Arnot: "If we change a few things in government, we will eliminate our problems"

Subscriber: "Arnot is wrong because the government won't act in the interest of the public"

How is that not distorting the argument of Arnot? Arnot never says it is realistic that the government will make these changes, rather he states the changes are there to be made.

Okay we need to get some harder "You Try" questions in here.

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I feel like making the "you try"s harder would be beneficial to me. This one is just so straight forward it's like practicing scoring on an empty goal from 5 meters out to get ready to play striker in the world cup.

Commenting to save this lol

Oldest mistake in the book

B,C,D are obviously wrong but I would like to argue this question's "correct" answer of E is not any more supported than A:

To paraphrase...

Size provides a reliable indication of population.

Larger seals = smaller population

Smaller seals = Larger population

Archaeologists find that over 800 years of native peoples hunting seals for food, average body size did not vary significantly.

Nowhere in the premise does it support that the seal size was small (population was large) during those 800 years. The native peoples in North America could just have easily hunted so much that the seal population was always small making seals always large.

I find A to be more strongly supported as it states:

seal hunting practices did not vary substantially between different groups of Native Peoples

And I took this to mean that different groups are hunting roughly the same number of seals keeping the population steady.

While the jump from "hunting practices differ" to "a different number of seals are hunted" is certainly not explicitly stated in the article. I would argue it is a more reasonable assumption than that Native Peoples did not significantly reduce the seal population. The assumption for which, answer E relies upon.

Am I salty I got this question wrong? Yes. But I would love to hear peoples' thoughts.

@AidanW I should have known someone would have already said this

@WFitzgibbon1 I'm with you. I find myself missing more 2 star questions than 4 or 5 star difficulty