5 bucks for wetland preservation is kinda sad

it's actually sad to think about how much great literature and art work didn't get preserved til this day

ok but this question stem is kind of fucked up lol

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The problem with the argument is that, the researcher attempts to make a comparative claim about children and office workers when he provided no information on the second group. Anything that points out a relevant difference between the two groups would be able to weaken the argument: something along the line of "The placement of office computer and keyboard are very ergonomic and do not cause any stress on workers" will also weaken.

good lord

How do I know inhibiting angiogenesis is the only thing that the drug does? Maybe the same drug prevents obesity in the rats through a different path?

imagine someone catching all the wild otters and sterilizing them and releasing them back to the river

poor mother : (

I feel like 11B is so attractive because a previous RC passage talks about how some Native Americans receive names that refer to their life events ..

If we suppose the hypothesis was true, we would expect to observe (A) in the wild. That is a typical strengthening factor, an empirical observation that conforms to predictions according to the hypothesis.

cats like to drink milk is always overlooked : (

I really want to make a video of "best of JY Ping" and it's just a compilation of all the funny shit he's said but i'm afraid of copyright infringement : (

(B) confuses "having access to more than one newspaper" (i.e. having access to at least 2 newspapers) as the sufficient condition for getting all sides of important stories, when it's a necessary condition

the cat and dog epidemic of 2019.. that example didn't age well..

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I think this argument actually has a pretty uncommon structure and I second the previous comments re: how you should use your intuitions more than formal logic in this instance.

Conclusion: there are exceptions to the general rule that peoples should practice what they preach

Premise: (it is implied that physicians don’t need to have healthy lifestyles in order to treat people) and it’s no more necessary for logicians to be logical in their discussions of logic

The main example offered here is logicians, and the physicians work as a frame of reference that people are more familiar with, which the argument compares/ analogize logicians with. A typical way to weaken an argument by analogy is just to point out that the two things being compared differ in this relevant way, which is what (A) does.

(B) is consistent with the argument since the argument doesn’t assume “physicians don’t need to be healthy at all”

(C) doesn’t do anything because 1. we don’t care about “physicians who are incompetent” but we care about “physicians who don’t have a healthy lifestyle” 2. Even if we change (C) to “physicians who don’t have healthy lifestyles can cause more harm than logicians who discuss logic illogically,” and assume that “causing more harm” means “it is more necessary practice what they preach,” it’s perfectly consistent with the argument.

(D) we are not concerned about the difficulty. We care about the necessity rather.

(E) straight up concedes that logicians don’t need to be logical; that doesn’t weaken the argument in any way.

Imho taking the two premises to mean two different modes of argumentation makes the question unnecessarily complicated. I interpreted the stimulus to just be an argument by analogy, a very fine one in my opinion, in that all the relevant elements can be mapped on to their analogous counterpart. The flaw is the missing link between computational skills and “our most important intellectual skills.” I think if you see the “most important” bit in the conclusion (D) would be so obvious. Had the conclusion said: “Therefore, it’s reasonable to infer that computation skills might similarly be devalued by electronic data-processing technology” it would be a pretty good argument (not perfect, since argument by analogy eventually falls apart at some point).

Random observation but I feel like "insure" should be replaced by "ensure" here. "Insure" makes more sense in the context of insurance, like my car is insured. Really weird choice of word here

got through the entire passage without knowing what "lay people" means, got 1 question wrong, not mad

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(B) is perfectly consistent with the author’s argument:

Author says: surveys show that many people do not claim $$$ to be their No. 1 concern in looking for jobs

(B) says: when all else is equal, people like to choose the job that pays better over the job that pays less

(B) only shows that $$$ is one of the considerations people have because it has ruled out all the other competing factors, and as to how high $$$ ranks among other factors (say location, work environment, etc ect), (B) is agnostic. Since the author is not trying to argue that $$$ doesn’t matter at all, (B) doesn’t do much.

(C) however, points out an illicit term shift in the author’s argument (from “financial rewards” to “salary”) by saying that, maybe a job that pays mediocre salary gives insanely good bonuses. That makes the surveys that the author cited much less supportive of their conclusion.

Question 11 is truly some mental gymnastics

What if the small design companies bribed the award institutions and they actually have really bad designs

I think the first part of the stimulus is just there to confuse you. The question becomes less convoluted if we just look at the part after “but”:

Some people (e.g. babies) utter words that they do not know the dictionary definitions of

(utter ←s→ know the dictionary definition)

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If some babies understand all the words they utter, (utter →understand)

Then “knowing the dictionary definition” is not required for understanding a word

(understand ←s→ know the dictionary definition)

Therefore (E) is the correct AC.