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thurston.stephen
Saturday, Dec 21 2024

Are there correct answers where the answer is presented as it's contra-positive?

In other words answer choice C could be written as: It is not the case that journalism is good if it does not provide accurate information or is not of interest to the public.

E felt tempting in that respect, but I am following everything you're saying

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thurston.stephen
Wednesday, Dec 18 2024

I had it right but switched to D on blind review because I thought, "oh this is the analogy lesson so I should probably attack the analogy." :(

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thurston.stephen
Wednesday, Dec 18 2024

What's tough about this is I blew the target time by 60 seconds. The second I read E I knew it was instantly correct, but eliminating the wrong answers took too long

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thurston.stephen
Tuesday, Dec 17 2024

Am I tripping or did he flip the value symbol when explaining answer choice D?

Saying group S is no more likely should mean "equal to or LESS likely" than group ~S.

I understand his point, and it doesn't change the way that D is an irrelevant wrong answer choice but I just want to confirm that is the case, and also make sure that I'm not taking crazy pills :D

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thurston.stephen
Monday, Dec 16 2024

There are literally greater than and less than symbols, yet I find myself using the little arrows just like you :P

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thurston.stephen
Monday, Dec 16 2024

E was Sooooo tempting. That comparative grammar lesson saved me!

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Monday, Dec 16 2024

3 the comparison is so obvious, yet somehow hard to actually put in words

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thurston.stephen
Saturday, Dec 14 2024

Pronouns :P

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thurston.stephen
Saturday, Dec 14 2024

I initially skipped this whole part of the course because I figured: Grammar, piece of cake. Now I'm coming back to it because wow is this important. A lot of issues I've had came from getting hung up on, or not recognizing subtle differences in the modifiers.

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thurston.stephen
Friday, Dec 13 2024

Did a dolphin hurt you?

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thurston.stephen
Friday, Dec 13 2024

Bro really said for the lols. Love it! Best course ever

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thurston.stephen
Wednesday, Dec 11 2024

Question 2:

Jeff must kill Brian or Rob:

Because the word "either" is not present, would that not allow the possibility that he kills BOTH of them? In other words, if I say, "I'm going to go to the gym or practice piano." I would not generally think that what I am saying excludes the possibility of me doing both. If that was my intention I would say, "I'm either going to go to the gym or practice piano."

I realize that the logic on this test is not always reflective of our learned understanding of language, but am I missing something here?

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thurston.stephen
Wednesday, Dec 11 2024

Love the breaking bad reference!

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thurston.stephen
Friday, Jan 10

I picked A under time because I recognized the shape, but what concerns me is I wasn't able to figure out why the original statements were flawed. The wealth vs income distinction seemed valid and I completely missed the most objective vs solely issue. I hope that's not bad. Not a good a feeling

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thurston.stephen
Friday, Jan 10

I completely overlooked the All vs Individual thing, but I picked A in 45 seconds and confirmed on blind review.

I just made a simpler rule:

Paleowhatever → Familiar ; X person is Familiar therefore Paleowhatever

A → B

B → A

Is this bad? Are there answers where you need to distinguish the individual? What was shown in the lesson seemed very excessive.

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PT117.S4.Q22
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thurston.stephen
Thursday, Jan 09

This is the first dichotamy question I've seen so it got me :(

I know it's included on the list of flaw types but it would be cool if they had one question like this in the lesson.

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