Thanks so much for those with great practical advice! To clarify, I'm actually pretty awesome at RC. I have a background in humanities and have been reading science articles for years so on those things I can definitely, definitely tell that going in with outside knowledge is helpful, no matter what some people say :). I was just looking for some advice on what to read to familiarize myself with the style and vocab of law articles.
SCOTUS is great and so are law blogs. Don't know why I hadn't thought of these before. Thanks again!
If anyone has other ideas, keep 'em coming!
Annoyingly (worryingly???) I have the most trouble on the law passages in RC. I'm not great with the law vocab and pretty terrible with the history of law. Especially those ones with things like the history the medieval British legal system. I'm like...what? I heard a great recommendation for law podcasts, but I really need something I can read and carry with me. Digital is fine too! Thanks in advance!
Hi all! For science articles, I cannot recommend Best American Science and Nature Writing enough. It's a book published annually compiling (of all things) the best American science and nature articles. I recommended it definitely for LSAT and also...just for life. It presents a huge variety of science articles, some more science-y than others, some published in Science and some published in Playboy (really). But they're all interesting, they're all well written, and they're great if you don't have a ton of time to devote to a single science subject.
This wacky argument also made me spend waaaay more time on this question than I should have. But I have a possible idea of what Whittaker's argument might mean.
(ahem)
Maybe "before" is used in only the most concrete sense. Like you can drop out AFTER your first year, because your first year is a real thing. It's real; it's come into being. But then you can't (in this sense) be said to drop out BEFORE your second year, because your second year is NOT a real thing, because it never came into being. And to add to the confusion, your second year is not a real thing because you dropped out after your first.
Thoughts? Anyone?
To add to what has already been said, A is wrong because:
1.) Like JY said, this response doesn't limit itself to allergies in children
and
2.) Saying the "average number of children per family has decreased" does NOT mean the average family size has gone from "large" to "small". The exact numbers aren't discussed in the stimulus, but I think it's safe to say that a national decrease in family size from 17 kids to 16 kids would still be considered a "large" family.