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StanHolt

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Lessons · You Try - Mayor Walker's Questionable Ethics

StanHolt

Monday, Sep 22

This doesn't make sense to me. Not even a little bit.

Why would we care what the people who already thought he was poor thought after the fact? Of course we didn't expect those people's views to change.

What should matter is what the people who thought positively thought and whether their opinions changed or not. The stimulus obviously doesn't expect us to believe someone had an ethics violation and public opinion would improve, do they? Of course not. So, why is the answer focused on the opinion of others whose opinion clearly would not change?

Can someone please help explain this please?

#feedback

#tutor

#instructor

#help

#pleasehelp

Seriously...help.

Lessons · You Try - Vacuum Tubes

StanHolt

Saturday, Sep 20

I came here to disagree with the video like so many of you have. However, did you read the text?

Here is the text explanation:

There’s one more sentence in the stimulus.

However, vacuum tubes’ maximum current capacity is presently not comparable to that of semiconductors.

The third sentence tells us that all vacuum tubes do not currently have maximum current capacity comparable to semiconductors. So, SEVTs fail the necessary condition, and therefore SEVTs must not be preferable.

That is the explanation we were looking for in the video that was initially missed by J.Y. It was explained in the text following the video. Obviously, the video needs to be updated, but at least it's there in the text explanation.

Hopefully this helps.

Lessons · You Try - Raspberry Nurseries - MSS Review

StanHolt

Friday, Sep 19

Most applies to both predicates. I did not catch that the first time I attempted this question.

Why did I make this mistake? Still searching for answers.

#Feedback

#Ideas

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All feedback or ideas welcome.

Lessons · You Try - Coffeehouses and Restaurants

StanHolt

Edited Friday, Sep 19

When he explains why AC "A" and "E" are wrong, he discusses that Coffeehouse and Public Place is redundant.

Does that mean we can read AC "A" and "E" as:

Any public place that has a spacious interior is a well-designed public place

Any public place that has a spacious interior is comfortable

Or, would this be an incorrect statement?

#Kevin

#Instructor

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#Feedback

Feedback is much appreciated!

Lessons · Causal Language

StanHolt

Friday, Sep 19

Thank you for adding this!

Lessons · Lesson 3 - Nutritional Labels

StanHolt

Edited Friday, Sep 19

I noticed something in this video that I had not noticed before. J.Y. is reading the AC's starting in the middle with the word "if" and it makes it a bit easier to understand more quickly. At least it did for me, and I would imagine it does for him as well, which is why he reads it that way. The quicker, the better.

I hope this helps someone. I will use this strategy moving forward.

Edit: I wrote this before getting to the end of the video...and of course he pointed it out! lol

PrepTests ·

PT131.S2.Q3

StanHolt

Thursday, Oct 16

The explanation shows that there is an explanation available from both JY and Kevin, but the Kevin version is just the same video as the JY version. Can we get this fixed please?

LSAT

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Monday, Sep 15

StanHolt

🙃 Confused

Fact v Belief v Knowledge in Core Curriculum (LR Section)

I am currently working through Core Curriculum (CC). In doing so I came across a broken link titled Fact v Belief v Knowledge. I do not recall seeing this covered in the Foundations. I cannot access this information via the link. In the video explanation of the problem regarding Job Loss called: Lesson 3 - Job Loss J.Y. refers to a "Ground Level Truth."

Here is the link to this lesson: Lesson 3 - Job Loss

What is a Ground Level Truth? How do we access the lesson to the broken link?

Finally, does anyone have any addition feedback they can provide on this question?

PT 143 S4 Q10 (this was the question used in this lesson).

It was a bit tricky for me.

Lessons · You Try - Storytelling

StanHolt

Edited Monday, Sep 15

This particular question has a LOT more comments than most I've seen. Many of us were fooled by the fact that AC "C" contained the word "all" which appeared to be too strong of language to be supported. I am surprised that not #tutor or #instructor has come by to offer some additional guidance. I understand the video is here to help explain, but sometimes additional information and feedback is helpful. Perhaps admin, moderators, tutors, or instructors can observe the number of comments on a given question. It's quite possible that questions with a higher number of comments probably is worthy of additional attention and #feedback

Edit:

The analytics show that the most often chosen wrong answer choice is AC "D". The video spends the least amount of time analyzing this AC. It seemed that there was a comparative component to this question. The study is comparative in nature. The study made comparisons across time. Also, the answer seemed less committal, more general (less specific), therefore easier to support than other claims. So, additional feedback on AC "D" would be much appreciated. Thank you!

Lessons · Lesson 2 - Swimming Pools and Soft Drinks

StanHolt

Monday, Sep 15

This video was the best explanation of any question I've seen. At least for me, it was the perfect explanation.

Thank you!

Lessons · Skill Builder - Drawing Valid Conclusions 4

StanHolt

Wednesday, Sep 10

Question 5 seems like a great opportunity to apply the split most idea, but it was not a proper application because of the wording of the two statements. So, if we were talking about potions in the witch's hut in both statements, then would it be appropriate to apply the "split mosts" strategy?

