<p>@Darthpwner: After some consideration, I’ve conceded that the physics answer is wrong. I think I read into it and missed the right answer in my haste to finish the section. </p>
<p>Also, it’s definitely <em>not</em> approximate. 148 is an exact value. They were using the number to validate the claim that “multiples” were very common.</p>
Back in his day, dinosaurs were less cool, even though some new research came up
Yo Yo’s had been around for a long time, and like the dinosaurs before the commercialization in 1951, weren’t anything special
the author said something like “I would HOPE that it was our new research” and then goes on to shoot his hopes down
I thought it was very clear that the author was saying it wasn’t so much the technology/research/science, but the way companies marketed the product. Didn’t the passage conclude with an example of companies marketing dinosaur stuff?</p>
<p>No,it didnt. If you recall, he said that there has always been underlying information about something but the thing that made it a craze was marketing, it even said in the last paragraph. He said that yo-you were existent in 1950 but didn’t become a hit until 1951. Why would kids care about physics discoveries? Think about this logically. Whenever something becomes a hit, it’s because of marketing. For the dinomania, it became dinomania not because of new information but because people took the opportunity to market it. He specifically said every few years somebody figures out how to make yo-you more interesting.</p>
<p>@Mollified: I don’t think the “physics” answer is right anymore, but you nevertheless responded to an argument I never made. It doesn’t really matter, though. We’d have to see the question to break down the intricacies of my thought process completely.</p>
<p>@Meburi I agree. The answer was B, and it went something like “a new sales plan was developed”</p>
<p>and it WAS NOT idealogue, it WAS polymath (100% certain on this one). For that one Martha was proficient at physics, mathematics, chemistry, not to mention geology or something like that. So she was a true _______ and polymath is the best choice</p>
<p>The reason I ask is because I specifically remember the answer choice saying something that meant “Advertisement was invented,” not that it was used during this time period. On the other hand, there was an option that responded to the question with the answer “The amount of yo’yos bought in 1951 far exceeded that in 1950.”</p>
<p>@divy yes, that is an answer for a different question (the one that asked u to descirbe"evidence" which th answer is insufficient) the one m talking about is what the author of passage 1 says when he states “although i went great lengths to disprove that apes are not linguistic, …” which states that he admits he was compelled to avoid taht conclusion. I am positive this is the right answer,s ry</p>
<p>Alexissmith, the question was why did the author say “I realize that some may say I just want to disprove the theory” or something along the lines of that. And that was the answer</p>