Guys I highly recommend reading this instead of watching the passage!! It forces your brain to do the understanding/work. I refer to the vids only when my brain is really burned out or when I need to try and reinforce the lesson
I knew it was A or C but chose C because it felt like the part of Simpson's argument that stated why the museum was small was context. It seemed like the reasoning (or premise) to his conclusion that the size of the museum was appropriate was because it is an art museum and not an ethnographic museum designed to collect every style of every period. Thus, C, not A. #help
@HaleyWilliams If you map out the premise conclusion link, you can form an anticipated rule! Simpson's conclusion is that the small size is appropriate. The premises are that the curators believe there is little high quality art to collect (explaining the small size, as presumably they only collect this art). Therefore, Simpson's rule is that a museum's small size is appropriate if only high quality art is collected. More abstractly, If (premises) Then (Conclusion).
This explanation video makes it so much more difficult to understand this problem. Bro is just yapping and yapping. He explains this question in the most overinvolved and convoluted way. Maybe there was a better problem to use as an example of the shit you're trying to teach in this lesson. The question was way easier to understand by just reading it directly on its own instead of watching this video.
negative rules in answers signal wrong answers because they give us nothing that can explain what rule applies to the premises and conclusion to make the reasoning justified.
@Alondra_Sanchez this!! i was so confused watching the video even though i got the question confidently right when i looked at quick view. i'd hate to skip videos in case i miss something, but i feel like they make me so much more confused, especially when i got the question right already.
#help Are purpose and intention really such divorced concepts? At what point are we allowed to just assume that synonyms are synonymous? Esepcially for PSAs (and MSSs for that matter) in which the focus is not on logical completeness, it seems extremely forced to draw a distinction between these two concept. In general, what is the line of synonyms being able to be treated as the same?
#feedback i found it much more helpful when the mapping that starts at 3:30 was introduced AFTER we read Simpson's argument. Because the mapping is 99% related to simpson's argument just like the question stem asks.
My understanding of simpson's argument is:
fact : it is small because curators believe there is very little high quality contemporary art.
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conclusion: small size is appropriate
then the rule that can be applied to simpson's argument is: high quality art is a should factor for a museum to be appropriate
but then the right answer choice does not have "appropriate" in the rule. which is when we consider vandenburg's argument about a museum as a whole, including it's size and purpose.
I don't think so, Simpson's argument isn't about what the purpose of a museum should be, instead he's talking about the kind of works a museum should collect.
not to be that person, but for a curriculum that's constantly telling us "grammar is key," you think it would know the difference between 'its curators' and 'it's curators'...
I think the yap was exactly where it needed to be. The explanation in the beginning, before even getting to the response in the stimulus, was incredibly helpful. It's good to be reminded that these questions we've been getting shouldn't lull us into a false sense of security because the answers have overshot the terms of sufficiency to answer the question stem. To know there are and will be answers that will also undershoot but also be correct in this section is extremely helpful. On top of that, J.Y. going fully through an example was more than helpful.
Wow. I just submitted feedback today talking about how I thought this was some sort of fault of default options in the content-creation side of things on the site to not have the options show up by default. I had no idea and did not catch onto the fact that this was a random glitch.
No way they don't have some sort of "if" statement in the coding to make sure that the options of the video have loaded. This revelation blows my mind.
This happens to me too, and I realized the speed is just stuck on the speed you set for an earlier video. I just go back to the last video where I had those control options and set it back to normal speed there, and then return to the video I was watching, which should now be set to normal speed again.
will answer choices always match the positive or negative language in the stimulus? or will it ever be the contrapositive? (C), (B), and (E). Can we always cross these out immediately?
In my experience, there have been contrapositives in every section, and they are usually the harder ranked questions. Not impossible that it could be different for this section though
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I wanted to ask a question here about what the video meant about the negative prescriptions... what about them? that part was so confusing to me
This video was not it.
This is your sign to use your complementary option of skipping this video.
@IslamUmarov When the goat speaks i listen #roadto1000
@CarlosHernandez03 SUUUUIIII 180
Guys I highly recommend reading this instead of watching the passage!! It forces your brain to do the understanding/work. I refer to the vids only when my brain is really burned out or when I need to try and reinforce the lesson
I knew it was A or C but chose C because it felt like the part of Simpson's argument that stated why the museum was small was context. It seemed like the reasoning (or premise) to his conclusion that the size of the museum was appropriate was because it is an art museum and not an ethnographic museum designed to collect every style of every period. Thus, C, not A. #help
I watched like maybe 4 min, the explanation was so boring, i paused the explanation and tried to do the question on my own, and got it right.
