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SAT Reading: Defining "Nebulous" in the Context of a Social Science Passage 7 Views
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Nebula? Nebulous? Is there a difference? Watch this SAT Reading video to analyze some nebulous passages.
Transcript
- 00:03
our next question in the psychology as an experimental toy series as you can
- 00:08
passage one for nebulous (line 37) most nearly means what [text on screen]
- 00:14
nebulous and nebulae that's what a nebula looks like gaze at it enjoy it it [nebula]
- 00:20
was taken by some very expensive piece of camera okay so here we go
- 00:24
social science experiments also suffer from nebulous interpretations of result [text on screen]
Full Transcript
- 00:30
all right well the answer here yeah it's unclear beep well the answer is clear
- 00:34
it's the answer itself it's unclear right well the author gives examples of
- 00:37
the term by pointing out that the result could be interpreted in two different
- 00:40
ways the results lack clear interpretations therefore they are
- 00:44
unclear like that see the lens how it fogs up random doesn't quite capture the
- 00:49
idea that the result had multiple logical possible interpretations random
- 00:53
would be saying that the result proved the existence of unicorns you know that
- 00:58
could have been one thing and they do exist right now [unicorns in a field]
- 01:02
all right complex there doesn't fit because well both possible explanations [writing on chalkboard]
- 01:06
are fairly straightforward it's just that we don't know which one is correct
- 01:09
since one of them is likely right well we also wouldn't say that they're
- 01:13
inaccurate so yeah it's unclear all right we're getting our Kleenex here to
- 01:17
do what clean off the lens yeah much better all right now we're in focus and [more unicorns in a field]
- 01:20
we can see the evil unicorn
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