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SAT Reading: Defining "Nebulous" in the Context of a Social Science Passage 7 Views


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Nebula? Nebulous? Is there a difference? Watch this SAT Reading video to analyze some nebulous passages.


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our next question in the psychology as an experimental toy series as you can

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passage one for nebulous (line 37) most nearly means what [text on screen]

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nebulous and nebulae that's what a nebula looks like gaze at it enjoy it it [nebula]

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was taken by some very expensive piece of camera okay so here we go

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social science experiments also suffer from nebulous interpretations of result [text on screen]

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all right well the answer here yeah it's unclear beep well the answer is clear

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it's the answer itself it's unclear right well the author gives examples of

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the term by pointing out that the result could be interpreted in two different

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ways the results lack clear interpretations therefore they are

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unclear like that see the lens how it fogs up random doesn't quite capture the

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idea that the result had multiple logical possible interpretations random

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would be saying that the result proved the existence of unicorns you know that

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could have been one thing and they do exist right now [unicorns in a field]

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all right complex there doesn't fit because well both possible explanations [writing on chalkboard]

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are fairly straightforward it's just that we don't know which one is correct

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since one of them is likely right well we also wouldn't say that they're

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inaccurate so yeah it's unclear all right we're getting our Kleenex here to

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do what clean off the lens yeah much better all right now we're in focus and [more unicorns in a field]

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we can see the evil unicorn

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