Reading through these comments and I agree with those that said it was a headache to read. One thing that really helps me save time and cut unnecessary information is that if one person refers/ speaks about something that the other doesn't even acknowledge, then I ignore it because it will probably be "merely consistent" with at least one of the speakers. Example: when Priscilla talked about "skillfully envisage" and Lustina did not, I immediately ruled out answers that had to do with "skillfully envisage."

@RejoiceAdewale Correlation is when 2 variables tend to move together. Causation is when one variable causes another. The houseplant and sleep example is a correlation. This doesn't mean that houseplants cause better sleep, but rather than on average, increases in houseplants tend move with increases in sleep quality.

Let me give you another example that makes more sense for me: increases in ice cream sales tend to move with increases in murder rates. Does this mean that ice cream sales cause murders? Absolutely not! Notice how I used the word cause in that sentence. The secret variable in temperature. As temperature increases, ice cream sales also increase and as temperature increases, people get more crazy and murder rates increase.

This shows that ice cream sales and murder rates are positively correlated, meaning that as one moves upwards, the other tends to move upwards as well not because one causes the other, but because they are "tied" to the same cause (temperature). Are there ice cream sales in the winter? yes. are there murders in the winter? also yes, but when the temperature increase, both of these variables tend to increase together.

Hope this helped!

@iammichaelscott pointing out that he is an exceptional case and that it wasn't only his merits that got him in (ivy league, decent gpa, and high lsat), but also his unique background of serving and military. Commenter was saying that someone who has a bit better stats than Brad wouldn't necessarily get in because Brad's unique background "justifies" a bit of a dip in his grades.

Got it with over a minute under

The stressful thing is that since you don't have much time per question, these types of mistakes can be so easy to make :(

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5/5 ! It's also nice to see everyone's progress from the first of this kind of exercise to now!

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4/5 lol. I got tripped up on the last question because I was more focused on the argument as an economics major and how bad it was rather than identifying the premise/ cause.

@Krender don't worry abt it. This is one of the first lessons lol. I only started yesterday and I'm sure you haven't been at this for long so don't get too in your head!