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SAT Reading: Citing Evidence to Represent the Central Claim of a Social Science Passage 18 Views
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Oh look! A video on psychological testing 101...courtesy of the SAT Reading section.
Transcript
- 00:03
All right Moving on down the road Psychological testing one
- 00:06
o one courtesy of the way to the following line
- 00:09
from the text Best represent the central claim of passage
- 00:11
to what's The central plains has it too Well let's
- 00:16
go back to pass it to t forty forty three
Full Transcript
- 00:20
for the third time you were in shock And i
- 00:22
don't think that every person is probably gonna be shut
- 00:24
down for a little thing with a garden and i
- 00:26
finally feel like i'm gonna bring everything okay So what's
- 00:31
the basic idea here Yeah people suck Where is that
- 00:34
where's That a choice And i can't find that once
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the answer is instead of stating the central claim in
- 00:40
the first paragraph this author sneaks it in at the
- 00:42
end by saying the experiments showed that more precise control
- 00:46
is needed in the field of social science Experimentation duh
- 00:50
Although it's a great introductory sentence the first line of
- 00:52
the passage fails to make any debatable claim This one
- 00:55
is already proven saying that the experiment caused suffering is
- 00:59
helpful but it doesn't take a real position because while
- 01:01
anyone would agree that it caused suffering being willing to
- 01:04
torture strangers for science that sure sounds like the limits
- 01:08
of social science They're right but we're still missing an
- 01:11
arguable claim So yeah we go with d people suck 00:01:15.059 --> [endTime] Oh wait no that's a different one
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