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Here's your shmoop du jour, brought to you by Alexander Graham Bell. This guy phoned

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home even before ET.

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The first passage differs from the second in that it contains more...what?

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To summarize the main points of the two passages, Passage 1 is all about the historical background

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of telephones, and Passage 2 is basically all about... complaining.

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In order to figure out the main difference between the first passage and its grumpy counterpart,

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we'll have to keep our two main ideas tattooed on our brains.

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"Ambivalence" comes from the root word "ambivalent" and describes when a person

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has conflicting feelings about something.

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Knowing this definition, we can cross (A) off the list. Passage one doesn't seem conflicted

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about telephones at all. It's just giving us the facts, and if anything is generally

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positive about Bell's big invention. We can get rid of (B), too.

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We remember that it's the second passage that thinks telephones are evil, not the first,

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so we can say bye bye to this one. There aren't any quotes by any experts in

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either passage. So choice (D) is out.

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"Statistics" is the science of collecting

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numerical data in order to infer proportions from a small representative sample.

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We know a statistician is somewhere behind the scenes whenever we hear somebody quote

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something like 75% of blah blah blah do blah blah blah.

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Neither passage hits us with any kind of statistical info, though, so there's a 0% chance that

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(E) is the right answer.

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And then there's option C... The first passage is indeed filled with historical dates and

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info, while the second passage has none of that stuff.

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Choice (C) checks out with us...and with our brain tattoo.

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