PT3.S4.Q9

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  thisissparta Alum Member

  October 2017 edited October 2017 1363 karma

  @d931n027h said:
  Can someone help me understand the following phrase within the stimulus?
  "This willingness is even more revealing than is good-natured acquiescence in having others poke fun at one".

  In other websites, I see many people making connections between hearing funny story about oneself and self-confidence (Hearing funny story about oneself -> Self-confidence). I don't understand how they make such connection.

  Thank you in advance!

  Both, good-natured acquiescence and the willingness to tell funny stories/jokes about oneself, are considered as signals of supreme self-confidence.

  The first sentence talks about how the "willingness to tell jokes about oneself" is the surest way of knowing that a person has self-confidence. The second sentence - the one you quoted above - compares it to good-natured acquiescence (the ability to tolerate others' jokes targeted at you), and renders it as a strong, but not quite as revealing of a person's self-confidence as the willingness to make oneself the subject of his/her own jokes.

  That's why one can reasonably infer that there are at least two factors which signal supreme self-confidence from the passage - one being the willingness to tell jokes about oneself; the second being good-natured acquiescence. The former, however, is more 'revealing' of one's self-confidence.

  Therefore, it's a two part argument:

  Hearing funny story about oneself (good-natured acquiescence) -> Self-confidence, is one part.
  Willingness to tell a joke -> SC, is the other part.

  The correct (AC A) is basically the contrapositive of the above.
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  hihihi9993 Member

  October 2017 347 karma

  You are awesome! @thisissparta !!!! Thank you so much! I get it now!
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  thisissparta Alum Member

  October 2017 1363 karma

  @d931n027h said:
  You are awesome! @thisissparta !!!! Thank you so much! I get it now!

  Glad I could help!!