Most of what has been written about Thurgood Marshall, a former United States Supreme Court justice who served from 1967 to 1991, has just focused on his judicial record and on the ideological content of his earlier achievements as a lawyer pursuing civil rights issues in the courts. ███
Intro topic ·Thurgood Marshall, lawyer and Supreme Court judge
Revisit main point ·Marshall's public interest approach has been widely adopted
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Stated
The author tells us that some legal scholars criticized Marshall’s use of statistics, because they viewed it as a “pragmatic attempt to give judges nonlegal material with which to fill gaps in their justifications for decisions where the purely legal principles appear inconclusive.”
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the ideology Marshall ████ ██ ███████ ███ █████
This isn’t what the passage says legal scholars criticized. The author tells us that some legal scholars criticized Marshall’s use of statistics.
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This isn’t what the passage says legal scholars criticized. The author tells us that some legal scholars criticized Marshall’s use of statistics.
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the use of ██████████ ██████████ ██ ███████████ ████████████ ███████
This isn’t what the passage says legal scholars criticized. The author tells us that some legal scholars criticized Marshall’s use of statistics.
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the use of █████████████ ██████████ ██ █████ █████
Supported by P3. The author tells us that some legal scholars criticized Marshall’s use of statistics.
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the set of ████████ ███ █████████ ██████ ████████ █████████
This isn’t what the passage says legal scholars criticized. The author tells us that some legal scholars criticized Marshall’s use of statistics.
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Difficulty
96% of people who answer get this correct
This is a low-difficulty question.
It is somewhat easier than other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%126
135
75%143
Analysis
Stated
Stated
Stems asking us to identify an idea that appears explicitly in the passage (as opposed to ideas that are merely implied).
Passages that highlight a person, issue, or historical event or development. These passages often focus on why that thing is significant, distinctive, or interesting.
