For those of you wondering how to best interpret what (A) is saying...after reading it 2,000 times in my head:
(A) Indicating the state of affairs on which the economist's prediction was conditioned did not obtain
Breakdown:
1) "State of Affairs" = circumstances (eventual recession)
2) "On which the economist's prediction was conditioned" = indicates that the circumstances (eventual recession) were conditional on a trigger/sequence of events (inaction by politicians)
3)"Did not Obtain" = didn't occur
Watch what happens when we water it down:
The circumstances described by the author required a trigger/sequence of events, and that trigger/sequence didn't occur.
The fact that though his prediction was ultimately wrong in the end, the economist was only wrong because politicians noticed the potential consequences and intervened. He probably maintains that without this intervention, his prediction would have prevailed.
Glad to see others got caught up as well on A being worded so weirdly with the use of "obtain" like that. Knowing the supposed 'GigaBrains™' of the test writers its probably linguistically correct, but hot DAMN is it a weird thing to pull even for a difficulty 4 problem. Like if it was written slightly differently I might've chosen it first
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Unreal working on this question on July 17th when JY specifically mentions the July 17th NYTimes during the answer choice E explanation.
lol I did this one ages ago and still got it wrong again
Day 35 of being positive that I'll get all of these LR topics and do well on the LSAT.... sobs
I get so bungled by these double and triple negatives. I get it now.. they did not not change... Fooled me again LSAT.
"obtain" basically was a synonym for "hold true" in this question.
POE left me with A, and most of the language followed correctly
got it on the BR was between a and c, but a sounded so funky I picked c first
Bro no one talks like that. These writers need to touch grass. "did not obtain"?? get out of here.
@Njbrunette LOL
didn't choose A cause I thought it was a mishmash answer, it was so poorly worded. wtf? 'did not obtain'?
Can't say I've ever seen "did not obtain" used that way in a sentence. Definitely threw me off.
I really should have read more books growing up. DID NOT OBTAIN?? Bro, just say that the policy did or didn't change. DAMN.
Thank God we're all on the same page!
For those of you wondering how to best interpret what (A) is saying...after reading it 2,000 times in my head:
(A) Indicating the state of affairs on which the economist's prediction was conditioned did not obtain
Breakdown:
1) "State of Affairs" = circumstances (eventual recession)
2) "On which the economist's prediction was conditioned" = indicates that the circumstances (eventual recession) were conditional on a trigger/sequence of events (inaction by politicians)
3) "Did not Obtain" = didn't occur
Watch what happens when we water it down:
The circumstances described by the author required a trigger/sequence of events, and that trigger/sequence didn't occur.
The fact that though his prediction was ultimately wrong in the end, the economist was only wrong because politicians noticed the potential consequences and intervened. He probably maintains that without this intervention, his prediction would have prevailed.
Glad to see others got caught up as well on A being worded so weirdly with the use of "obtain" like that. Knowing the supposed 'GigaBrains™' of the test writers its probably linguistically correct, but hot DAMN is it a weird thing to pull even for a difficulty 4 problem. Like if it was written slightly differently I might've chosen it first
Never heard the word obtain used quite like that
@JohnThorn lmao
POE got this right for me.
Obtain what?!? Like, what are you saying bruv
@mrunordinary lmao
A just sounds like the Answer was cut off... what kind of sentence is that????
The state of grammar on which my answer was conditioned did not obtain.
didnt know obtain could be used like that
Lesson in vocab in the middle of a lesson on MoR. Nice.
i didnt understand A, but i chose it because i knew none of the others were correct.
ate that
@jessverpez precisely how I feel even though the correct answer I did obtain.