In recent years, a growing belief that the way society decides what to treat as true is controlled through largely unrecognized discursive practices has led legal reformers to examine the complex interconnections between narrative and law. ██ ████ █████ ████████ █████ █████████ ███ █████ ██ █████████ ███████ █████ ███████ ███████ ██████ █████████ █████ ███████ ██████ ███ ██████ ████ ████████ ████ ███████ ██ ████ ███ ██████ ██████ ██ ██████ ███
Context ·How do we decide what is true or false?
Legal systems use competing narratives about events; judges and juries assign "truth"
The legal scholars support the inclusion of personal stories into legal discourse. It’s hard to make a more specific prediction.
a
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We have no reason to think the scholars believe personal stories adhere at all to the principles of objectivism. Objectivism involves a neutral description of events rather than subjective experiences.
b
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Supported. The scholars believe personal stories can help empower people who aren’t trained in the language of law.
c
Personal stories are ████ ██████ ██ ███████ ███████████ ██ ███ █████ █████████████ ████ ███ ████ ███████████ █████ ██ ██████████
Not supported, because the author suggests personal stories can disturb the tranquility of law. So we have no reason to think the scholars believe personal stories will be more likely to bring tranquility.
d
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We have no reason to think the scholars believe personal stories are more likely to lead to accurate reconstruction of facts. None of the points they make in P4 regarding personal narratives relates to getting a more accurate understanding of facts.
The author mentions that all observers bring a set of “expectations, values, and beliefs” that determine what they can see and hear. So we know that these things can influence what is observed. We have no evidence the scholars believe that these things are more likely to influence personal stories than they are to influence other kinds of discourse. We don’t get any mention of the scholars’ belief concerning what influences personal stories, nor do we get a comparison of that influence to all other kinds of discourse.
Difficulty
79% of people who answer get this correct
This is a difficult question.
It is slightly harder than the average question in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%143
153
75%162
Analysis
Implied
Other’s perspective
Critique or debate
Law
Problem-analysis
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
1%
155
b
79%
167
c
4%
158
d
7%
161
e
8%
162
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