i want these principle lessons to teach us when it is reasonable to infer some things. For example, it's not the most straightforward thing to infer "mating could lead to procreation" and yet this was the correct answer.
In the harder questions, reasonable inferences get more difficult to make.
I find the link between the stimulus and principle incredibly tenuous. Is it a correct understanding that there really is no (or a very weak) causal link between small spots and vulnerability to predation presented??? The stimulus merely presents the phenomenon of small spottedness and the ability to avoid the detection of predators as coincident and not necessarily related or causal phenomenon.
Of course the correct answer is correct because it is the most correct answer choice. But it can be argued that the connection between the principle and the stimulus is tenuous at best since it requires the (easy to make) assumption of an earlier implied causal relationship
This might've only been me, but I do want to point something out on AC E.
A trait that is helpful to procreation can also hinder it in certain environments.
Did anyone else think that the "it" in answer choice E was referring to "procreation"? Looking back at it I guess it is referring to "A trait", but at first glace I thought to myself that procreation isn't hindered.
I think "it" does refer to procreation, and procreation is hindered in this case because the fish with large spots are less likely to live to maturity and therefore can't reproduce.
I'm pretty sure if you select an answer but stay on the question, it is the amount of time you had that answer selected. So if you chose the wrong answer and stayed on it for 2 minutes, then switched it to the correct one right at the end and left it for 10 seconds, it would be grey for the amount of time you waited before selecting the wrong answer which would be in red, then switch it to the correct answer which is green. However, this is what I think it does, I may be wrong
Oh man this was discouraging. I’m a fish keeper and it’s common knowledge that male guppies have patterns, and female guppies are colorless plain, so I chose A. I understood “more dangerous to one sex than to another” was correct since only males would have spots, thus only males are in danger. 1 star AND I have knowledge on the subject.
@IDontEverGiveUp hi from a year in the future! this is so true. I tend to be a very literal thinker, so when i found out that you don't use outside knowledge on the LSAT, that was my biggest struggle- to leave it all behind. The questions that happen to touch on our expertise areas are the WORST
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i want these principle lessons to teach us when it is reasonable to infer some things. For example, it's not the most straightforward thing to infer "mating could lead to procreation" and yet this was the correct answer.
In the harder questions, reasonable inferences get more difficult to make.
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yayaya GOT IT RIGHT:)
LETS GO!!!
I swore that this question was like level 3. I even took 3 minutes on it. Nope, level 1
I'm mad for not processing E and just going with B 😭
level one???? :
Right!?!? I for sure thought it was a 2, maybe 3.
Shout out to John Endler for these experiments with the guppies, and helping differentiate sexual selection v. Natural selection.
I find the link between the stimulus and principle incredibly tenuous. Is it a correct understanding that there really is no (or a very weak) causal link between small spots and vulnerability to predation presented??? The stimulus merely presents the phenomenon of small spottedness and the ability to avoid the detection of predators as coincident and not necessarily related or causal phenomenon.
Of course the correct answer is correct because it is the most correct answer choice. But it can be argued that the connection between the principle and the stimulus is tenuous at best since it requires the (easy to make) assumption of an earlier implied causal relationship
This might've only been me, but I do want to point something out on AC E.
A trait that is helpful to procreation can also hinder it in certain environments.
Did anyone else think that the "it" in answer choice E was referring to "procreation"? Looking back at it I guess it is referring to "A trait", but at first glace I thought to myself that procreation isn't hindered.
Rahhh.
I think "it" does refer to procreation, and procreation is hindered in this case because the fish with large spots are less likely to live to maturity and therefore can't reproduce.
Is the second part of this question referring to males? (guppies) you mentioned it does but there is nothing indicating this. #help
lmaoo the hypothetical principle for B was awesome
Going off this, my ass is unattractive AF :(
@xenonay LMFAO maybe for now....
how does the timing bar work when looking at past questions? why is it sometimes green and sometimes red? #feedback
u r correct
I'm pretty sure if you select an answer but stay on the question, it is the amount of time you had that answer selected. So if you chose the wrong answer and stayed on it for 2 minutes, then switched it to the correct one right at the end and left it for 10 seconds, it would be grey for the amount of time you waited before selecting the wrong answer which would be in red, then switch it to the correct answer which is green. However, this is what I think it does, I may be wrong
small spotted trinidadian guppies catching enormous strays
they have the same problem too? ...
LMAO
I chose A😭
Brutal blackpill for smallspotcels
@jasonkerr LOL
shout out my short kings yall are survivors
:)
@aneeshpatel425818 *undesirable survivors
Who else also googled Trinidadian Guppies lol
I did because of this comment; why'd I imagine them like clownfish initially
I didn't until I read this comment lol. They kinda remind me of neon tetras. Super pretty fish.
After this comment, I had to look them up.
Oh man this was discouraging. I’m a fish keeper and it’s common knowledge that male guppies have patterns, and female guppies are colorless plain, so I chose A. I understood “more dangerous to one sex than to another” was correct since only males would have spots, thus only males are in danger. 1 star AND I have knowledge on the subject.
Don't get discouraged! It is important I think to leave all background information we may have outside when we try to solve these questions.
@IDontEverGiveUp hi from a year in the future! this is so true. I tend to be a very literal thinker, so when i found out that you don't use outside knowledge on the LSAT, that was my biggest struggle- to leave it all behind. The questions that happen to touch on our expertise areas are the WORST