Thank you so much!

Got this question right pretty quickly using shallow dip just by looking at the quantifiers; I didn't even have to read the actual words of the answer choices and think too deeply about it. Helpful to save time like this when you can on para questions.

Stim: "Most" premise, "some conclusion" - now we go through the answer choices and see if any match

Answer Choices:

(A) - "most" premise, "some" conclusion = CORRECT

(B) - "all" premise, "most" conclusion = WRONG

(C) - "some" premise, "all" conclusoin = WRONG

(D) - "some" premise, "some" conclusion = WRONG

(E) - "most" premise, "most" premise = WRONG

For clarity of what counts as a "most" claim; if we translate these words into "most," its easier to match the quantifiers in our shallow dip:

• "Only a minority of X are Y" means the same thing as "Most of X are not Y"

• "Usually" also means the same thing as "most"

I answered this in half the expected time because I was able to use shallow dip to eliminate all the other answers very quickly - basically, anything that didn't start by describing one thing and conclude that a completely different thing was similar to the first thing was eliminated, which left me with (C) immediately.

A: animals and human beings biologically - too similar, eliminate

B: plastic arts and poetry = too similar, eliminate

C: organisms and communities = BANG

D: vitamins and vitamin deficiencies = too similar, eliminate

E: friendship and cooperation = too similar, eliminate

Shout out to the odyssey for the context u need for this last paragraph

@Jacq Coraline's dad I'm crying

Evaluating Metrics (4 Ways): Positives vs. Negatives:

1. True Positive = the test says "yes" and the reality is "yes"(ex. the diagnosis says heart attack, and the patient is having a heart attack)

2. False Positive = the test says "yes" but the reality is "no" (ex. the diagnosis says heart attack, but the patient is actually fine)

3. True Negative = the test says "no" and the reality is "no" (ex .the diagnosis says no heart attack, and the patient is fine)

4. False Negative = the test says "no" but the reality is "yes" (ex. the diagnosis says no heart attack, but the patient is actually having a heart attack)

Theodora sweetie NEVER take the lsat pls

Thought this might be helpful! I know I'm definitely a written/visual learner:

10 FLAWS TO KNOW:

1. Misdirected Response = when the author or a second speaker responds to an argument the other person never actually made; the response aims for the wrong target

   LSAT Answer Ex: "Is directed toward disproving a claim that was not made"

2. False Dichotomy = when you think you're limited to two options even though there might be other ones available

   LSAT Answer Ex: "Assumes without warrant that a situation allows only two possibilities"

3. Confusing a Mental State with Reality = when you mix up a fact about the world with someone's belief or intention (what's happening in their mind); or the other way around

   LSAT Answer Ex: "Assumes that because an action was followed by a change, the action was undertaken for the purpose of bringing about that change"

4. Confusing a Lack of Support with a False Conclusion = when you think knocking down someone's argument proves that their conclusion is wrong; this is a flaw because the conclusion can still stand, even if you take away it's support

   LSAT Answer Ex: "Rejects a position on the grounds that an inadequate argument has been made for it"

5. Attacking the Source = when you attack the person that holds a view rather than the view itself; whether someone is biased or hypocritical doesn't affect whether their view is true

   LSAT Answer Ex: "Attacks the proponent of a claim rather than the merits of the claim"

6. Overlooking Factors = happens when you base a judgement on only some of the factors that matter; weighing a cost or benefit but ignoring the other side, or fixating on one effect while ignoring the ones that push the other way

   LSAT Answer Ex: "Fails to consider that the benefits to be gained might outweigh the costs"

7. Part vs. Whole = when you assume that something true about individual components of a thing must also be true about the whole thing (or the other way around)

   LSAT Answer Ex: "Assumes that because something is true of each of the parts of a whole, it is true of the whole itself"

8. Unrepresentative Sample = when you generalize about a group based on a slice of it that's skewed in a relevant way

   LSAT Answer Ex: "The argument draws a conclusion about a population from observations of a subgroup that is quite likely to be unrepresentative of that population in certain relevant respects"

9. Assuming Cause From Correlation = happens when you think that the fact two things tend to show up together proves that one thing must have caused the other; there could be other explanations for why the two things show up together (ex. third factor that causes both, or causal direction is reversed)

   LSAT Answer Ex: "Illicitly infers a cause from a correlation"

10. Confusing Sufficient and Necessary Conditions = happens when you think something that guarantees another thing is absolutely required for that thing (or the other way around)

    LSAT Answer Ex: "Takes a sufficient condition as a necessary one"

@capturingthemomentmedia734 Never been happier

Helpful note about sufficient assumptions that I made for myself:

• A sufficient assumption guarantees the conclusion, but it's not necessary because it's not guaranteed by the conclusion

5/5, but absolutely horrible timing (2-4 minutes OVER every question); will this get better with more practice, or should I be working on improving my timing early on? Feel like I should focus more on getting the correct answers before focusing on timing, but this poor timing aspect definitely worries me