Ohhhhhhhhhh!

S’all I’m gonna say. -_-

No, wait, I lied: D is just so much better at explaining the “apparent” discrepancy; it addresses the economic activity occurring in both the mall and the surrounding community. B is attractive but only explains the economic activity occurring in the mall.

NOW that s’all I’m gonna say.

I FELL FOR IT

T.T

JY says it in the video: the writers are looking for you to point out the ORGANIZATION of what is happening in the third paragraph, not necessarily the content of the third paragraph, which is what answer choice C is mainly focused on.

This one tripped me up, too.

“What if he just ate lot of tuna?”roflmao

Love the basketball camp/NBA draft/superstar analogy

I initially noticed the missing “good” then talked myself into believing I was confusing necessary/sufficient 😑

Def went through the same process. Thanks so much for writing this out.

Test for answer choices for flaw questions:

1. Does the answer choice accurately describe the argument?

and

2. Is the answer choice describing the flaw within the argument?

ie

1. Descriptively accurate?

2. Describe the flaw?

The correct answer choice is the one that allows you to answer yes to both of these questions.

also "not every single assumption makes the argument flawed;" many trap answer choices will accurately describe the argument but will not address the flaw; they will pass the first part of the test but not the second.

Similar to Weaken questions, except that instead of providing the additional information that will weaken the argument, the correct answer choice will, like MOR quesitons, DESCRIBE HOW the argument's validity is undermined.

This question was SO EASY but I was too lazy to map out the conditional logic -_- T.T

I got this question correct during a blind review session but it took me a long time and my understanding was definitely still fuzzy. Reading your expression of the logic after watching the explanation video helped solidify it better and now I have several new effective tools with which to tackle tough questions with. Thank you!

This makes so much sense, ty!!

Ugh! It’s so simple that it really frustrates me that I got it wrong!

I would have to disagree with some other commenters and say that this lesson is placed exactly where it ought to be within the curriculum. It's smarter/easier/less stressful to generally ramp up to this level of understanding; and I think that the 7Sage course and all its videos/lessons do this exceedingly gracefully

Lol it reminds me of the videos about the different valid/invalid argument forms. 7Sagers were like "why does this matter?!" and "when are we even going to use this?!" Literally just freaking out because they weren't comfortable learning something without knowing how it was going to be used later.

Not knowing myself, I was still like "trust, people. All will be revealed in time."

I have so much more faith in this course now that I've seen the way it's structured than I did before I finally purchased it.

Poor JY, haha. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Oh well, all I can do is speak for myself and say that I think this course is organized beautifully

a little difficult at first, then I really got the hang of it

Thank goodness for comments like yours <3 bless you stranger

I got this question right on a timed run then messed up on it during blind review. Hoping to reestablish the correct thinking that happened in the first place and smash the thinking that got me to the incorrect answer choice the second time around

Glad this was a question with the highest difficulty level but that I was able to immediately realize why the right answer was correct

I went through literally the exact same thought process

Came here precisely to make a comment about how I didn’t note the ‘however’ and how not doing so definitely messed me up

Grahhh!1!1 they got me so good!!! Glad to hear this was a difficult one but also very glad to be able to understand it after this great explanation

Ooh, JY, you gettin’ mah brain all hot SiZZle no, seriously, my brain is frying tsssssss