any have tips for blind review settings? Should I have blind review on for all questions regardless of accuracy? Right now I have it on only if I got the question wrong.
D was my first choice but I changed to A because the argument says "regardless of age." Can someone please clarify why it's D a little further even though it stats regardless of age.
@Chi. D states that most people moving out of Weston are parents with children, implying that entire families are moving out at a time. D also states that those staying or moving in to Weston are older people who live alone.
Because the upcoming census counts all residents regardless of age, this implies that the next census will record mostly entire families consisting of at least 1 parent and at least 1 child leaving Weston in pairs at the very least. Meanwhile, older people are moving in to Weston 1 at a time.
Maybe just me but my initial reaction upon reading this is okayyyy what about birth and death rates? What if the birth rate is so high that it eclipses the death rate and the rate of households moving out? But I guess the answers didn't go that route.
Confused why C doesn't strengthen the argument. I thought a census was self-reported (like a survey), so if you fail to report moving in to Weston then that will artificially decrease Weston's population, ie. next year's census will show a decline in Weston's population. The census won't be absolutely correct regardless
im just thinking of weakening here, even though this is a strengthen question.
if it asks to weaken, would it look something like this:
"people moving into the city are ones looking to start new families and people moving out are ones that were living alone" - this would imply population might actually not decline, while also does not contradict premise "households moving out is greater than households moving in"
its not a great weakener in the sense that we dont know if pop would grow or remain the same, but hopefully not decline like the conclusion claims.
could you also argue that for answer C it really does not have an effect on the population since those moving in are not being recorded within the survey, so it neither has a strengthening or weakening implication on the argument because they are not being accounted for anyway?
The first time around, I completely disregarded the concept of "households" after reading the stimulus and started overanalyzing D so much that it started to sound irrelevant. Kind of scary how glossing over one word can change everything!
no, still very weak "weakener" cause it requires an unreasonable assumption that "young people dont have kids and older people with long careers have kids"
to weaken or strengthen, hold on to the original assumption gap - "household size is assumed to represent population size"
I also had C at first but my thought process for C being wrong was that it was just assuming that that many people in Weston just somehow forgot to file their address change or driver license. D you aren't assuming as much. It is not on the complete end of the strength spectrum but extremely close to the end. That's my thought process.
The census takes the actual count of people living in a neighborhood, whereas the P is about the data from the post office. So, if residents who move in fail to notify the post office etc., it is attacking the data source. No valid conclusions can be drawn from it.
I dont think C is necessarily "wrong" but more that D is the better answer. D you assume less which make the argument stronger. With C you have to assume more and hope that the assumptions are correct which we dont know from the info given.
One reason why C is wrong that I didn't see mentioned is because it says people moving into Weston failed to notify either the post office or the driver's license bureau that they had moved to the city. It doesn't say they failed to notify both. Therefore, they could still have notified one of the two and been counted in the survey.
That is actually a clue to telling us that its not just people old enough to have a license or their own address.. so it actually made it easier to select D. Its pointing us in the direction that we should be aware of the population that would not be updating licenses/addresses (aka kids) counting towards population.
For WSE Q's when we are presented with a ratio in the STIM like this question 2 to 1, if we are the S the Q that means to pick the AC the reaffirms the ratio by providing evidence (example of why that ratio is true) or simply reafirm the ratio by stating is true in some way.
Vs.
If the STIM of a WSE Q gives us a ratio and we are asked the W the arg., does that mean we must select the AC that states the ratio is in fact incorrect/proved an explanation/evidence for why the ratio is not true as the CAC or would it be dependant on the arg presented in the stem?
If someone is please able to clarify and explain that would be much appreciated!
I recognize that with anything in life in order to get faster at doing something one must practice that thing a lot to be able to do so.
I find myself getting LR questions specifically WSE q's correct the overwhelming majority with a few exceptions when it take my time bc I truly understand what is going on that way and I am able to evaluate.
As of current, on average, Iv'e been taking an extra minute over what's recommended for the practice questions.
I suppose that once u practice more ur intuition will help to guide u better so ur able to do it a lot faster, however, I wanted to enquire from those who had the same experience as I did regarding timing and other tips you have regarding being more time efficient besides practice regarding LR!
Seems like we are kinda in the same scenario. I find myself taking more time to answer the question. In turn, I end up getting it right. When I really wanna focus on an extremely thorough explanation (like JY gives in the videos), i'll end up taking more time to fully get the scope of what I am doing.
Depending on when you're doing the test, this reality might not be the same for you, but I am fine with taking a bit more time in the beggining, to cement the notions in my mind and understand why I am doing what I am doing. As JY said in the beggining, the goal is to build up a competent intuition regarding the questions.
Also, if you'd like, there's a discord made by people in the approx. region that we are at right now that i recently joined : https://discord.gg/67nqYY5c.
I chose A not realizing it says “many” which really doesn’t mean anything looking back on it now and also thinking the stimulus was talking about the number of people moving and not households. I gotta to pay super attention to this grammar.
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any have tips for blind review settings? Should I have blind review on for all questions regardless of accuracy? Right now I have it on only if I got the question wrong.
37 secs over double-checking my work, but that one was relatively simple. Yay!
Five seconds after time LETSGO
Literally was gonna go with D and then i read adults and went with E my logic makes no sense lmao
WESTON go patriots
@Arshavin GO PATRIOTS, GO CELTICS
D was my first choice but I changed to A because the argument says "regardless of age." Can someone please clarify why it's D a little further even though it stats regardless of age.
@Chi. D states that most people moving out of Weston are parents with children, implying that entire families are moving out at a time. D also states that those staying or moving in to Weston are older people who live alone.
