ngl Papi getting introduced (to me at least) out of nowhere confused me

#help thought the same thing

I think this question is great! Stay with me... we need to get into the shoes of Dapolito. He believes this study shows that the city council's objective isn't to preserve quality/availability of local rentals right so of course HE would gladly assume if the city council people looked at the study they'd be like yep knew that. agree with it. let's do it anyway. which would have to mean they don't give a rat's a** about the local rentals

Edit: I think it's important to get into the headspace of the person behind the argument. That's how I was able to get to the right AC quickly and move onto next questions. I think the biggest prob for many people when it comes to this Q is that by city council knowing about and agreeing with the study it feels like a HUGE jump to then say they don't care about quality (and etc.) ... BUT NOT IF YOU CONSIDER DAPOLITO'S POV. He thinks the city council is SCUM!

I went through these answer choices warily... I knew I was right in looking for the contrapositive but I got suspicious that almost all the answer choices ended without a "not" in the clause

me a hispanic- learning things about myself rn as J.Y. has said I would... O_o

POE for the win

It makes sense that author has a tacit endorsement for the passage he went through all the trouble of looking into and writing up LOL

Would it be fair to say that in a shitty as argument like this one we need a necessary assumption that is hella strong to get from the premise to conclusion? (therefore answer choice A is the best answer choice available?)

I didn't trust AC C because it seemed to push both premises together for its necessary assumption. I just hadn't seen anything like it before...

"must sometimes" how do we know it's not a much relationship with sometimes acting as a "more than 1" qualification on "howl[ing]"

@ulysses wait this is actually hilarious! I read the ac choice like :/

I got this wrong because i saw "sinking large, obsolete pieces of equipment in coral areas..." in the question stem and automatically assumed it was talking about the first sentence. Make sure to read the question stem in its ENTIRETY guys

I had understood Einstein's cosmological constant and something that was already in play by the "Some Cosmologists" in P3.. but I now realize that is wrong.

In P2 it's noted that dark energy is a part of the vacuum of space and it exerts pressure. The idea that something exerts on a constant pressure in space is an idea that Einstein brought up around 1917. TAKE AWAY THAT IDEA and everything else still holds- people (scientists) believe that there's some sort of pressure happening in space. then we move to the 3rd paragraph, the 3rd paragraph talks about cosmologists running experiments on how dark energy may be exerting pressure but they're not necessarily believer's in the cosmological constant or at the very least we know that the CC isn't relevant here.

AC A comes in and supports the idea that Einstein's CC is actually needed for various phenomena in space- it supports the idea that it's a real necessary factor in understanding space. If we glance back at paragraph 2 the author mentions how something like the CC is necessary when understand dark energy and would be helpful in explaining the acceleration. Close enough!

@MichaelWright I just watched it! Didn't realize you also had a video up- the reason I was able to BR ac D is because I focused on the first sentence and realized the author was supporting a different view (from the critics) of how advertising agencies work on people. Is the big issue with E that it just isn't something relevant to the stimulus? tyia michael :D

can someone explain answer choice E better or differently? I can understand why AC D is right and picked it during blind review but E sounds like it's saying the same thing

how to differentiate when a "some" in a claim is an actual some statement and just describing something (in this case FT vets) as at least one??

vibed it out and got a 7/7 but a 5/7 on passage 1... the lord giveth and the lord take it awayeth

@JonathanH.Zhangxu I wonder if we missed the same one!

Would rules/principles be considered intermediate conclusions? Also, in this specific stim would the principle be an intermediate conclusion with the second half of the second sentence bring it suppport?

I guess my main question is- is there an intermediate conclusion at all in this stim?

For whatever reason, I read this stim and completely blanked. I ended up getting the answer choice right but not for any particular reason I could explain (at least during my timed take). I think for complicatedly worded stim's we should aim to figure out the conclusion and the vibes of what the stim author is going for- she's essentially pitting the blame on gov so gov = evil. Having that set up vibe in your head you can go through the answer choices and consider whether the government in question is being bad (consistent with argument) or if they're actually not to blame for the lack of rice available in world markets (so gov = not so evil after all)

@calliekoskovich and I really do think it's on purpose. These newer LSAT have forced to be more flexible in how I think of answer choices. For AC B "Not Several Stars" can be written in many ways and "This film features only one star" is just one of them! In the rush of a timed section or PT tho it's hard to grasp that sometimes...

LOVE J.Y.! To further expand on the explanation of AC E..

When I read this argument I automatically thought but just because we reclassified some laws doesn't automatically mean that the "innocuous everyday occurrences" are actual crimes...I had this thought right before the conclusion. I think being skeptical allowed me to zero in on the flaw. So.. if these IEO's are actually (reclassified as) crimes now (I just need to accept that they're crimes now considering it's a premise), and since the conclusion is that vagrancy laws are increasing crime (in general) then it must be that these IEO's are happening more often. PERIOD.

I read AC E and I knew the argument was definitely doing that but had a hard time (under timed conditions) comparing it to my original pre-phrase. Nothing was even remotely close so I picked E and moved on.

TLDR; The flaw in the argument is that just because something (that now falls under the umbrella of crime) is reclassified as a crime doesn't mean that there will be in increase (in general) of said crime. There's an equally valid chance that people stopped committing the IOE's once it was reclassified as a crime. We don't have much support for SUCH a strong conclusion.

I really struggled with this question. I ended the section with a -4 and this question is the first one I reviewed (since I had flagged it after I read through it a couple times). I had originally chosen C but then came back when I finished the section to read over this question again... I picked A and then ultimately settled for C and continued checking over flagged questions.

Things to consider next time:

• The inherent weakness of an answer choice with "Many" in it. Of course, there are some correct answer choices with Many in it but if the goal is to "most weaken" that's a point against AC A.

• AC A doesn't really tell us anything that would impact a larger, well-supplied library. MAYBE (if we are open to a couple assumptions) if at least one resident doesn't use the branch libraries because of the irregular hours MAYBE that one resident would go to a larger library... but we really can't assume much from AC A.

• The focus of AC A is a negative about the branch libraries. The stim is trying to get us to move from smaller branches to ONE LARGER, well-supplied library. If anything, the focus on a bad aspect of a smaller branch library is consistent/strengthening to the argument.

Correct AC C on the other hand:

• The conclusion is about meeting the needs of the Winchester residents. Supposedly, the larger library will do just that. There's an underlying assumption- that this idea of a "broader, more current selection" is the only relevant factor OR at least the one factor with the most relevance to the argument BUT THAT CAN'T BE TRUE. We are essentially equating the residents' needs (big overarching idea in conclusion) with that of a broader and more current selection AS IF that's the only thing to consider when we think of meeting their needs. Honestly any point made against a large library will instantly wreck the argument since the author of the argument went too extreme with their conclusion.

I think it also depends on the school. If there's one in particular you have in mind their admissions team is usually very receptive to personalized questions if you join a webinar or something

Damn- switched from the right answer to the wrong one during the exam. I couldn't explain why I wanted to pick C so I ended up picking E) bc it describes how the test case strategy works (subjectively picking people that best work for the case)...