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SAT Reading: Citing Evidence to Represent the Central Claim of a Social Science Passage 18 Views
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Oh look! A video on psychological testing 101...courtesy of the SAT Reading section.
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All right Moving on down the road Psychological testing one
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o one courtesy of the way to the following line
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from the text Best represent the central claim of passage
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to what's The central plains has it too Well let's
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go back to pass it to t forty forty three
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for the third time you were in shock And i
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don't think that every person is probably gonna be shut
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down for a little thing with a garden and i
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finally feel like i'm gonna bring everything okay So what's
- 00:31
the basic idea here Yeah people suck Where is that
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where's That a choice And i can't find that once
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the answer is instead of stating the central claim in
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the first paragraph this author sneaks it in at the
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end by saying the experiments showed that more precise control
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is needed in the field of social science Experimentation duh
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Although it's a great introductory sentence the first line of
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the passage fails to make any debatable claim This one
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is already proven saying that the experiment caused suffering is
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helpful but it doesn't take a real position because while
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anyone would agree that it caused suffering being willing to
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torture strangers for science that sure sounds like the limits
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of social science They're right but we're still missing an
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arguable claim So yeah we go with d people suck 00:01:15.059 --> [endTime] Oh wait no that's a different one
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