Because the upcoming census counts all residents regardless of age, this implies that the next census will record mostly entire families consisting of at least 1 parent and at least 1 child leaving Weston in pairs at the very least. Meanwhile, older people are moving in to Weston 1 at a time.
LETS GOOOOOOOO
Maybe just me but my initial reaction upon reading this is okayyyy what about birth and death rates? What if the birth rate is so high that it eclipses the death rate and the rate of households moving out? But I guess the answers didn't go that route.
@TheBigFatPanda thats just hearsay
Confused why C doesn't strengthen the argument. I thought a census was self-reported (like a survey), so if you fail to report moving in to Weston then that will artificially decrease Weston's population, ie. next year's census will show a decline in Weston's population. The census won't be absolutely correct regardless
@GregSchwarz it wouldn't show a decline, it just wouldnt show a growth.
@GregSchwarz that would weaken the argument anyway, you would be arguing that the population might have actually grown
Didn't even take into account the population in terms of adults living alone and adults with children
im just thinking of weakening here, even though this is a strengthen question.
if it asks to weaken, would it look something like this:
"people moving into the city are ones looking to start new families and people moving out are ones that were living alone" - this would imply population might actually not decline, while also does not contradict premise "households moving out is greater than households moving in"
its not a great weakener in the sense that we dont know if pop would grow or remain the same, but hopefully not decline like the conclusion claims.
could you also argue that for answer C it really does not have an effect on the population since those moving in are not being recorded within the survey, so it neither has a strengthening or weakening implication on the argument because they are not being accounted for anyway?
The first time around, I completely disregarded the concept of "households" after reading the stimulus and started overanalyzing D so much that it started to sound irrelevant. Kind of scary how glossing over one word can change everything!
i feel like no matter what i do these strengthen and weaken questions always confuse me! :(
Dang didn't understand the difference between household and population and got E ughhh
Can E be an answer if the question was weakening question?
no, still very weak "weakener" cause it requires an unreasonable assumption that "young people dont have kids and older people with long careers have kids"
to weaken or strengthen, hold on to the original assumption gap - "household size is assumed to represent population size"
Can get why D is right but still confused why C is wrong #help
I also had C at first but my thought process for C being wrong was that it was just assuming that that many people in Weston just somehow forgot to file their address change or driver license. D you aren't assuming as much. It is not on the complete end of the strength spectrum but extremely close to the end. That's my thought process.
The census takes the actual count of people living in a neighborhood, whereas the P is about the data from the post office. So, if residents who move in fail to notify the post office etc., it is attacking the data source. No valid conclusions can be drawn from it.
I dont think C is necessarily "wrong" but more that D is the better answer. D you assume less which make the argument stronger. With C you have to assume more and hope that the assumptions are correct which we dont know from the info given.
One reason why C is wrong that I didn't see mentioned is because it says people moving into Weston failed to notify either the post office or the driver's license bureau that they had moved to the city. It doesn't say they failed to notify both. Therefore, they could still have notified one of the two and been counted in the survey.
bruh how tf did I get this one wrong 😭 I could've sworn it would be C wtffff
it happens
#feedback some videos are missing the speed toggle (0.8-2.0x) in the bottom right corner and rely on whatever speed previous videos were playing at
Sometimes I find it's my own browser and I just have to refresh the page to get it back
okaaaay?
Did anyone else find themselves confused and second-guessing answer choice D, just because it said "regardless of age"?
That is actually a clue to telling us that its not just people old enough to have a license or their own address.. so it actually made it easier to select D. Its pointing us in the direction that we should be aware of the population that would not be updating licenses/addresses (aka kids) counting towards population.
For WSE Q's when we are presented with a ratio in the STIM like this question 2 to 1, if we are the S the Q that means to pick the AC the reaffirms the ratio by providing evidence (example of why that ratio is true) or simply reafirm the ratio by stating is true in some way.
Vs.
If the STIM of a WSE Q gives us a ratio and we are asked the W the arg., does that mean we must select the AC that states the ratio is in fact incorrect/proved an explanation/evidence for why the ratio is not true as the CAC or would it be dependant on the arg presented in the stem?
If someone is please able to clarify and explain that would be much appreciated!
#help #feedback
I recognize that with anything in life in order to get faster at doing something one must practice that thing a lot to be able to do so.
I find myself getting LR questions specifically WSE q's correct the overwhelming majority with a few exceptions when it take my time bc I truly understand what is going on that way and I am able to evaluate.
As of current, on average, Iv'e been taking an extra minute over what's recommended for the practice questions.
I suppose that once u practice more ur intuition will help to guide u better so ur able to do it a lot faster, however, I wanted to enquire from those who had the same experience as I did regarding timing and other tips you have regarding being more time efficient besides practice regarding LR!
#hlep #feedback
Hey Elise,
Seems like we are kinda in the same scenario. I find myself taking more time to answer the question. In turn, I end up getting it right. When I really wanna focus on an extremely thorough explanation (like JY gives in the videos), i'll end up taking more time to fully get the scope of what I am doing.
Depending on when you're doing the test, this reality might not be the same for you, but I am fine with taking a bit more time in the beggining, to cement the notions in my mind and understand why I am doing what I am doing. As JY said in the beggining, the goal is to build up a competent intuition regarding the questions.
Also, if you'd like, there's a discord made by people in the approx. region that we are at right now that i recently joined : https://discord.gg/67nqYY5c.
Ciao!
I chose A not realizing it says “many” which really doesn’t mean anything looking back on it now and also thinking the stimulus was talking about the number of people moving and not households. I gotta to pay super attention to this grammar.