@weathersr1 you're right, the best way to think about this:

WEAKEN EXCEPT = STRENGTHEN or DO NOTHING FOR THE ARGUMENT

@Isabella! hey, so look at the conclusion they say that the marks are geological and not worms. I think you would get the answer wrong if you fixate on the worm instead of the geological process section.

To weaken that argument you need to find something that says it is not the geological process but something else.

@emmasabin I think its more of like a set of facts are true so they are testing what and how you come to a certain hypothesis. More like what can you reasonably conclude from the set of data you have.

@jrm98 TO ADD: Strengthen except means weaken or do nothing

@aurora67 I feel like if you were to read the correct answer choice you can easily tell that that's the right answer without having to dissect the other option. The 40-60 y/o experiment has a too different of a population to compare our first year students with.

I had a hard time understanding how B strengthened the argument until I saw the explanation.

#help can someone make a version of C that would make for a really good weakener for this argument? I did not completely understand the explanation on why C can have a potential to become a weakener.

@JaredKebbell I think one more thing to consider is we don't know the spread of the sample-maybe there was an equal mix of car accident back pain and sitting on chair back pain that got put into the two group equally i.e. the variations were equally spread.

I think you would need to make an assumption of an unequal spread in the groups before you can reach to E being the correct answer choice.

@kifill I don't think that would be correct. It doesn't matter how you guys got there but now that everyone is there kinda issue. It just gives your context on how you can arrive at the inception point of the experiment.

@AlenaKane I think what D essentially means is that the 12y experiment was just a better mechanized experiment, that is, since there is a placebo group we 100% know that the supplement didn't work. The purposeof a placebo is to show how many could have had a positive or negative effect without the supplement. "Did the medicine cause the improvement, or would people have improved anyway?"

So it really does not tell us about the discrepancy we see between the two studies, but just that one study was built in a better way to get to the result.

I think for me I kinda got confused between d and e because I wasn't too sure how a placebo affected an experiment, i.e. that it made the experiment stronger. I don't know why I assumed that half placebo and half supplement means zero net effect= "had no positive or negative effect"

need to come back to this just before the exam ...

@StanHolt Hii, I think you can translate it as:

"did not snore less/more frequently" =snored as much as before which means snoring did not increase or decrease with the abnormalities being fixed.

Hence, abnormalities are independent of snoring which also means that abnormalities are not causing snoring. Which, in turn, strengthens the hypothesis that snoring is causing abnormalities. Hope this helps!

@Kevin_Lin Hi Kevin, no I wasn't having the issue the next day when I logged out and logged back in. I think glitch had probably something to do with me subscribing back after a month.

This is probably one of the most useless questions ever. Why is there so many speculations? Literally any one of the options except for A could be the answer. You can make a case for all of them except for A.

A. Obviously Shakespeare would have a copy like duh-wrong

B. Yeah maybe whoever wrote the abridgement meant to write it specifically for the stage production for that one specific character (maybe that character was super popular?) in mind and did not care for the rest of Hamlet. They could have read the entire Hamlet, but just did not care to include everything which can be easily misinterpreted for them not reading it fully.

C. The actor probably just cared for their own role and wanted to make it look better and did not care for/read the rest of it. Maybe they had to make a career out of it, and people were just interested in their character.

D. Easy for a spectator to do an abridgement without reading the entire novel and favourably write only the character they liked.

E. Same thing as B

I mean, if you are speculating, none of these speculations is truly more reasonable than the other, except for A, which is really not reasonable.

These comment sections kill me LOL

@RainbowSherbet Thank you for the reply. I'm not using any VPN, all my setting are the same as before. But I subscribed back in after a month break-maybe that is throwing off my settings :(

#Feedback are people having technical issues trying to navigate the video? when I click on the video the it pops Fullscreen instead of showing me the options to navigate. does this have something to do with the upgrade?

@AlyssaV33 can you pls give the law hub link here! That would be so helpful

@ShahmeerRaza yes I do! What I've come to realize is that understanding the entire scope of why all wrong answer choices are wrong is arguably more important than just getting the question right, which the videos really help to develop.

B is really well explained in the video!

I picked it E and it was a classis part to whole flaw

Just because one part of the production (expense of dyeing is avoided) is cheaper does not mean the entire product (finished garment) is cheaper.

Just because the green and brown cotton do not need to be dyed does not mean that green and brown cotton are less expensive to manufacture than regular cotton- it can have all sorts of additional costs related to growing these g &b cotton like harvesting, spinning, weaving etc. which can add to the cost of the finished product.

@PowerUp_Tutoring I think that's when you look at B's wording with future tense "Once...will". The scope of the stem is only constricted to the present not what will happen. It never goes to mention what should happen in the future. That's why B also does not hold up through a primary lens.

I tried doing an experiment-

I skimmed the stem and then tried to guesstimate which one could be the answer choice. I was looking for something that had a looser wording and, lo an behold, it was A. Wording for all the other answer choices were too extreme: future tense, the only etc.

Got so lucky! yey

@VanceKatzfey I think you just need to skim the answer choices a bit to see if parsing the correct answer requires a logic chain or not.