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Context ·How do we decide what is true or false?
Legal systems use competing narratives about events; judges and juries assign "truth"
Implications of solution ·Disruption of status quo, less advantage bestowed by legal training, emphasis on empathy
Passage Style
Critique or debate
Problem-analysis
10.
According to the passage, which ███ ██ ███ █████████ ██ ████ █████ ███ ████████████ ███████ █████████ ██ ███ ██████ ████████ ██ ███ ████████
Question Type
Stated
We’re told that the intellectual systems have been supported by objectivism for centuries.
a
They have long ███████ ███ ███████████ ██ █ ███████ █████████ ██ ███████
Supported, because we know the systems have been supported by objectivism, which holds that there is a single neutral description of each event.
92%
b
They have generally ████████ ████████ ██ ██████████ ██████ ██ █████
Not supported, because the author believes there’s “no such thing as the neutral, objective observer.” So even though the intellectual systems assume objectivism, this doesn’t mean that they in fact achieve objectivism.
Not supported, because we have no evidence that scholars haven’t analyzed the discourse of the intellectual systems mentioned. We know that legal scholars have traditionally rejected discourse based on personal stories, but we don’t know that they have rejected or otherwise failed to give attention to other things, such as the discourse of the intellectual systems mentioned.
0%
d
They accord a ██████████ ████████ ██ ███ ████████ ██ ███████ ███ ███████████
Not supported, because the intellectual systems are supported by objectivism. The author suggests that objectivism rejects the language of emotion and experience.
2%
e
The accuracy of █████ █████ ██████ ███ ████ █████████ ██ ██████████████
Not supported, because the author believes there’s “no such thing as the neutral, objective observer.” So the author would agree that one of the basic tenets of these systems — objectivism — has been confirmed to be accurate.
0%
Difficulty
92% of people who answer get this correct
This is a moderately difficult 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%139
146
75%153
Analysis
Stated
Stated
Stems asking us to identify an idea that appears explicitly in the passage (as opposed to ideas that are merely implied).
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).
