#feedback I'd love it if we could get a link to view the question with answer choices by themselves before receiving the answer and walking through the explanations presented in this section. That way, we would benefit from both doing the actual question and reviewing them with comprehensive explanations.
^This goes for all RC/LR questions that we don't also get tested on. Thanks!
Anybody else not finding a quick view option? Author's attitude is an area with which I struggle and really wanted the option to answer on my own first. Thanks!
would it be wrong that I simply looked at the verbs used and quickly eliminated ABDE?
I didn't think that the author showed respect or admiration/appreciation. the author was definitely neutral toward experts, so I just jumped at C (and read it to confirm the whole thing sounded right) #help
I feel like that is totally chill for this question since so many of the verbs were so inaccurate. Definitely BDE can be eliminated, A is still somewhat accurate but it is so weak.
I guess I just disagree with your analysis for A, although I overall agree that C is the best answer. Here is why.
When it asks for "expert testimony", it seems quite fair and even the best interpretation to bifurcate the custom-made illustrations from "expert testimony." The two might be complementary, but they are not one "thing", right? Does that make sense?
Upon the distinction of the two, would it then not make sense to say that the verbose nature of the testimonies makes it less effective in either one, establishing the facts of the case or two, assisting one side in making their case? And given that, would it be unfair to classify the author as skeptical of that? I think the broader point is that without the illustrations, he is skeptical that the facts could be clearly outlined with solely an expert testimony.
Additionally, C states "...awareness of the limitations..." while that is definitely a tempered or less extreme than the verbiage in A, am I wrong to say that they're on the same "spectrum" of skepticism?
Appreciate the videos and the lessons. Hope this doesn't come across as abrasive.
@Andrew.spiers2 I am also having a hard time eliminating A. I see that C is better but the mental gymnastics to preclude A seem as complicated as the mental gymnastics to choose C. I choose C just because it is more central to the point of the passage, but both A and C seems accurate to me.
@Andrew.spiers2 nowhere in the passage does the author imply they have appreciation for the difficulty of the medical expert's task of explaining things. It discusses how verbal explanations can be difficult to comprehend for judges and jury not well versed in the medical field. Difficulty relating to the explanations themselves, not relating to the medical expert's task in getting the point across.
@Andrew.spiers2 I, too, found the explanation differentiating A from C unsatisfactory. Skepticism (of the effectiveness in being understood) seemed like a weak line of attack, considering that's the exact reason the author suggests custom medical pictures would be helpful - in shoring up a gap in understanding. If there is a gap in understanding, that suggests that the expert medical testimony alone is less effective than it could or should be. I find that C captures the idea better than A as a whole, but not because the second part of the statement in A is wrong in any way -I think it is entirely correct, C is just more correct because "awareness of limitations" is weaker and thus more applicable, and because it specifies the nature of the problem with expert medical testimony, that being that it is entirely verbal.
The analysis in the video implied that we can rule out A on the basis of the word skepticism. I don't agree - C is right because the question stem says ". . . is MOST accurately described as". Both are accurate. C is simply more accurate, but I don't think we can rule out A other than via a direct comparison with answer C.
I think the stronger case against answer A is really in attacking the first half of the answer (appreciation of the difficulty) rather than the last half (skepticism); there is less textual evidence to support this than the very general and implied "acceptance of the accuracy" found in answer C. When you take in A holistically, it conveys the vague idea that the inadequacy of expert medical testimony as a problem that is being solved by the pictures, with this as their purpose, and I didn't see that as the main point of the passage.
Reading the passage and answering questions about what it said is pretty straight forward. It's when they want you to read OFF the page that things can go awry. Inferring information about what the author's attitude is or what they're likely to believe as a result of their beliefs drives me crazy!
i ruled out A because I thought appreciate was too strong. i just saw the author's view as neutral leaning towards trusting their perspective. i guess that could be see as "appreciate"... thoughts?
#feedback even when introducing new concepts, even if it's not a full "you try," it'd be nice to get the questions and answers in text form first so we can give it a shot ourselves and then see if our instinct matches up with the correct answer, as explained in the video! tyyy mucho
I found this question relatively harder than all other questions up until now. Any advice on how to annotate at first to remember the author's attitude towards the medical testimony?
I agree C is the perfect answer. However the explanation for A on its own feels incomplete because it does not break down the phrase "relies on", which leaves unclear the liberties we can take in interpretting answers.
Reading the text, one interpretation is that we have
1. The expert's testimony, which relies on
2. a seperate entity, Illustrations.
If they are seperate entities, and the text supports that purely verbal info is hard to understand, it would seem that by the interpretation of Effectiveness as Understandability, the author/text are indicating that the testimony ALONE is in fact not effective, which could be read as Skepticism.
tldr: when one thing RELIES ON another, can they be said to be the same thing? Must the author's attitude towards one thing include all things connected to that thing? Im sure it varies but the answer seems to take this for granted.
that sometimes happens for me randomly on 7sage vids. I have the ability to change the speed and open full screen right now. If this ever happens to you, you just need to refresh your browser or clear cache and cookies. Hope this helps!
could we have back the ability to review and click on specific answers like LR section? That was helpful to focus on one specific answer I may not have understood.
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I thought it was D originally but I see now that it was too extreme, C was my second choice
how am I supposed to practice low-res summaries if I cant draw on the test like he does in the videos?
@dancingqueen138 he wants you to do it on paper at first then get to where you can do it all inside your head.
#feedback I'd love it if we could get a link to view the question with answer choices by themselves before receiving the answer and walking through the explanations presented in this section. That way, we would benefit from both doing the actual question and reviewing them with comprehensive explanations.
^This goes for all RC/LR questions that we don't also get tested on. Thanks!
@EmoryMcDowell if you click on "show question" you get the passage + question stem + answer choices :) same for LR.
