Weighing factors

(Factors)

Reasoning that involves considering or overlooking multiple factors pulling in different directions — whether causal forces with counteracting effects or costs and benefits of a decision — and determining how they balance out overall.

Avg. 2.1 per section
14%
28%
28%
20%
11%

Avg. difficulty: 2.9

Key tactics

  • Stimuli with this tag tend to fall into one of two categories: net effect analysis and cost-benefit analysis.
  • Net effect has to do with how different causal factors push and pull the target effect in different directions.
  • Cost-benefit has to do with how the pros and cons weigh out against each other.

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