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06 Jun 2022, 05:03
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Thank you for this thorough response on this question. I have a clarifying question on what you mentioned (nonland wealth refers to other types of wealth such as the currency of the market economy...e.g., money). So does this part of the passage "nonland wealth was also associated with more adoption of both technologies" refer to the "villages with limited land that are tied to a market economy rather than on the relatively isolated, self-sufficient communities with ample land characteristic of rain forest regions" and NOT the Tawahka people? Or are the individuals who have "nonland wealth" different from both of these groups I just mentioned and in of itself is a third category?
If "nonland wealth" is referring again to the "villages with limited land...", why would the author mention that this group is associated with "associated with more adoption of both technologies" later on in the passage when the author already mentioned that this group is "more likely to adopt such technologies" at the beginning of the passage?
06 Jun 2022, 07:28
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Hello, woohoo921. The passage conviently breaks at the highlighted portion from commenting on former studies to reporting the findings of a recent study of the Tawahka people, so any information found in the earlier half is understood to pertain to those other studies, while anything after to the more recent study. Learning to identify such passage breaks, particularly when there is a single block of text, can really help you answer RC questions with confidence.
Thank you for following up, and good luck with your studies.
- Andrew
06 Jun 2022, 08:01
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Hello, woohoo921. I will respond in-line below.
Thank you for thinking to ask.
- Andrew
woohoo921
A question is considered retired when it is taken out of circulation from the current exam pool. GMAC™ probably sits on a large pool of such questions and doles out a few "never before seen" questions at a time to sell new editions of the OG or other products found online, such as question packs. There is no such thing as retiring an already retired question, so I would not read into the insertion or deletion from one OG to another of specific questions that derive from the same passage.
woohoo921
From the context of the passage and the sentence you quoted, we can reasonably infer that indirectly would describe a process in which the researchers relied on observational evidence, rather than on anything more scientifically rigorous (such as assigning numerical values to various metrics and running an analysis of the data). Yes, the line we need is the one you partially quoted:
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woohoo921
You just have to match information, since any according to the passage frame means that your answer can be found directly in the passage, no inference (i.e. less thinking) required. I know what you mean about a few items falling under a larger such as umbrella, but oh, well. The task remains the same: find the one answer that does not appear in the context outlined in the question stem. That answer took me 28 seconds to find and be sure of, since the passage mentions pesticide use in the following manner:
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Now, whether improved is meant to carry over to the second element is up for debate, but nowhere do we see a call for a decrease [in farmers'] use of chemical herbicides, as answer choice (C) says. Case closed. (Save your brain cells for a tougher challenge that may lie ahead when you keep answering these types of questions without much trouble.)
Thank you for thinking to ask.
- Andrew
The fact that there are other possible explanations for the sound doesn't change the fact that a rainstorm is a pretty good guess. 
