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A cafe raised its coffee prices last
month.

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Same number of cups sold as before.

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And yet total coffee revenue went down.

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Under the clock, most test-takers grab the
answer that says the price hike scared

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customers off.

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That answer feels right, and it is wrong,
for a reason that will save you points all

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over this section.

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Hold on.

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Prices up, same number of cups, but
revenue down?

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Charge more for the same number of cups
and you make more money.

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That should be flat impossible.

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Should be.

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That itch you just felt, the sense that
these cannot all be true at once,

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is the entire game today.

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Hold the cafe.

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We solve it before the end, and the answer
is not what your gut just said.

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Quick retrieval from Episode 1 first.

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The argument skeleton.

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What are the three parts?

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Take a beat, answer before I do.

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Conclusion, the main claim.

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Premises, the support.

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And the assumption, the unstated bridge
across the gap between them.

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And we said the LSAT lives in that gap, so
most question types are just different

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ways of poking the assumption.

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Strengthen, weaken, flaw, necessary
assumption, all of them prod the same bridge.

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Here is the twist.

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Two of the three types today do not poke
an assumption at all,

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and confusing them is exactly where people
bleed points.

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So I cannot just run my usual
find-the-conclusion, find-the-gap routine on

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everything?

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Not blindly.

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Picture three doors.

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Door one, Paradox, has no conclusion at
all.

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It is two facts glaring at each other, and
your job is to make peace,

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not pick a winner.

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Door two, Evaluate, does still live in the
gap, but the answer is a question,

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not a statement.

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Door three, Cannot Be True, is pure
inference.

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There is no argument to attack.

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Same hallway, three different rooms, and
the most expensive mistake is forcing all

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three into the assumption frame.

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So the first move is not solving.

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It is figuring out which door I am
standing in front of.

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That is the objective.

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By the end of this episode, you read the
stem of any of these rare types and name

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the type plus its one job in under ten
seconds.

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Three moves today.

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Move one, Paradox and the make-both-true
tool.

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Move two, Evaluate and the variable test.

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Move three, a fast tour of the rare stems
so none of them surprise you.

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Door one.

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Here is the definition I want lodged in
your head.

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A paradox is two facts that seem to fight,
and your job is to make peace,

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not pick a winner.

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Nora, say it back, but tell me what the
right answer actually is.

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The right answer is a new fact.

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A new fact that lets both of the original
facts stay true at the same time.

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It never says one of them is false.

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It does not pick a side, it reconciles
them.

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That is the whole tool.

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We call it make both true.

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Now the stem.

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Watch for explain, resolve, reconcile,
paradox, discrepancy,

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conflict, and almost always the phrase if
true.

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That if true is a gift.

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It tells you to accept the answer choice
as a fresh given, a new piece of the world

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you assume is real.

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You are not judging whether it is
plausible.

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So I am handed the answer choice as a fact
and asked only, does this fact make the

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two weird things click together.

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That framing keeps you out of the most
common trap, where people argue with the

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answer choice instead of using it.

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Back to the cafe.

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Picture it.

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Same line out the door, same number of
cups crossing the counter,

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the menu board shows higher prices, and
the till at the end of the month is lighter.

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Fact one, prices up.

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Fact two, revenue down.

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Why would both be true at once?

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My gut still wants fewer customers.

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But we are told the same number of cups
sold, so that is dead.

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Same cups, higher price, less money.

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Stay in the gap between those two facts.

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What did we never specify?

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The size.

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We counted cups, not dollars per cup.

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So if everyone switched from the large to
the small after the price hike,

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you sell the same number of cups but each
one brings in less,

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and total revenue drops.

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Both facts survive.

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Now self-explain.

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Say why that move resolves it and a denial
would not.

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Because the size switch leaves prices up
and leaves revenue down.

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It adds a new fact between them.

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A denial, like saying prices did not
really rise, would just delete one of the facts

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I was told to keep.

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The test wants both standing.

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Compress it to a heuristic.

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A paradox answer is the missing puzzle
piece that lets both stubborn facts stay

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standing.

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It explains, it never denies.

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Now the traps, because paradox is where
careful readers still get robbed.

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Run every answer through three checks.

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Check one, is it a new fact, not just a
restatement?

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Check two, does it make both facts make
sense together?

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Check three, does it avoid contradicting
anything already stated?

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Lock them in.

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New fact.

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Bridges both sides.

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Does not contradict the stimulus.

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New, both, no contradiction.

