A lot of these are pretty easy, you just read the stimulus and think... what's wrong with this? Why wouldn't people choose the option they say they want if they say they want it? The answer is probably something like D, where they just don't know that what they want is an option! I find the trick to solve these, from 1 star to 5 is literally just what sounds simple enough to break the reasoning. Yep.
I HATE flaw but as soon as I read "apparent discrepancy" and realized it was RRE I immediately gained confidence and got this right. What mind fuckery.
what confuses me is that in earlier lessons, we were taught to accept the premises in any given stimulus as being true -- namely, to not question the studies presented. How do we know when to apply this rule or not, since in this prompt, we didn't apply it.
If we changed the wording in answer choice A from "Because, several of the candidates........" to "Although, several of the candidates......" could this then become an answer that would reconcile at least some of the discrepancy exhibited?
I understood the students "preference" to mean that there are other (perhaps more important) factors the students might consider when choosing their university president. However, I understand that I smuggled the assumption that the students did in fact have other criteria in mind that might have overridden their want for a president with experience when I chose answer A.
going to vomit if another different question type gets snuck into the very topic specific lesson of a completely different topic type
my brain gets so hardwired doing one question type all day that i dont even process the different question type because I'm so focused in on understanding what IM CURRENTLY TRYING TO LEARN
Really like when you guys do review questions like this...it helps not to forget former lessons...only critique is there should maybe be more review questions like this one throughout the curriculum.
I don't understand why E is wrong. I didn't see E as ignoring the fact that the students expressed a preference. What I thought was that 'preference' does not equate to choosing someone on the basis of that preference. Just because I prefer to do something, doesn't mean I'll NECESSARILY do something? It could be that the person chosen in the poll was just someone the students thought so well-suited to the job of president that it overwhelmed their earlier-stated preference.
I understand why D is the correct answer, but I still feel like B is plausible:
Most students want someone with experience, lets say this is 60% of those surveyed. Couldn't it be possible for those 60% of people who felt this way to split their votes among leading candidates with experience being a university president so that none of those candidates would be the favorite? So despite the fact that more people voted for experienced candidates, they did not agree on which experienced candidate was best and left the door open for an in-experienced candidate to take the majority of responses. I feel like that's totally plausible and reasonable, but what am I not getting here?
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For answer choice B, could it be correct if it was "all" instead of "most"?
Saw the question stimulus and was like this is NOT a flaw type question, panicked, and still got it right. Maybe there's hope for me after all.
oooo this question almost got me lol
J.Y. asked if there are other reasons that could explain the phenomenon. My first thought was.
AC) All the candidates who had extensive experience were recently involved in a corruption scandal.
that would makes sense because the stim doesn't tell us if experience is the only thing the students value.
A lot of these are pretty easy, you just read the stimulus and think... what's wrong with this? Why wouldn't people choose the option they say they want if they say they want it? The answer is probably something like D, where they just don't know that what they want is an option! I find the trick to solve these, from 1 star to 5 is literally just what sounds simple enough to break the reasoning. Yep.
We did so many flaw questions so I did not even read the question. Answered it like a flaw and got it wrong. #Oops </3
I HATE flaw but as soon as I read "apparent discrepancy" and realized it was RRE I immediately gained confidence and got this right. What mind fuckery.
I would like to have Dumbledore as president too JY
Got D but then chose A in blind review :(
what confuses me is that in earlier lessons, we were taught to accept the premises in any given stimulus as being true -- namely, to not question the studies presented. How do we know when to apply this rule or not, since in this prompt, we didn't apply it.
If we changed the wording in answer choice A from "Because, several of the candidates........" to "Although, several of the candidates......" could this then become an answer that would reconcile at least some of the discrepancy exhibited?
I understood the students "preference" to mean that there are other (perhaps more important) factors the students might consider when choosing their university president. However, I understand that I smuggled the assumption that the students did in fact have other criteria in mind that might have overridden their want for a president with experience when I chose answer A.
I guess there’s a method to the madness. I got almost all of the RRE questions wrong during that lesson. I got this one right immediately.
"3 seconds slower than target" dude just let me be happy.
going to vomit if another different question type gets snuck into the very topic specific lesson of a completely different topic type
my brain gets so hardwired doing one question type all day that i dont even process the different question type because I'm so focused in on understanding what IM CURRENTLY TRYING TO LEARN
They were trying to rig it for Jeff. Investigations into this matter are needed.
Did not even realize it was RRE. Explains why I got it correct easily.
Really like when you guys do review questions like this...it helps not to forget former lessons...only critique is there should maybe be more review questions like this one throughout the curriculum.
#feedback
SMH thought that since its question 25 they would want to trick me so I chose AC E -_-
you sly dog... still got it right tho but had to read the question stem like 3 times bcz I was like huh
had D but changed to A in BR. I was confused because I thought this was a flaw question and questioned answer choice D
I felt a little on edge after the question we studied in the previous lesson.
I don't understand why E is wrong. I didn't see E as ignoring the fact that the students expressed a preference. What I thought was that 'preference' does not equate to choosing someone on the basis of that preference. Just because I prefer to do something, doesn't mean I'll NECESSARILY do something? It could be that the person chosen in the poll was just someone the students thought so well-suited to the job of president that it overwhelmed their earlier-stated preference.
I understand why D is the correct answer, but I still feel like B is plausible:
Most students want someone with experience, lets say this is 60% of those surveyed. Couldn't it be possible for those 60% of people who felt this way to split their votes among leading candidates with experience being a university president so that none of those candidates would be the favorite? So despite the fact that more people voted for experienced candidates, they did not agree on which experienced candidate was best and left the door open for an in-experienced candidate to take the majority of responses. I feel like that's totally plausible and reasonable, but what am I not getting here?