e.g. if students decreased their spending
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
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I got this question right, but it took me a long time because I couldn't understand what the stimulus was saying at all. After about 10 minutes, I gave up trying to fully understand it and looked at the answer choices instead. At that point, it was pretty obvious which answer was wrong.
Need to trust when I know an answer is right! I saw 40-60 years olds and was like "wait but what about first years?"
If I didn't understand why an answer is right, I definitely need to parse the grammar of an answer like B. But confidence means I can skip over any ones I find vaguely confusing.
Got it right but over time by 40 sec!
I suck at these. I'm so quick to go "age 40-60? that has nothing to do with the argument. ELIMINATE"
When that is precisely why its the answer in a EXCEPT question. The except ones get me like 50%+ of the time...
whats the difference between hypothesis and prediction?
@IsabellaP the psychiatrist's hypothesis acts like an implicit conclusion to their argument of the causal relationship- spending does not decrease a/d. the prediction is just applying their hypothesis to a possible situation, e.g. if students decreased their spending
I wasn't too confident about this one but im glad it was right
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?
@MarisolSanchez that is what i was thinking as well
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!