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Second example, contrasting on purpose,
and I want you to fall into the trap.

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A town installed much brighter
streetlights to cut nighttime accidents.

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The next year, nighttime accidents rose.

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Answer A, the brighter lights made the
streets much easier to see at night.

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Answer B, the brighter lights drew far
more foot and bike traffic after dark.

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Pick one and defend it.

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I take A.

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Easier to see is clearly about the lights
and the accidents,

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so it is on topic, and it explains why the
town expected the lights to help.

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It fits the story cleanly.

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A.

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That confident pick is the trap, so watch
the mechanism.

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We need to explain why accidents went up
despite the lights.

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A says streets are easier to see.

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Easier to see should mean fewer accidents,
not more.

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So A does not reconcile the two facts.

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A deepens the paradox.

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It makes the conflict harder to believe,
because now the lights should have worked

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and accidents still climbed.

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Oh.

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I picked the one that makes it worse
because it sounded related.

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So related is not the same as resolving.

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That is the single most expensive paradox
mistake, and now you will feel it coming.

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The fix is a re-ask after you pick.

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Does this make it easier or harder to
believe both facts?

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Answer B passes.

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Brighter lights drew far more people out
after dark, so more bikes and pedestrians,

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so more chances for a collision.

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Lights are bright, accidents rose, both
true, because there are simply more people

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out there.

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So both examples share the same shape.

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The cafe and the streetlights each looked
impossible until a hidden variable showed

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up, size in one, foot traffic in the
other.

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The right answer is always the variable
nobody mentioned.

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That is the transfer I wanted you to
abstract.

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And notice what was absent in both.

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No conclusion, no assumption to attack.

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Two facts, one hidden bridge.

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The test writer builds the deepens trap
betting you grab familiar over functional.

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Door one, closed.

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Door two, Evaluate.

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Frame it as a question about questions.

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Which question, once answered, would most
help you judge this argument?

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Here is the part that throws people.

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The correct answer choice is usually
itself phrased as a question.

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That feels backwards.

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So I am not hunting for a statement that
strengthens or weakens.

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I am hunting for a question, and the right
question is the one whose answer would

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tell me whether the argument holds up.

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And people who forget that scan for a
normal declarative and get lost.

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Now the tool.

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Picture the candidate question with its
two opposite possible answers,

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a yes and a no, or a high and a low.

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If one answer would strengthen the
argument and the opposite would weaken it,

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that question is your choice.

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If both answers leave the argument equally
good or bad, the question is irrelevant,

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and it is wrong.

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PowerScore brands this the variance test,
but the idea is universal,

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so I will just call it the variable test.

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So the right question is a lever.

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Push it one way and the argument gets
stronger, push it the other way and it falls

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apart.

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A useless question does not move it at
all.

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Hold that lever.

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Make it concrete.

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Someone argues that a new office plant
policy boosted productivity,

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because output rose the month right after
the plants went in.

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I voice the candidate question.

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Did the company also change anything else
that month, like deadlines or staffing?

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Run the variable test out loud.

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If the answer is yes, they also moved
deadlines up, then maybe the deadlines caused

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the bump, not the plants, so the argument
weakens.

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If the answer is no, nothing else changed,
then the plants are the best explanation

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left, so the argument strengthens.

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Yes weakens, no strengthens.

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Opposite directions, so that is a real
Evaluate answer.

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Now a dud, so you can feel the contrast.

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What species of plant did they use?

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Run it.

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If it is a fern, productivity went up.

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If it is a cactus, productivity went up.

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Neither pole touches whether plants caused
the bump.

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The argument sits there unmoved, so that
question fails the test.

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Now self-explain the why.

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What made the first question pivotal and
the species question dead?

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The first one targets the assumption, that
the plants and not some other change

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caused the bump.

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The species question never touches that
assumption, so no answer to it can swing

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anything.

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Evaluate still lives in the gap, it just
hands me a question instead of a statement.

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That is the link back to Episode 1, said
in your own words.

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One efficiency rule, because the variable
test is laborious.

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Do not run it on all five.

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First throw out the plainly off-topic
choices, the species junk,

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then test only your one or two contenders.

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Honesty about frequency before the tour.

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Evaluate is genuinely rare.

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You might see one on a test, you might see
none.

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Cannot Be True is rare too.

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This is a recall layer, so your win is
fast recognition, not grinding twenty of

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each.

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Spend bank practice proportionally.

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Door three, the inference rooms.

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But first, an interleaving drill, because
spotting the type is the actual skill.

