jabhatta2 wrote:
Flaw 2 Quote:
(B) doesnt really touch on why orientations are MORE PRONOUNCED in year 1 vs year 4.
(A) i thought did a better job on giving us a reason why orientations are MORE PRONOUCED (in year 1 vs year 4)
Sure, (B) helps us understand why the plurality of students in an eastern, big-city, private university are liberal but does (B) really explain why orientations are MORE pronounced in year 1 vs year 4 specifically ?
The "STRONGER PRONOUNCIATION" in orientation in year 4 vs year 1 -- i thought was better encapsulated in (A) vs (B)
Hence i picked A over B
Flaw 3 If you select (b) - you are being asked to believe
Quote:
Students have different experiences at Yale / Harvard/ Boston university
vs
If the same student attended Texas A&M / Florida College/ South carolina College
What 'experiences' could be SO DIFFERENT at
yale / harvard/ boston vs
texas A&M / Florida U/ South carolina university THAT students become MORE LIBERAL in the first case but more conservative in the second case ? What are some examples ?
We all have gone to college / univeristy -- is your experience at University X really so different than my experience at University Y ?
We are students at the end of the day. All universities have a set format -- classroom teaching or practicals followed up by examinations.
What could be SO FUNDAMENTALLY different.
jabhatta2Our job is to evaluate what is given and hypothesise based on that. Why does it happen is irrelevant to us. For all we know, it may not really be true in the real life but has been made up for the sake of the argument. In any case, it is not for us to worry about 'why.'
Studies show:
Students in an eastern, big-city, private university are liberal, whereas in a state-supported, southern college, the plurality was conservative.
Orientations were independent of the student's region of origin
Trends were much more pronounced in seniors than in beginning students
So the argument tells us that studies show that irrespective of where the students come from, as they spend time in college, eastern, big-city, private university students become liberal while state-supported, southern college students become conservative.
So option (B) is supported by the study.
B. The political orientations of college seniors depend significantly on experiences they have had while in college.
We know that at the beginning, there are no such trends but as time passes in college, these trends appear. So it must have something to do with the experiences during college.
A. The political orientations of college students are more similar to the political orientations of their parents when the students start college than when the students are seniors.
We have no idea whether children have political orientations similar to their parents (and there is no reason to assume this). The argument does not mention parents at all. Hence, there is no support for this option.
Answer (B)
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09 Aug 2022, 17:39
