<p>I don’t know if you would get a response by emailing… if they feel they’re wrong, then it won’t be a problem, but if they feel that they’re right (whether the answer is empirical or provisional), can they even tell you the answer? Or do they just say “we’re right, you’re wrong, can’t really tell you why 'till june 23rd”.</p>
<p>pioneer/vanguard was an answer, right?</p>
<p>^Was another choice in that very question like “zoo-visitors need to be amused”?</p>
<p>If you email, they send a response to you stating why you are wrong or right. It might take a while to get a response though…I’m not sure.</p>
<p>I don’t think it would be worth petitioning. All we can do is hope for a nice curve to this test. I remember that silverturtle’s appeal to CB about a PSAT question back in the day did not yield any results.</p>
<p>For the last passage, was it explore a topic in Psychology? Let’s focus on the Slave reader, zoo duals, and music-talent passages as those were the hardest ones.</p>
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<p>CB will probably have some butthole reason for why provisional/empirical is right</p>
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<p>This is a dumb question, but silverturtle is a NMF, right?</p>
<p>^Yeah. And he got a 2400 on the SAT back in January.</p>
<p>Yeah, I would just drop it. The harder CR questions are sometimes VERY arbitrary and based on what the College Board views as the “correct” answer that a prepared college student would choose…</p>
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<p>Yeah I knew he got the 2400 first try, so I just kind of assumed he was a NMF. And he got a 36 on the ACT…but I think he said he got a 35 in one section so it wasn’t pure. </p>
<p>He didn’t get a 240 on the PSAT did he?</p>
<p>I of course could be wrong, but I still believe the answer is empirical.</p>
<p>The sentence went something like this: “A theory of the universe is ________, as it cannot be proven, but can be disproven and replaced by another theory.”</p>
<p>While the sentence states that it can be replaced with another theory (so it could be temporary), the main point of that word revolves around the idea that the theory can’t be proven. So, with that, empirical relates to (according to Merriam Webster) “the practice of relying on observation and experiment especially in the natural sciences”</p>
<p>Empirical implies that it is not concretely PROVEN, as with, let’s say, a law of physics, but instead arrived at because of observation or experimentation. There is a difference between empirical data and PROVEN data-- empirical data implies something is occuring due to observations linked to that thing, but it does not mean it was definitively, without a doubt, proven. Empirical data would allow Newton to observe apples falling and present a theory because of it. But that theory was not truly verifiable or indisputable until the mathematics backed it up.</p>
<p>Empirical also fits well with the idea that the theory can be disproven (i.e. with other observations). </p>
<p>While I believe provisional fits with the idea that the theory was temporary, the main point was that it cannot be proven. Therefore, empricial is most logical because it implies a theory that was drawn from observatins and such, rather than a concrete, flawless mathematical formula, and can therefore be disproven and then replaced with another theory that (likely) also relies on empirical data.</p>
<p>CornetKing…I said psychological as well.</p>
<p>And LonDubh, that makes sense to me.</p>
<p>Empirical: derived from experiment and observation rather than theory.</p>
<p>I believe that makes “empirical” the wrong answer?</p>
<p>although i put emperical, provisional is the right answer</p>
<p>provisional also means that it can not be proven–rather, it is “accepted or adopted tentatively”-- Merriam webster dictionary</p>
<p>—Still, I think we should all petition for the quesiton to be cut out, so we can get a higher score though :D</p>
<p>Everyone email them about the question!! Just tell CB some BS like “emperical and provisional are synonyms and emperical is the right answer because it means based on experiment…blah blah blah”</p>
<p>It won’t matter if 1 or a million people email…the results will be the same. CB will either strike the question or say you are wrong…</p>
<p>yeah T_T provisional is the right answer
according to the dictionary, it says
empirical: capable of being verified or disproved by observation or experiment </p>
<p>this absolutely opposes the question that says
“A theory of the universe is ________, as it cannot be proven, but can be disproven and replaced by another theory.”</p>
<p>EVERYONE SEND COLLEGEBOARD AN EMAIL</p>
<p>someone put this as the answer earlier: “unconcerned with debates about zoo”
^ wasn’t another answer choice that they were aware? i’m pretty sure the second passage said that.</p>
<p>also on my test critical reading was experimental. did anyone not have one of these passages:
zoo
talent
Austrian girl
2 short passages about independent film </p>
<p>there might be some overlap there, it’s all i can remember from this morning</p>
<p>Pshh, I for one put provisional, and as I got slaughtered on the rest of the vocabulary (what the hell, enervating sounded SO right), I’d like it kept in :P</p>
<p>If empirical is “capable of being…disproved by observation…” wouldn’t it fit perfectly?</p>
<p>the results will be the same. CB will either strike the question or say you are wrong… </p>
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<p>Isn’t striking the question a good thing?</p>
<p>Although, admittedly I don’t know what “strike” the question means, lol, but I assumed it meant some like everyone gets a +1…but CB doesn’t work like that.</p>