<p>Wasn't it something like he didn't think people could think for themselves? I thought that fit as the answer more effectively</p>
<p>remember the paired short passage about machine translation from english to spanish and russian and the like?</p>
<p>the second question of that part was hard: it asked what both authors would agree on...i put that some languages are harder to translate than others but that answer didnt seem right...</p>
<p>Batman, I think it asked why he put them in quotations, and the rest of the paragraph discussed the attitudes and biases of political scientists. I could be wrong though.</p>
<p>Both authors would agree that machine translation is more difficult than previously believed or something along those lines.</p>
<p>agree with Geoffrey^^^^</p>
<p>for some reason i don't think that was an option..</p>
<p>can someone post a consolidated list for SC and the political science passages? thanks</p>
<p>also, some questions i dont think we've discussed for the political science ones:
1.first question about passage 2 (what is the purpose of second passage?),
2. how would author of passage 2 respond to the surveyors (i think the answer has society in it...)
3. passage 1 has satistical data and passage 2 does not?</p>
<ol>
<li>No idea...</li>
<li>i don't remember the question...</li>
<li>Correct, p1 had a lot of statistical stuff and p2 did not..</li>
</ol>
<p>What was the actual sententece for the diffused/unaffected question?</p>
<p>batman:Wasn't it something like he didn't think people could think for themselves? I thought that fit as the answer more effectively</p>
<p>i put this is it right?</p>
<p>Here are the most popular answers so far, but they are not necessarily correct. Also, some of the SC may be part of the experimental section. Please correct it if anything is blatantly wrong and feel free to add to the list!</p>
<p>***seem to be most argued over</p>
<p>SENTENCE COMPLETION
- unaffected***
- conundrum
- admirer/declined
- diffident
- ineffective against/not exceed
- flourish/central
- pristine/quixotic
- inquisition</p>
<p>ROBERT FROST
- satisfied about eluding question
- extend (to what degree)
- amount (measure)
- letters confirmed suspicion</p>
<p>POLITICAL
- articifical construct***
- gross understatement
- statistical data</p>
<p>MOTHER'S BOX
- marigold reminded of bad memories
- more comfortable with kids
- wrestling showed intensity
- recognized error in ways
- mother felt item still belonged to her
- disapproved yet sympathetic</p>
<p>DECOMPOSITION
- playfully skeptical
- teacher
- meticulous
- pulverized
- statement to make a change
- unconventional way to introduce scientific idea***
- importance of natural decomposition</p>
<p>The question was how the father felt about the mother's attempt to take the box or something like that.</p>
<p>For the language translation passage,</p>
<p>Why do we think it is "Machine translation has not been as effective as it was originally believed it would be"?</p>
<p>I remember thinking that that was the obvious answer because both of the passages were about its shortcomings, but there was zero textual evidence in the first passage that implied anything about expectations. The second passage certainly did, as it said "programmers first thought that full texts would be translated perfectly in no time", but there was nothing like that in the first one, and that is the kind of trap they like to throw in hard questions. </p>
<p>I put that some languages were harder to translate than others, which didn't seem right either, so I wouldn't be suprised if I just missed a sentence in passage 1 or something that makes the expectations answer correct.</p>
<p>Did I?</p>
<p>What was the question for ineffective against/not exceed?</p>
<p>A new compilation</p>
<p>SENTENCE COMPLETION
- unaffected***
- conundrum
- admirer/declined
- diffident
- ineffective against/not exceed
- flourish/central
- pristine/quixotic
- inquisition</p>
<p>ROBERT FROST
- satisfied about eluding question
- extend (to what degree)
- amount (measure)
- letters confirmed suspicion</p>
<p>POLITICAL
- articifical construct***
- gross understatement
- statistical data
- challenges the underlying assumption
- negative connotation*** </p>
<p>MOTHER'S BOX
- marigold reminded of bad memories
- more comfortable with kids
- wrestling showed intensity
- recognized error in ways
- mother felt item still belonged to her
- disapproved yet sympathetic
- direct narrative</p>
<p>DECOMPOSITION
- playfully skeptical
- teacher
- meticulous
- pulverized
- statement to make a change
- unconventional way to introduce scientific idea***
- importance of natural decomposition</p>
<p>PASSIONATE LETTER-WRITING GUY
- overwrought
- universal truth</p>
<p>BOTANIST
- versatile***</p>
<p>COMPUTER TRANSLATION
- more optimistic
- less effective than hoped to be</p>
<p>lolcats4: It was the sentence about vitamin C or something. Actually, I think it might've been on the experimental section. I'm not sure though.</p>
<p>Ineffective/exceed was something like:</p>
<p>Because higher dosages of vitamin C are known to be ...... against disease, the doctor told the patient to not ...... the recommended amount.</p>
<p>which one was importance of natural decomposition
was it the one like what purpose does the first paregraph serve</p>
<p>@Harvey33: </p>
<p>The translation question did seem tricky. I put "not as effective as they expected to be" because it was explicitly stated in one passage, and seemed to be...sort of implied in the other? The first passage talked about the trouble they were having, and why attempt at all if you didn't expect it to have some positive results? That was my reasoning, but I wasn't entirely happy with it. Here were the choices I remember:</p>
<ul>
<li>Some languages are harder to translate than others (No contextual evidence.)</li>
<li>Machines will never translate as fast as humans. (Seems to be implied in the passages, yet "never" is a VERY extreme term, and usually don't you want to avoid answers like that?)</li>
<li>Machines have not been as effective at translating as they were expected to be. (Definite textual evidence in one passage, sort-of-not-really evidence in the other passage.)</li>
</ul>
<p>What was inquisition???
Was that a experimental?</p>
<p>Curiosisity: I agree with your logic.</p>