#feedback this explanation is lowkey very convoluted and doesn't translate well to doing this question in 1-2 minutes on a real test
How do we get to that formal logic rule? I do not understand how it can be almost predicted what the rule should look like, before we get to that rule
@HaleyWilliams If you map out the premise conclusion link, you can form an anticipated rule! Simpson's conclusion is that the small size is appropriate. The premises are that the curators believe there is little high quality art to collect (explaining the small size, as presumably they only collect this art). Therefore, Simpson's rule is that a museum's small size is appropriate if only high quality art is collected. More abstractly, If (premises) Then (Conclusion).
This explanation video makes it so much more difficult to understand this problem. Bro is just yapping and yapping. He explains this question in the most overinvolved and convoluted way. Maybe there was a better problem to use as an example of the shit you're trying to teach in this lesson. The question was way easier to understand by just reading it directly on its own instead of watching this video.
@ActuallyJozu Damn, I was harsh af here... my apologies
Is the thing about negative rules applicable to all of these valid principle questions or just this one
negative rules in answers signal wrong answers because they give us nothing that can explain what rule applies to the premises and conclusion to make the reasoning justified.
is it just me or is all the talking so unnecessary like, actually makes it so much more confusing than it has to be????
@Alondra_Sanchez this!! i was so confused watching the video even though i got the question confidently right when i looked at quick view. i'd hate to skip videos in case i miss something, but i feel like they make me so much more confused, especially when i got the question right already.
@Alondra_Sanchez yap city on this one
#help Are purpose and intention really such divorced concepts? At what point are we allowed to just assume that synonyms are synonymous? Esepcially for PSAs (and MSSs for that matter) in which the focus is not on logical completeness, it seems extremely forced to draw a distinction between these two concept. In general, what is the line of synonyms being able to be treated as the same?
#feedback i found it much more helpful when the mapping that starts at 3:30 was introduced AFTER we read Simpson's argument. Because the mapping is 99% related to simpson's argument just like the question stem asks.
My understanding of simpson's argument is:
fact : it is small because curators believe there is very little high quality contemporary art.
-----------------------
conclusion: small size is appropriate
then the rule that can be applied to simpson's argument is: high quality art is a should factor for a museum to be appropriate
but then the right answer choice does not have "appropriate" in the rule. which is when we consider vandenburg's argument about a museum as a whole, including it's size and purpose.
blah blah proper name back story, get to the POINT
Right - this should NOT take 17 minutes to explain.
Say what?!
Question on ACs. Would D be correct if it didn't include "ethnographic" as a qualifier?
I don't think so, Simpson's argument isn't about what the purpose of a museum should be, instead he's talking about the kind of works a museum should collect.
#help are correct AC's for PSA questions more likely to be stated in conditional language?
not to be that person, but for a curriculum that's constantly telling us "grammar is key," you think it would know the difference between 'its curators' and 'it's curators'...
I second this.
#feedback more concise explanations - yap meter is too high
I think the yap was exactly where it needed to be. The explanation in the beginning, before even getting to the response in the stimulus, was incredibly helpful. It's good to be reminded that these questions we've been getting shouldn't lull us into a false sense of security because the answers have overshot the terms of sufficiency to answer the question stem. To know there are and will be answers that will also undershoot but also be correct in this section is extremely helpful. On top of that, J.Y. going fully through an example was more than helpful.
Damn, Simpson was so vile to Vanderburg
i dont know if its the lack of sleep, but this video made me very very angry
real
me too
This video is stuck on double speed and none of the options are popping up to slow it down, pause, etc. Anybody have any suggestions? #feedback
Wow. I just submitted feedback today talking about how I thought this was some sort of fault of default options in the content-creation side of things on the site to not have the options show up by default. I had no idea and did not catch onto the fact that this was a random glitch.
No way they don't have some sort of "if" statement in the coding to make sure that the options of the video have loaded. This revelation blows my mind.
This happens to me too, and I realized the speed is just stuck on the speed you set for an earlier video. I just go back to the last video where I had those control options and set it back to normal speed there, and then return to the video I was watching, which should now be set to normal speed again.
Whenever something like this happens, refresh the page until you get those options. Sometimes it takes 2-3 refreshes in my case.
swears, this explanation boggles my mind
will answer choices always match the positive or negative language in the stimulus? or will it ever be the contrapositive? (C), (B), and (E). Can we always cross these out immediately?
I have the same question
In my experience, there have been contrapositives in every section, and they are usually the harder ranked questions. Not impossible that it could be different for this section though
#help I am wondering this as well