It helped me to understand #5 by adding the [bracketed] words below:
At least 59 percent of households maintained a lower indoor temperature [this year] than they had been accustomed to maintain on very cold days [last year].
"things" being compared: indoor temperature [this year] vs. indoor temperature [last year]
YO I GOT ALL BUT 5 CORRECT BUT ME AND 5 WERE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER LIKE "I KNOW YOU KNOW ME BUT GONE HEAD FIGURE IT OUT", I still got her wrong but 4/5 is better than my last attempt only getting 2 right hello
Hello :) I really wish our answers in the text box were saved; it would be great to go back and reflect on how our answers and logical thinking/ breakdown have changed/developed! Just a suggestion :)
for number 5, almost see that it's a statistic reporting events or findings and looking through it on those lens helps to better identify the accustomed to/past vs. now
What can be so disorienting about LSAT stimuli is the way statements just plop out of nowhere but would make sense in another context. It helps me to create a little fake context to actually comprehend statements. Like #5 is hard to understand at first glance as a comparative but would make sense, naturally, in a news articles about an energy company asking customers to cut back on heating usage during a major winter storm, like.. "After ERCOT's urging of customers to turn down thermostats to avoid power grid overload....."
things being compared: normal weather days vs very cold days
quality: maintain a lower indoor temperature
winner: normal days
i took it to mean that 59% of households maintained a lower indoor temp on normal weather days versus very cold days. i feel like i was so close, but i think the missing link was accustomed.
@Hnelson88 this is what I did and from the comments, yeah it’s wrong because it’s not so much focus on the percentage of households but mores the weather days
@rosenb1um Big thing is don't let the "small" and "large" comparison be the factor. The question could be "Over consistent research the chance of heart failure in Tall people is more consistent that of shorter people. Tall people are the "winner" though the answer isn't a winning side its more just the fact of the group of people with the highest chance of heart a heart failure would be Tall people.
“Accustomed to maintain” is habit-language. Habits are usually compared within the same situation unless the sentence tells you the situation changed. Pair that with “on very cold days,” and it strongly suggests: when it’s very cold, they used to keep it at X, now they keep it at Y, and Y is lower.
Grammatically, “on very cold days” lives inside the comparison clause (“accustomed to maintain”), not inside the main clause (“maintained a lower temperature”). So, strictly speaking, the sentence explicitly tells you the baseline is “what they were accustomed to on very cold days” (vs what they were not accustomed to on very cold days).
@AlyssaInvernizzi what helped me understand why I answered this incorrectly is to imagine the comparative in this question like it's from a news report about household energy usage during a cold snap. The lines immediately preceding the sentence would establish that the newscaster is comparing the indoor temps that people were accustomed to, versus indoor temps now.
That at least helped me see where I went wrong interpreting the question.
@dancingqueen138 yeah I thought the same because it would be obvious that cold days would mean the home would be colder than what were used to so the comparison would have to be cold to extremely cold.
I don't understand how we could be comparing "accustomed to" and "now" when the verb maintained is in a simple past form. Without more context, we can be comparing recent events but nothing indicates current events.
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Definitely got #5 partially wrong… what the heck lol
We got Cruella de Vil over here
It helped me to understand #5 by adding the [bracketed] words below:
At least 59 percent of households maintained a lower indoor temperature [this year] than they had been accustomed to maintain on very cold days [last year].
"things" being compared: indoor temperature [this year] vs. indoor temperature [last year]
"quality" being compared: which temp was lower?
"winner": indoor temp [this year]
YO I GOT ALL BUT 5 CORRECT BUT ME AND 5 WERE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER LIKE "I KNOW YOU KNOW ME BUT GONE HEAD FIGURE IT OUT", I still got her wrong but 4/5 is better than my last attempt only getting 2 right hello
I feel like 7sage explains stuff in such a confusing way sometimes.
#5 is saying
Current indoor temperature
vs
the temperature they usually used to keep it at
...on cold days
5/5 but for 5 I thought of it as household with not accustomed vs household with accustomed
he over simplified question 4 fs
Hello :) I really wish our answers in the text box were saved; it would be great to go back and reflect on how our answers and logical thinking/ breakdown have changed/developed! Just a suggestion :)
for number 5, almost see that it's a statistic reporting events or findings and looking through it on those lens helps to better identify the accustomed to/past vs. now
What can be so disorienting about LSAT stimuli is the way statements just plop out of nowhere but would make sense in another context. It helps me to create a little fake context to actually comprehend statements. Like #5 is hard to understand at first glance as a comparative but would make sense, naturally, in a news articles about an energy company asking customers to cut back on heating usage during a major winter storm, like.. "After ERCOT's urging of customers to turn down thermostats to avoid power grid overload....."
for #5, i did:
things being compared: normal weather days vs very cold days
quality: maintain a lower indoor temperature
winner: normal days
i took it to mean that 59% of households maintained a lower indoor temp on normal weather days versus very cold days. i feel like i was so close, but i think the missing link was accustomed.
@amytorres I made a similar mistake.
@amytorres I did the same thing. I did not respect the force of "they had been accustomed to maintain"
things being compared: 59% v. 41%
Is this wrong?
@Hnelson88 this is what I did and from the comments, yeah it’s wrong because it’s not so much focus on the percentage of households but mores the weather days
@HiGigi But the weather isn't being compared either, no?
basically 5/5. i got the gist of #5, but i said "accustomed vs. actual" instead, with "actual temperature" being the winner
another way i thought of this question was expectation vs. reality
3/5. Confused the winner on 4, and I didn't have a standing chance against 5 lol
@rosenb1um Big thing is don't let the "small" and "large" comparison be the factor. The question could be "Over consistent research the chance of heart failure in Tall people is more consistent that of shorter people. Tall people are the "winner" though the answer isn't a winning side its more just the fact of the group of people with the highest chance of heart a heart failure would be Tall people.
Gonna take 5 after number 5
“Accustomed to maintain” is habit-language. Habits are usually compared within the same situation unless the sentence tells you the situation changed. Pair that with “on very cold days,” and it strongly suggests: when it’s very cold, they used to keep it at X, now they keep it at Y, and Y is lower.
Grammatically, “on very cold days” lives inside the comparison clause (“accustomed to maintain”), not inside the main clause (“maintained a lower temperature”). So, strictly speaking, the sentence explicitly tells you the baseline is “what they were accustomed to on very cold days” (vs what they were not accustomed to on very cold days).
@dvmelody Good to know, thank you
I got all correct, except for the "winner" answer to #5.
I only struggled on question five. I don't understand how indoor temperature tied in if it was accustomed to vs now.
#5 killed my family members
Can someone please help me with #5? After reading and watching the video explanation, I am still confused.
@AlyssaInvernizzi what helped me understand why I answered this incorrectly is to imagine the comparative in this question like it's from a news report about household energy usage during a cold snap. The lines immediately preceding the sentence would establish that the newscaster is comparing the indoor temps that people were accustomed to, versus indoor temps now.
That at least helped me see where I went wrong interpreting the question.
for some reason for 5, i wanted to compare very cold days to just regular cold days....could that still work?
@dancingqueen138 yeah I thought the same because it would be obvious that cold days would mean the home would be colder than what were used to so the comparison would have to be cold to extremely cold.
#5 is lowkey diabolical if u got that ur done
@jamandaa lollll
this made my brain hurt
Number 5 confuses me
@sapalmeri Same
@SamanthaFinjap Same, I really wanted to compare very cold days to not very cold days
I don't understand how we could be comparing "accustomed to" and "now" when the verb maintained is in a simple past form. Without more context, we can be comparing recent events but nothing indicates current events.