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I’ve been working through The Loophole by Ellen Cassidy, and it’s been extremely helpful so far. I’m hoping to find similar resources, but specifically geared toward Reading Comprehension—would love any recommendations.
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NathanHuppert
Monday, Mar 23
@LadyMidnightGlamour Just ordered both! Thank you so much and will lyk what I think.
NathanHuppert
Saturday, Mar 21
@LSATTAKER I don't think it weakens the argument at all. The advertisement only claims that the VersaTool's wide variety of functions is such that, should you get it, you will experience fewer instances of having to use additional tools than if you had gotten any other multi-function tool. The argument says nothing about cost. The VersaTool could cost a million dollars, and it would do nothing to weaken the argument. In QC, the second multi-function tool is an additional tool that you would ostensibly need to use, whereas the Vera is said to reduce the need for additional tools more than any other single multi-function tool.
I do not like this one.
That "most people recognize that anecdotes tend to be about unrepresentative cases" does nothing to explain why people tend to have accurate beliefs about society. We're told that most people do not pay attention to statistical information, so what then is the source of most people's accurate beliefs? Are we to assume that, all things being equal, people's beliefs about society tend to be accurate, such that without the influence of misleading anecdotes, their beliefs are all G.
I chose C because it does more to explain the source of most people's accurate beliefs: Uninteresting, but accurate, statistical information can be repackaged as anecdotes, which we know most people have an attraction to.
C has problems, of course. The stimulus says that "anecdotes are generally misleading," which seemingly contradicts the idea that there exists an abundance of these stealth anecdotes containing accurate statistical information that are the source of people's accurate beliefs. Still, I find it to be a stronger answer choice than B.