<p>Now that I think of it, I can only see that answer choice being correct…</p>
<p>I don’t understand why the one with melodramatic, paradoxical etc. was paradoxical. i considered paradoxical, but then i put typical because the author described it happening a lot. please explain why it is paradoxical?</p>
<p>@jeffreycoleman, how can something that is generational happen a lot? He said that we wanted technology — we got it — and now we want more. Nothing about that is typical because it doesn’t happen frequently.</p>
<p>Anyways…i put melodramatic, but it turns out that was too extreme.</p>
<p>yes but the emotion of wanting more is typical. there is no paradox in that!</p>
<p>paradoxical means self-contradictory-which that statement was not…</p>
<p>although i suppose in some ways people contradict themselves by accepting new technology…but that seems like overthinking.</p>
<p>@jeffrey, it also means doing things in circular manner.</p>
<p>I think it is definitely paradoxical, here is my reasoning: the statement made at the very beginning was “isn’t it funny that in a world where we complain about the inadequacy es in our language when it comes to children we also bring down technologies that help them learn that language?” I think it was actually referring to that line too. Therefore, it is a paradox.</p>
<p>does anyone else make careless mistakes/talk themselves out of answers? I feel bad…i got a 760 CR last time- i wanted to do better ALONG with boosting my unsatisfactory math score :(</p>
<p>Can anyone explain what the antithetical question was?
And in the texting passage, I remember getting that passage 1 denounces it while passage 2 criticzes it less. Is that the same answer as the one you guys have?</p>
<p>Excuse me for posting it again, but I’m really confused.
Are you guys sure it is “concealed within”?
I think it was something like "The Queen wanted some miniatures of her but her mother didn’t allow because they were ______ her ring. I’m not sure though, because it made no sense… What was the original question that you remember?</p>
<p>And… is that “cajolery/play” or “bribery/affection”? I don’t think “cajolery” was mentioned</p>
<p>i’m pretty sure it was concealed within. … don’t over think that question. if you want to hide something because of disgrace, it would be within your ring, not on the outside.</p>
<p>also, i’m pretty sure it was cajolery and play because the mom tried to coax the girl into playing with the doll several times while the father obviously played with her.</p>
<p>it was Definitely not bribery so that one can be eliminated.</p>
<p>Yeah the concealed within I was really surprised because that was the only one I missed and it was the first question
I put disgrace but it seems everyone else didn’t</p>
<p>ok for the astrophysical characteristics one, this was my reasoning:
Previously, the “scientists” mentioned criticized the solar system for being mundane and boring and nothing, looking only at these “astrophysical characteristics” objectively and nothing else. Now the answer choice was something like ‘we shouldn’t simply look at these astrophysical characteristics’ because this is the world we live in, and the world is more than just matter.</p>
<p>Ah. Well, I read his comment as rather…acidic? Like somewhat biting - he was criticizing those who thought our solar system was insignificant and useless. He said, “this is, after all, the world that we live in”, or something along those lines. He was implying that those “extragalactic” scientists were not to be taken seriously, or at least that they were in the wrong.
No?</p>
<p>I agree that he was somewhat biting, but I don’t think you can extract that he thought these scientists weren’t to be taken seriously from that alone. He didn’t mention credentials or anything, and I think that that answer cannot be extracted merely from the text. The SAT normally chooses the more objective answer more present in the text, so I think my answer was the best choice.</p>
<p>Sure. But I also noticed that a lot of the passage (or at least around that comment) was concerned with “other” scientists versus Eugene Shoemaker (the geologist in question). So I dunno. Even if my answer was a bit extreme, I don’t see how astrophysical characteristics really relate to his comment about the world that we live in.
I dunno mayne.</p>
<p>The question asked for what the author would say about the scientists.</p>
<p>The author wanted to tell the scientists that the world cannot be so objectively viewed, as simply an oject of beauty and usefulness. I thought it was obvious that the scientists in question looked down upon the solar system solely because of its lame astrophysical characteristics.</p>
<p>Ok easier way to settle this dispute: if anyone remembers any quotes from the passage, we can find it online and see it.</p>
<p>i think i put typical for paradoxical vs melodramatic one. did everyone agree the answer was the paradox?</p>