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SAT Reading: Citing Evidence to Support a Definition 1 Views
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What does "nebulous" mean in this SAT Reading video? Watch to find out!
Transcript
- 00:03
all right next up in Psych hollows Villa she loved saying Zimbardo what a great
- 00:08
name and if let's you'd be like the name of the city all right which gives the
- 00:10
strongest forty injured to the previous question right all right so it was all [text on screen]
- 00:14
about nebulous nebulas being unclear so hmm all right so which is the strongest
- 00:20
evidence that it's unclear so now we got to go back to the lines all right so
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- 00:23
we're going to line 38 to start with yeah social science all right so we knew
- 00:28
that one and then it's an hour in line forty three and this one says these
- 00:33
kinds of effects are seen all the time is with the famous muller-lyer optical
- 00:37
illusion that causes visual confusion in most people all right there's the visual
- 00:41
confusion yeah and this one's longer that one's longer no they're even ok
- 00:45
lines 45 through 47 subjects in the Asch test may have been
- 00:49
making a judgment about the fal ability of their own senses yeah self-awareness
- 00:53
who'da thunk all right let's go to 47 through 49 what's the difference between
- 00:57
a willingness to doubt one's senses and a propensity for conformity ooh that
- 01:03
sounds really powerful is that it the best example of the term nebulous occurs
- 01:07
right there right after the term is used when the author presents two possible [text on chalkboard]
- 01:12
interpretations of the results two possibilities for the same data show
- 01:16
that the results lack clarity it's like you want a soft drink it's either Coke
- 01:20
or Pepsi and if you get really crazy you'd go with RC Cola over they are way [person shopping in supermarket]
- 01:24
in the back of Safeway good luck finding it anyway the other line cited all
- 01:28
expand on the basic idea but none of them come quite as close as juxtaposing
- 01:32
to equally possible explanations so get rid of all the others right answer is D [person fondling avocado]
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