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Problem ·Trending away from communities of people in the same geographic area
Modern people spend less time interacting in ways that are required for thriving communities. (We don't interact with our neighbors as much.)
Author's support 2 ·Conference participants are self-selecting; actual communities are not
Actual communities are more likely to have real diversity of age, career, and personal interests.
Passage Style
Critique or debate
Problem-analysis
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What is the primary function ██ ███ ██████ █████████ ██ ███ ████████
Question Type
Purpose of paragraph
Structure
Rely on your low-res summaries to help you on this question. The primary purpose of P2 is to present the reasons some people think computer conferences are communities.
P2 doesn’t concern why computer conferences originated. The purpose is to present reasons some people think computer conferences are communities.
1%
b
to give evidence ███████████ ███ ████████ ██ ███ █████████ █████████ ██ ███ █████ █████████
P2 provides evidence that some use to support the argument of the advocates in P1. P2 is the advocates’ own evidence.
1%
c
to develop the █████ ██ ███ █████████ █████████ ██ ███ █████ █████████
This is the best answer. P2 develops the claim of the advocates in P1 by providing the evidence they cite.
93%
d
to introduce an █████████ ████ ████ ██ ████████ ██ ███ █████ █████████
P2 doesn’t introduce any objections that are answered later; P2 presents the advocates' evidence for their argument in P1.
3%
e
to anticipate the ████████████████ ██ ████████ ███████████ █████ ██ ███ █████ █████████
P2 doesn’t anticipate the description of conferences in P3. P3 is an entirely separate point of view that rejects the argument of the advocates in P1 and P2.
2%
Difficulty
93% of people who answer get this correct
This is a low-difficulty question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%120
131
75%141
Analysis
Purpose of paragraph
Purpose of paragraph
Stems that ask us to describe the purpose of a paragraph within the passage's broader structure, often in abstract language (e.g. "to offer evidence in support of the contention that...").
An umbrella tag marking questions that test our understanding of the passage's overall structure (e.g. Main point, Purpose of paragraph, Meaning in context, Describe organization).
Critique or debate passages contain multiple points of view on a particular subject. Sometimes the author takes sides and participates in the critique or debate, other times the author merely reports the debate.
Passages that present a particular problem and then discuss the implications of that problem. They also often explore one or more solutions to that problem (although they don’t have to).