#feedback

#question

#tutor

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Lessons · Skill Builder - Drawing Valid Conclusions 3

StanHolt

Edited Wednesday, Sep 10

Question 2:

So, the rule is that, even though we can reverse the relationship in a "some" statement, that doesn't mean we can attach it to the all statement and chain it.

When can we chain the statements? Obviously, when there are two all statements.

All A are B. All B are C.

A-->B

B-->C

A-->C

Okay. I get that.

We cannot do this with all and some.

A-->B

B<--S--->C

This does not equal A<--S--> C

What about most? Can we chain an all with a most?

A--> B

B--M--> C

#Feedback #Help #Instructor #Tutor

EDIT: I wrote this after watching the video of Question 1 and 2. Then I paused the video. However, the explanation of question 4 answers this question. Nevermind.

Lessons · Negating “Most” Statements

StanHolt

Sunday, Sep 07

Most A are B.

Negated:

It's not the case that most A are B.

Half or less of A are B.

Is "Half or Less of A are B" an accurate translation of this concept?

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Lessons · Skill Builder - Conjunction, Disjunction, and De Morgan's

StanHolt

Edited Friday, Sep 05

Is this a true or false statement?

For the sufficient condition to be true, the necessary condition must be met.

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PrepTests ·

PT126.S1.Q8

StanHolt

Edited Friday, Sep 05

I chose B and it was obviously incorrect. I made a couple of assumptions. I was led astray by two things: The stimulus came from an Economist and the stimulus talked about the farming industry being unstable. Answer B talks about the relationship between the farming industry's instability and the general economy. But, the real relationship in the stimulus is between a particular crop and the farming industry. It does not promise that the crop will save the entire farming industry from instability, thereby improving the general economy. Those connections were assumptions I incorrectly made based on the two factors I mentioned earlier (economist and the phrase "...which is quite unstable."

Hopefully I read more carefully in the future and avoid making these assumptions and connections that clearly do not exist in the stimulus.

Edit: I've read it again, and my breakdown is inaccurate. Answer D, the correct choice, discusses the general economy as well. There is an assumption there. How do we know that the general economy will improve? What part of the stimulus tells us that? I thought the only clear connection was that the crop will "provide relief' to the farming industry. So, that requires us to make the assumption that providing the farming industry relief will improve the general economy?

2nd Edit: B says it would stabilize the economy. D says it would benefit the economy. Could the crop benefit the economy without stabilizing it? Yes, it could. Now, just need to understand the last part of B that's incorrect relating to the environmental cost. When I read environmental cost, I understood that to mean damage (not financial cost). It does not specifically delineate between the two, and most environmentalists refer to the cost to the environment in terms of damage, not financial costs. Should I have assumed that answer choice B was referring to financial cost? If so, why? If the stimulus discussed cost, I could easily assume the cost was associated financially. Why? Because the stimulus was written by an economist, not an environmentalist. However, the answer choices are not written by either, so that's confusing to me.

#Help #Feedback #Instructor

Lessons · Skill Builder - Chaining Conditionals 1

StanHolt

Tuesday, Sep 02

#feedback #help #advice

I must not be clear about how I'm supposed to use this strategy. It is taking an extremely long time to remember every single group, decide on an assignment, translate to Lawgic, do the contrapositive, and then translate back. When it's one sentence, its quick. But a sentence with 3 or 4 indicators, all with different rules? How much time will that take? Are we doing all of this to train our brains to think about these things or is the strategy to do this process during the LSAT? Write everything down and use it? If we are expected to use this strategy, how on earth does anyone get finished with 20 or more questions doing this?

Lessons · Skill Builder - Group 2 Translations 2

StanHolt

Monday, Sep 01

This Skill Builder video was so much better than the last one. You are now reading out the contrapositive in English, and that helps us relate it back to the test. After all, the test is all in English, as you have said many times previously.

Thank you! Hopefully all the videos moving forward will continue this trend of bring Lawgic back to English, so that we are clear how we should interpret and use this to our benefit.

Lessons · Skill Builder - Group 2 Translations 1

StanHolt

Edited Monday, Sep 01

This is a very poor explanation of #3. I have enjoyed this program until this point. But he has taken many liberties and made many assumptions leading a very incomplete explanation of the process used on #3. And that is also clearly voiced in the comments. This is disappointing. Edit the video here, draw the subset and super set, and provide further clarity for this question. Again, it is clear by reading the comments (over 350 and counting) that people are not only struggling with this question, but they find the explanation to be incomplete and insufficient for complete understanding.

Edit: Now that I have focused on the other questions more closely, I can say that most of the explanations of this video are not like previous videos. The explanations need to have more detail. Every single one should have a diagram and all of them should be translated back into English after the contrapositive. This is still early in the core curriculum. Many of us (again, check the comments) are searching for clarity. We have not ventured this far into the core curriculum because we are doing this as a hobby. We are driven and care a great deal about understanding all of the content. Hopefully you will consider editing this video. For those that did not see the group one list and "the only" was missing from the video: while I understand your frustration, and empathize, it was clearly an oversight. That kind of mistake is easily rectified by reading the text or reading the discussion.

However, 7Sage, what isn't easily rectified is brief and/or incomplete explanations of process and solutions. I have really enjoyed and appreciated this program thus far. However, please improve the video for this lesson. Thank you.