Q5

[kdaddymax]

Can someone explain how to get to the right answer here? I had no problems with any of the other questions, but struggled with this one. I was able to eliminate A pretty easily, and B for "scientific researchers." I ended up choosing E, and I thought C was more tempting than D.

[b.lin.22.13]

D is the right answer because in the first paragraph of passage A, you see numerous references to bodybuilders as if speaking to a familiar audience. Bodybuilding is actually not mentioned in passage B, as it just seeks to explain a phenomenon by providing evidence.

Another thing I noted in comparing the two passages is that passage A is a lot more casual and mentions two possibilities without provide specific support for one hypothesis vs. another (this is how I ruled out B)

E just seems out there and there's no support from either of the passages distinguishing between sports psychologists and exercise physiologists.

[ohthatpatrick]

Question Type:
Analogy/Application

Answer expected in lines/paragraph:
Not sure .... I might have guessed
Psg A: Lines 1-4, 7-9, 10-12, 29-31.
Psg B: 38-40

Any prephrase?
Not a lot of support / prediction here. Psg A sounded a little more scholarly / scientific. Psg B used the word "buff", so it sounded more pop culture. Both of them, though, are addressing an audience that would be curious about muscle memory and what causes it.

Correct answer:
D

Answer choice analysis:

(A) Not sure how we'd support "skeptical" or "personal experience"

(B) Not sure how we'd know psg B was going after "trainers/coaches" rather than just "athletes".

(C) Not sure how we'd justify a difference between exercising w/ or w/o professional help.

(D) Yes, ultimately. How do we know that psg A is more specifically to bodybuilders? The 3rd paragraph says things like "the first time YOU trained" … "You increased weight cautiously" … tec. Meanwhile, psg B is saying "people who have been buff before", using generic 3rd person instead of 2nd person.

(E) Not sure how we'd justify a difference between sports psychologists and exercise physiologists.

Takeaway/Pattern: This is an annoying question, I'd say. It catches me by surprise, at least. I had no sense of what they were going for, noticing only a switch between more analytic/scientific wording in psg A and more causal wording in psg B.

As it turns out, I should have kept scanning psg A until I saw the 3rd paragraph shift to 2nd person voice. Mainly, I would count on myself stealing this question by checking out the available distinctions and asking myself, "COULD I say that one was more about working out w/ trainer, one was more about working out at home?"

Once I posed my brain the question of "WAS Psg A directed more specifically to bodybuilders?", my brain had a vague recollection that Psg A at some point said something like "As you know ... when you're lifting weight". I investigated that vague recollection by looking through the passage, and when I found P3, I saw that I could actually justify the distinction in (D). I think I could have talked myself into (E) if I had to, but there isn't the same level of explicit textual support we get for (D).

#officialexplanation

[JorieB701]

I’m curious, Patrick.. you say there’s a shift to second person POV in passage A in the third paragraph but it’s occurring in the second paragraph as well right? And answer choice A attributes “personal experience” to passage B but if it had instead attributed it to passage A and for B, something like “people with some awareness of the phenomenon under discussion,” do you think it could be supported?
And good point about the second person POV. I’m kind of ashamed I didn’t notice that during timed PT or even make note of it during initial review.
Posing the question to yourself, as you did here, seems so obvious and yet I have never tried this.. do you often find that helpful in RC for many or most question types?