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Hit me with a stimulus and let me name the
door before I solve.

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Here it is, no stem yet.

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Every member of the hiking club has
summited Mount Rainier.

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No one who has summited Rainier is afraid
of heights.

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Those are the only facts.

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Before you touch an answer, which of
today's three doors is this,

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and how do you know?

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It is not Paradox, the two facts do not
fight, they stack.

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There is no conclusion and no because, so
it is not Evaluate either.

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It is just facts you can chain.

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That is the inference door.

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So this is heading for Cannot Be True or a
Must Be True cousin.

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That discrimination is the move, and most
students skip it and start solving the

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wrong way.

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Now the stem arrives.

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Cannot Be True.

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And first, kill the worst confusion in
this episode.

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Cannot Be True is not a weaken question.

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It is the mirror of Must Be True, a pure
inference task.

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You are not attacking an argument.

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You are finding the one statement the
facts make impossible.

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The correct answer must be false.

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And the profile inverts.

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So the four wrong answers each could be
true, consistent with the facts,

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and the one right answer is the one that
contradicts them.

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Which is the part that trips me.

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I see an answer that contradicts the
stimulus and I cross it out,

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thinking contradiction means wrong.

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And that reflex is exactly why you would
miss it.

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On Cannot Be True, contradicting the
stimulus is what makes an answer correct.

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Pause and try this one before I solve it.

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Which cannot be true?

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That Sam is a club member who is afraid of
heights, or that Sam is a club member who

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climbs every weekend?

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Chain it.

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Sam is a member, so Sam summited Rainier.

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Anyone who summited Rainier is not afraid
of heights, so Sam is not afraid of

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heights.

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So a club member afraid of heights cannot
be true.

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The weekend climber one could be true, the
facts say nothing against it.

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Conditional chains and contrapositives are
your tools there,

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and you used the chain straight through.

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Last stem, fill in the blank.

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The stimulus ends in a blank and the stem
says, which most logically completes the

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argument.

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Here is the trap.

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People treat it as one fixed skill.

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It is not.

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It is a format, and the blank's job
depends on the sentence right before it.

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It is also the most common of the
rare-looking stems we have covered,

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so it is worth real attention.

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So how do I tell which mode I am in?

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Read the word before the blank.

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After because or since, the blank is the
missing support, so it behaves like

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Strengthen.

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Otherwise it usually behaves like most
strongly supported, a soft inference.

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And that word most, in most logically
completes, signals soft,

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so you do not need airtight proof, just
the best-supported completion.

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Picture this.

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The new bridge cut the average commute by
twenty minutes, and surveys show drivers

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are happier, therefore the city should
blank.

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No because there, so you want the
conclusion best supported by those two facts,

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not an ironclad one.

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Lightning round, because this episode is
about recognition.

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I give the stem, you name the type and its
one-line job.

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Stem one.

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Which one, if true, most helps to explain
the apparent discrepancy above?

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Paradox.

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Job, find the new fact that makes both
facts true at once.

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Make both true.

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Stem two.

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The answer to which one of the following
questions most helps in evaluating the

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argument?

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Evaluate.

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Job, find the question whose two opposite
answers swing the argument in opposite

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directions.

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The variable test.

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Stem three.

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If the statements above are true, which
one of the following cannot be true?

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Cannot Be True, also called Must Be False.

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Job, find the one statement the facts make
impossible.

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It is inference, not weaken.

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And a terminology note so LSAC's wording
never rattles you.

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Resolve the paradox, explain the
discrepancy, and resolve reconcile

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explain all name the same type.

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Cannot be true and must be false are the
same type.

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Same room, different sign on the door.

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Here is your one heuristic for the whole
episode.

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Read the door, run the move.

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Read the stem, name the door, then run
that door's one move.

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Read the door, run the move.

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Read the door, run the move.

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And the cafe from the top, my gut said the
price hike scared customers off,

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but that stem was a paradox, so the right
answer never denies a fact.

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Same cups stays true, and the switch to
the small size reconciles it.

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I would have walked into the trap.

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You closed the loop.

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Next episode, Episode 11.

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We have spent ten episodes inside the
stimulus.

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Now we turn to the five answer choices
themselves, the trap patterns they hide,

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and how to read them fast under the clock.

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Between now and then, one tiny action.

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Pull five questions from the bank, read
only the stems, and name the door for each

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in under ten seconds.

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Do not solve them.

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Just name the door.

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That is the skill that pays.