Q3

[jardinsouslapluie5]

Could you clarify this question?
I am not good at analogy questions.

[ohthatpatrick]

Yeah, Analogy questions are probably among most people's least favorites in RC.

They're annoying, since the answer choices all go beyond what was provided in the passage.

What's crucial is that, before we look at answer choices, we know what detail(s) from the passage the answer choice is supposed to reinforce or match up with.

Here, they're asking us for something analogous to Marshall's strategies.

Well, what were his strategies?

(Go ahead and look back at the passage. Try to come up with a short, one or two item paraphrase of what he did ... then you can see how closely your paraphrase matches mine. THIS is where the battle is won or lost on Analogy questions. If you get the right detail(s) from the passage, you know what to look for in the answers)

(Got your paraphrase? Okay here's mine)

What were his strategies?
i. He found the "right" client - he wanted the details of the case to be useful and for the client to be likeable
ii. He used sociological/psychological data to build the case that unjust rules caused public hardships.

Note that all I'm doing here is finding a way to sum up paragraph 2 and 3.

P2 begins "one aspect of this campaign" = i.e., one strategy
P3 begins "in addition" = another strategy

Now that we have a mental checklist of what Marshall did, we'll try to see which answer best matches up with his two main strategies.

A) Maybe. The first half sounds like finding the "right" case ... the second half sounds like using scientific data to justify widespread harm.

B) Nope. Neither half matches what we were looking for. "Practical urgency" isn't "finding the right case". "assigning to the best known members of the firm" isn't "using science data to demonstrate widespread harm".

C) Nope. First half is a poor match for our first ingredient. The second half is a hopeless match for our second ingredient.

D) Nope. First half is doubtful. Second half is hopeless.

E) Nope. First half is good. Second half is not.

Hope this helps.

[wj097]

I crossed out (A) bc I was strictly sticking to the passage where it said "sociological/psychological" data not just any data...(I came to distinguish the two as the passage seem to classify s/p data as nonlegal materials from all other data)..what am I dong wrong here...

[doug.feng]

I crossed out (A) bc I was strictly sticking to the passage where it said "sociological/psychological" data not just any data...(I came to distinguish the two as the passage seem to classify s/p data as nonlegal materials from all other data)..what am I dong wrong here...

On my first pass or two, I did the exact same thing. However, there is no indication that the "widespread medical problems" are not PSYCHOLOGICAL medical problems. While it is weak, the other answer choices are clearly out of scope and this would be the only answer anyways. I think we have to think about this in a broader spectrum of things, and medical authorities could be providing statistics that are psychological (open to interpretation because of how loose the words are in the answer choice).