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Ans- D but took 2.51 mins to solve :(
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Oh Man!!! How do i develop the IQ to even understand such questions. I have a fair bit of understanding of the English language (to support that claim, I would like to quote that I scored a 6.0 in my AWA ). I am unable to understand the level of thinking that questions such as these demand. Let alone answer, I could not even entirely make out what the passage meant to say. Help me out somebody please. I have scored a miserly 570 with V 22.
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Dear you have provided excellent approach but it again took took me 4 minutes to solve by breaking and understanding what is the intent of each line
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But again thanks, I lack something somewhere that i need to improve ........ Oh Lord Help me !!

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Oh Man!!! How do i develop the IQ to even understand such questions. I have a fair bit of understanding of the English language (to support that claim, I would like to quote that I scored a 6.0 in my AWA ). I am unable to understand the level of thinking that questions such as these demand. Let alone answer, I could not even entirely make out what the passage meant to say. Help me out somebody please. I have scored a miserly 570 with V 22.



Questions like these are actually difficult. Once you spot such type of questions try to break down the argument into small pieces and then link them. You simply cannot read these type of questions without pausing and making sense of what's being said.


Science, because people engage in it, is a socially embedded activity -- Science is a activity that involves social engagement
It progresses by hunch, vision, and intuition -- pretty much clear
Much of its change through time does not record a closer approach to absolute truth, but the alternation of the cultural contexts that influence it so strongly. -- It is influenced more by cultural contexts than absolute truth.
Facts are not pure and unsullied bits of information— culture influences what we see and how we see it. -- facts are also influenced by culture influences
Theories, moreover, are not inexorable inductions from facts. --Theories are not derived directly from facts
The most creative theories are often imaginative visions imposed upon facts; the source of imagination is also strongly cultural.-- As most creative theories involve imagination and source of imagination is also cultural, so culture influences creative theories also.

If you had broken the sentence down, you would pretty much get the crux of the argument about how culture influences everything and you would have been able to pick the correct answer choice.

Hope this helps.

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The option D states about how cultural traits affects scientific notion hence this one is the answer. hope this one helps.
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We are given that Science works more on intuition/imagination than on closer approach to absolute truth. Then it says it is strongly influenced by culture. Everything is imaginative based on current facts.

The author implies that those who rely on scientific results should

a) realize that science relies on imagination to approach absolute truth : No we are said it is not even closer to absolute truth
b) insist on pure and unsullied facts rather than on theories : No such comparison is made.
c) understand that theories are frequently strict inductions from facts : Trap. Hold On.
d) consider the cultural biases of scientists : yeah, we got it. Correct. Now we can reject C as well.
e) reject the imaginative visions imposed on facts : No. It is exact opposite.
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Facts are not pure and unsullied bits of information— culture influences what we see and how we see it. Theories, moreover, are not inexorable inductions from facts.
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D is correct, it seems to capture what is central to the argument. i.e scientific results are influenced by cultural contexts.
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it was one amongst the easiest of the questions that has been pin down under 1 min 30 sec cut to chase the chase the author is discussing about the scientists how their imposing theories on the facts through the influence of culture others being out of context and the only option discussing the same is C
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science is not just facts and theories, it's also influenced by hunches, visions, ideas (that may seem crazy) and imagination. and most of these aspects changes with changes in culture.
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