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These were two separate questions. “Extent of human’s…” is right for the first question.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if this was said already, but I put aggravated/butresses for the blood pressure one only because minimize didn’t seem correct in context. It was talking about the people that disproved the theory because they found inconclusive evidence that _____ the correlation. Which means that they proved the others wrong, and the others were attempting to MAXIMIZE the correlation, not minimize it. Thus, I put butresses because…they found inconclusive evidence that “points out” the correlation seemed more right to me. Then again, I’m only a sophmore…</p>
<p>It was asking what the point of the lists of all of certain large scientific advances was or something</p>
<p>It was the one that said “the unique abilities of the human mind”</p>
<p>“Buttress” means support. If they had inconclusive evidence, how would that support the correlation? That answer choice is wrong.</p>
<p>@doinwork</p>
<p>I agree, inconclusive data does not minimize a correlation…it makes correlation and data sets irrelevant. However, I did not know what buttressed meant and apparently it means to support so that does not work either.</p>
<p>Oh, I think that buttress might be the answer. Even though the evidence is inconclusive (i.e. it doesn’t for sure prove it 100%), it still makes the theory stronger?</p>
<p>I don’t think the ETS is assuming that students have taken AP stat, nor were they testing statistics knowledge. Grammatically and semantically, impair/minimize is the best choice.</p>
<p>but if evidence is inconclusive how can it minimize the correlation?</p>
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<p>But the question used the word “however” to set off the second sentence, so it should have presented a viewpoint contradictory to the first sentence.</p>
<p>actester , i agree for feline and court question</p>
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For the feline one, I put the only one that didn’t have the feline('s) habit, but just the habit, or maybe there were 2, which would make it D or E, not sure. For the Jurors correction, I put “By telling them” that the defendant had a huge criminal record (or something like that), which I think was D.</p>
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The logic doesn’t follow… How would inconclusive evidence strengthen or support (which are both synonyms of buttress) a correlation?</p>
<p>^That’s why I put “___…minimize.” But “aggravate…buttress” makes sense now.</p>
<p>Then again, a correlation could be minimized by bringing up contradictory evidence.</p>
<p>the answer choices were impair… minimize, not inconclusive… minimize</p>
<p>It said “some say that prolonged exposure to sound can ____ blood pressure regulation, however studies have produced inconclusive results that _____ the correlation” </p>
<p>It wanted something to contrast with what “some say” due to the word however. Minimize provides that contrast.</p>
<p>"Grammatically and semantically, impair/minimize is the best choice. "</p>
<p>And biologically, as hypertension is high blood pressure, implying a LACK of regulation. And if a correlation doesn’t show up in your lab results (“inconclusive”) the “connection” you had originally found would be minimized, since the numbers don’t back it up.</p>
<p>“Did anyone get E for the felines Improving Sentences question? And A for the jury question talking about what would happen if they saw a criminal’s previous record?”</p>
<p>I had A for juror’s question. But what was E for the feline’s?</p>
<p>@ACTTester</p>
<p>The scientists attempting to prove the correlation wrong were not the ones that HAD inconclusive evidence. They FOUND inconclusive evidence on the other side, the side of the scientists trying to support it. Therefore, they found inconclusive evidence that SUPPORTED(butresses) the correlation and were successful in proving the other side wrong.</p>
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I don’t remember what the choice was exactly, just what I put… -_-</p>