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I'm looking to chat with people about questions and would be down to go through some for free with you. I'm PT-ing in low 160's and taking real thing in Jan.
Posting my WAJ cuz I like what I wrote lol:
Go me I figured this out on my own. A is correct because the stimulus is saying we have these crops that produce toxins that don't need to be sprayed w insecticide and they're genetically engineered. And if we introduce them more widely it will help wildlife populations recover because they aren't sprayed with insecticides. So my first thought was hmm there's an assumption here that the toxins won't hurt the wildlife populations further. But there's also an assumption that if the insecticides aren't sprayed, the wildlife populations will somehow recover, assuming that we don't need anything else but these crops to make that happen. A is sort of like that, but a little different, saying of course that we need to assume the genetically engineered crops will cause less harm than the old crops sprayed with insecticide to populations. If this wasn't true, and it caused equal or more harm to wildlife, then wildlife will certainly not recover. E is incorrect because we don't know in every single situation why genetically engineered crops may help wildlife recover; we just know they helped in this situation because there weren't insecticides sprayed. B is incorrect because the argument isn't assuming we only need to reduce insecticide slightly, it's saying the widespread reduction will help recover.
Honestly fuck question 12. E is wrong because we're not tracing it back to any time. Is it a legal term? Maybe, meh. A is right because by saying it's called dower in England, it suggests that it might be used elsewhere, could be called something else. I think this is a bit of a stretch. Anyone else? Ugh.
I love how much JY swears in this one. It stands out from the others. It made me lol. Anyone else got links to a particularly sweary explanation vid? Made my day. This one did indeed knock my ass down. #holyshit
Thank you for this explanation! #feedback I agree with an earlier comment that a new explanation video is needed that does not just pinpoint the word "discarded" in D as possibly the reason D is wrong.
#help For A, it's saying if deeper levels are affected, then upper levels are too. But the stimulus says the skeptics thought the deepest level measurements were wrong, and it doesn't say anything about the upper levels...so why do we care about the upper levels to disprove the skeptics? I'm missing something.
#feedback Please make shorter than an hour long explanation video for a single question.
My notes for this question: A tricked me because good ideas flourish, not just free speech. Premises are facts already, not just restating the conclusion. The premises are actual support. Also says dangerous ideas are discarded...that's not just restating free speech is good. You will KNOW if it's circular reasoning. C is right because the moral ideal part is in the beginning, and then the self interest part is the rest where it's stated what is gained by freedom of speech.
A 36 minute long explanation video for this is inefficient, please make shorter videos!
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