@tsandin this is extremely helpful - clearly I didn't pay attention during parts of the intro modules :) Thank you!
@EmoryMcDowell you're welcome! the same thing happened to me haha
Anybody else not finding a quick view option? Author's attitude is an area with which I struggle and really wanted the option to answer on my own first. Thanks!
@Amanhasnoname It's the little button under the title that says "show question". Sorry if I'm too late to help.
@Venable30 Thanks. When I was answering the question, I SWEAR it wasn't there:) I use quick-view all the time.
would it be wrong that I simply looked at the verbs used and quickly eliminated ABDE?
I didn't think that the author showed respect or admiration/appreciation. the author was definitely neutral toward experts, so I just jumped at C (and read it to confirm the whole thing sounded right) #help
I feel like that is totally chill for this question since so many of the verbs were so inaccurate. Definitely BDE can be eliminated, A is still somewhat accurate but it is so weak.
Kevin,
I guess I just disagree with your analysis for A, although I overall agree that C is the best answer. Here is why.
When it asks for "expert testimony", it seems quite fair and even the best interpretation to bifurcate the custom-made illustrations from "expert testimony." The two might be complementary, but they are not one "thing", right? Does that make sense?
Upon the distinction of the two, would it then not make sense to say that the verbose nature of the testimonies makes it less effective in either one, establishing the facts of the case or two, assisting one side in making their case? And given that, would it be unfair to classify the author as skeptical of that? I think the broader point is that without the illustrations, he is skeptical that the facts could be clearly outlined with solely an expert testimony.
Additionally, C states "...awareness of the limitations..." while that is definitely a tempered or less extreme than the verbiage in A, am I wrong to say that they're on the same "spectrum" of skepticism?
Appreciate the videos and the lessons. Hope this doesn't come across as abrasive.
Andrew
@Andrew.spiers2 I am also having a hard time eliminating A. I see that C is better but the mental gymnastics to preclude A seem as complicated as the mental gymnastics to choose C. I choose C just because it is more central to the point of the passage, but both A and C seems accurate to me.
@Andrew.spiers2 nowhere in the passage does the author imply they have appreciation for the difficulty of the medical expert's task of explaining things. It discusses how verbal explanations can be difficult to comprehend for judges and jury not well versed in the medical field. Difficulty relating to the explanations themselves, not relating to the medical expert's task in getting the point across.
@Andrew.spiers2 I, too, found the explanation differentiating A from C unsatisfactory. Skepticism (of the effectiveness in being understood) seemed like a weak line of attack, considering that's the exact reason the author suggests custom medical pictures would be helpful - in shoring up a gap in understanding. If there is a gap in understanding, that suggests that the expert medical testimony alone is less effective than it could or should be. I find that C captures the idea better than A as a whole, but not because the second part of the statement in A is wrong in any way -I think it is entirely correct, C is just more correct because "awareness of limitations" is weaker and thus more applicable, and because it specifies the nature of the problem with expert medical testimony, that being that it is entirely verbal.
The analysis in the video implied that we can rule out A on the basis of the word skepticism. I don't agree - C is right because the question stem says ". . . is MOST accurately described as". Both are accurate. C is simply more accurate, but I don't think we can rule out A other than via a direct comparison with answer C.
I think the stronger case against answer A is really in attacking the first half of the answer (appreciation of the difficulty) rather than the last half (skepticism); there is less textual evidence to support this than the very general and implied "acceptance of the accuracy" found in answer C. When you take in A holistically, it conveys the vague idea that the inadequacy of expert medical testimony as a problem that is being solved by the pictures, with this as their purpose, and I didn't see that as the main point of the passage.
Reading the passage and answering questions about what it said is pretty straight forward. It's when they want you to read OFF the page that things can go awry. Inferring information about what the author's attitude is or what they're likely to believe as a result of their beliefs drives me crazy!
i ruled out A because I thought appreciate was too strong. i just saw the author's view as neutral leaning towards trusting their perspective. i guess that could be see as "appreciate"... thoughts?
"Appreciate" is being used in a different way:
to grasp the nature, worth, quality, or significance of
Ex. appreciate the difference between right and wrong
I skipped every answer except for C because the author def did not admire anyone lol
Yeah. I focused on the verbs for each answer choice. I wonder if this is a good strategy.
#feedback even when introducing new concepts, even if it's not a full "you try," it'd be nice to get the questions and answers in text form first so we can give it a shot ourselves and then see if our instinct matches up with the correct answer, as explained in the video! tyyy mucho
Click quick view!
I found this question relatively harder than all other questions up until now. Any advice on how to annotate at first to remember the author's attitude towards the medical testimony?
I agree C is the perfect answer. However the explanation for A on its own feels incomplete because it does not break down the phrase "relies on", which leaves unclear the liberties we can take in interpretting answers.
Reading the text, one interpretation is that we have
1. The expert's testimony, which relies on
2. a seperate entity, Illustrations.
If they are seperate entities, and the text supports that purely verbal info is hard to understand, it would seem that by the interpretation of Effectiveness as Understandability, the author/text are indicating that the testimony ALONE is in fact not effective, which could be read as Skepticism.
tldr: when one thing RELIES ON another, can they be said to be the same thing? Must the author's attitude towards one thing include all things connected to that thing? Im sure it varies but the answer seems to take this for granted.
#feedback there is no option to speed up, open in full screen or add subtitles here
that sometimes happens for me randomly on 7sage vids. I have the ability to change the speed and open full screen right now. If this ever happens to you, you just need to refresh your browser or clear cache and cookies. Hope this helps!
could we have back the ability to review and click on specific answers like LR section? That was helpful to focus on one specific answer I may not have understood.
This feature is being developed -- I agree that it would be helpful.
Great! thank you:)