I was between B and E and picked E, I still hate both answers.
B, is making us assume that there were violent tv shows when tv became popular
E, I didn't think that equating watching TV with leisure time was a bad idea at all because if you watch tv it is your leisure time (that's how I interpret it). However, the problem I see with this AC is more with the second part "increases one's inclination to act violently". This part is asking us to assume that just bc folks started acting violently that this equates with killing others bc ultimately conclusion is about homicide rates. and not violence in general.
Overall, B is the only answer that I think helps the correlation in the stimulus establish itself more as a causation.
B is a trap, I got rid of B because it is not telling us the AMOUNT of drink that they have in the evenings. Without this, we have no basis to compare this AC to what is happening in the morning. And even then, we would want to know if these people require surefootedness in the evening, they might or they might not we simply don't know.
Before going into the ACs, I thought to myself: what if there's something about this drink that makes them drink it in small amounts besides the caffeine content. I thought wait... what if the drink makes their breath smell really really bad and that's why they drink it in small amounts, they don't want to have bad breath the whole day. This helped me pick C, maybe they don't want to be high all day that's why they drink it in small amounts, aka they just microdose a lil in the mornings LOL
Who else was personally victimized by the second part of the conclusion that they clearly ignored?!! (raises hand, it me)
This helped me with a rc speed a lot at no detriment to comprehension that might help others! I trace the entire passage with my finger tracing my computer screen, my speed has increased and it helps me keep my speed at a consistent pace. Try it out!
"addressing a problem" doesn't necessarily mean "solving a problem 100%." For example, I could say my problem is that "I am failing math" one way of "addressing the problem" is by actually studying for exams. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that studying for the exams is going to guarantee that I don't fail math/pass math. I am just doing something that is an attempt to address my problem of failing math.
I had B in the beginning but the “least restrictive” part tripped me up, B still seems restrictive imo. But I now see that E is just way too free and doesn’t place enough restriction so the money could technically be used for any cause.
This question is foul as hell, how did they expect us to assume that just because TVs became a thing, that violent shows/violence on TV were a thing.
UGH I didn't like B because I felt like it was making us assume that "the record of prenatal care" was often/ routinely NOT available. Like we don't know that typically they can just ask the mothers if they took prenatal care or not.
Conclusion: The republic's recruitment rates for 18 YEAR-OLDS depend substantially on recruitment rates for high school dropouts.
Why?
Because a rise in the percentage of 18-year-olds who were recruited to the armed forces CORROLATES with a rise in the percentage of people who dropped out of high school.
C is correct here because it gives us an alternative explanation. The recruitment rates among 18 years olds went up rather BECAUSE the percentage of 18-year-old high school graduates who were recruited for the army ROSE.
They are trying to get us to assume that the dropouts would join the army, but they could have just as easily joined the labor market.
UGH I was between A and D. I fell into the trap. In retrospect, I think D is pretty obvious we have to make so many assumptions to pick it. For example, it could be that the hyena population doubled but that could be from (1) to (2) hyenas. We simply don't know and to further that we don't necessarily know that the doubling in population is bad for the wildlife pop. This AC doesn't weaken.
A, weakens because it provides an alternative cause to the reason why the baboons are maturing faster. Giving the alternative cause weakens the strength between the reason given (the dumpster making the baboons mature faster) and the conclusion draw.
Wow this happened to me too, I was scoring between 167-174 and I got a 159. A punch to my gut for sure. I haven't studied in a month because I honestly felt so sad. Logician's words are definitely encouraging.
I was debating between C and A a lot.
I initially went with A. I thought about C that just because melatonin affected those without insomnia SIGNIFICANTLY, this didn't rule out the possibility that it could have helped those without insomnia even just a little.
I see now that A is a worse answer of the two, because the fact that one correlation is weaker than another is RELATIVE and doesn't tell us anything about what the correlation is or how much weaker it is. It could be just slightly weaker. We simply don't know.
Lesson: beware of relative answers!
I will remember this question because it made me think of Schitt's Creek.
Just because the Roses' income is now the average for families, this does not mean that their income must have increased.
They were millionaires last year, but they just lost all their money this year so now their income is average.
Ugh my intuition was telling me there was something about C, but I couldn't translate it to "busting ass" during my timed take.
C works as an alternate cause, because it's telling us "hold up, the chess playing skills is not what caused their grades to go up. Instead it was the fact that they loved chess so much that they want to join the team and you need a high grade for it, so the students' desire to want to join the team caused them to have higher grades."
The big gap that I thought of was, "well we know that it was hard to travel through the mountains, but how do we know that it wasn't significantly harder to travel by boat?" The argument doesn't tell us.
If it was even harder to travel by boat or even just as hard as it was to travel by land, then we can't really make our conclusion based on the premise given.
I figured out the flaw but then my brain couldn't find the best matching answer. I went C but I can see why B is a way better match.
Basically just because one of us/disease couldn't accomplish a goal on our own, doesn't mean we can't accomplish it together.
I feel like I got this right so quickly because E is exactly what happened to me when I took Gen Chem
Damm JY knew exactly what I was thinking through 19, but I still picked D even though I felt it wasn't right smh
My gut was telling me to pick E but all I could think of was Indian people living in Singapore don't necessarily eat "Indian curries". But like everyone said, it's the only AC that touches upon the turmeric aspect.
I think this was mostly in reference to Main Point/Main Conclusion questions. I think you have to keep in mind that the rules we like to keep in our head don't always follow, it is even the case that sometimes in MP/MC questions they put the main conclusion as the last sentence.
I felt so comfortable reading this and then bam got so many wrong, this is an example of them bumping up the level of difficulty with tricky questions.
I used to be bad at weakening but I took around 2 days to do all the weakening questions I had left over from PTs 1-35.
I started untimed.
My focus always is:
Identify the conclusion
Identify how the information is supporting it.
If I can predict the flaw in the argument. This sets me up for the going into the answers but I can't always predict.
Start eliminating ACs that clearly don't weaken the support structure.
Select the remaining AC and see how it would weaken.
For weakening Q's, for some reason I always keep in mind ALTERNATIVE CAUSE.
Also, POE is very helpful because I know that I am getting the right answer by eliminating the bad ones first, it has decreased my errors as well.
I was between B and E like most of us.
B I eliminated because the stimulus says antihistamines have "other effects". These may or may not help battle congestion, we simply don't know all their ingredients. For example, let's say that we took an antihistamine that somehow had vitamin C, and let's pretend vitamin C helps us somehow relieve our congestion. That's why I couldn't pick B, we can't say that antihistamines are ineffective against congestion caused by colds, bc they might help a little through their "other effects".
E, similarly I focused on the "other effects" of antihistamines and the fact that histamine plays no role in producing cold symptoms. Thus, if the antihistamine we take somehow helps us with our cold symptoms then it cannot be attributed to the blocking of histamine but to those "other effects."