\
  The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
BackRefresh Options Favorite

Are there college-educated people who don't get the logic of the contrapositive?

...
amethyst bespoke step-uncle's house cumskin
  03/18/17
ask your local gender/ethnic studies department graduates
judgmental nubile nursing home
  03/18/17
probably like 80%
claret plaza tank
  03/18/17
That must be an exaggeration
amethyst bespoke step-uncle's house cumskin
  03/18/17
you greatly overestimate college graduates
judgmental nubile nursing home
  03/18/17
I've literally taught them. they don't know shit
claret plaza tank
  03/18/17
can you explain your experience with trying to teach it to t...
brilliant glittery box office
  03/18/17
they understand it perfectly when you explain it to them. bu...
claret plaza tank
  03/18/17
They are generally more confused by the equivalency between ...
slap-happy cuckold goyim
  03/18/17
...
amethyst bespoke step-uncle's house cumskin
  03/18/17
...
amethyst bespoke step-uncle's house cumskin
  03/18/17
tons. I would literally drill it into them like a cult chan...
Olive Indecent Native Boltzmann
  03/18/17
What do you mean by "get it"?
Motley Cruise Ship Prole
  03/18/17
That it's logically valid.
Metal newt
  03/18/17
You mean that the contrapositive of a true conditional state...
Motley Cruise Ship Prole
  03/18/17
don't get it like not capable of understanding it when it's ...
charismatic carnelian legend range
  03/18/17
either not get it when explained or do get it when explained...
brilliant glittery box office
  03/18/17
what's that?
up-to-no-good white school
  03/18/17
Read In the basement of the ivory tower. actual retards get...
flickering cocky feces market
  03/18/17
...
brilliant glittery box office
  03/18/17
...
brilliant glittery box office
  03/19/17
...
brilliant glittery box office
  03/19/17
...
Mildly autistic weed whacker
  03/19/17
...
brilliant glittery box office
  03/19/17
tmf
hairraiser turquoise office
  03/19/17
...
brilliant glittery box office
  03/22/17
...
brilliant glittery box office
  04/14/17
...
brilliant glittery box office
  04/27/17
Most college grads don't.
Impertinent old irish cottage national
  04/27/17
explain
brilliant glittery box office
  04/28/17
You need to have an IQ of around 115 to grasp formal logic. ...
Impertinent old irish cottage national
  04/28/17
read this as "logic of the contraceptive"
vermilion mewling affirmative action
  04/27/17
As a former LSAT instructor I'd say 80% can it up quickly en...
copper azn space
  04/28/17
Just use unnecessary and insufficient to help explain then.
zombie-like pistol
  04/28/17
but can they apply it consistently to increasingly abstract ...
brilliant glittery box office
  04/28/17
first, you are dealing with people who are smarter than aver...
thriller misanthropic genital piercing party of the first part
  04/28/17
(guy still DEVASTATED by necessary vs sufficient questions)
salmon vengeful locus
  05/21/17
...
salmon vengeful locus
  05/21/17
...
brilliant glittery box office
  04/28/17
...
brilliant glittery box office
  04/28/17
...
brilliant glittery box office
  04/28/17
...
brilliant glittery box office
  04/28/17
...
brilliant glittery box office
  04/28/17
...
brilliant glittery box office
  05/21/17
...
brilliant glittery box office
  06/15/17


Poast new message in this thread



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 3:47 PM
Author: amethyst bespoke step-uncle's house cumskin



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32860235)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 3:48 PM
Author: judgmental nubile nursing home

ask your local gender/ethnic studies department graduates

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32860237)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 3:49 PM
Author: claret plaza tank

probably like 80%

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32860246)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 3:54 PM
Author: amethyst bespoke step-uncle's house cumskin

That must be an exaggeration

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32860271)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 3:55 PM
Author: judgmental nubile nursing home

you greatly overestimate college graduates

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32860274)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 4:20 PM
Author: claret plaza tank

I've literally taught them. they don't know shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32860432)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 5:01 PM
Author: brilliant glittery box office

can you explain your experience with trying to teach it to them? what issue do they have with the logic?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32860674)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 6:50 PM
Author: claret plaza tank

they understand it perfectly when you explain it to them. but if it comes up in the wild, forget about it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32861332)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 3:50 PM
Author: slap-happy cuckold goyim

They are generally more confused by the equivalency between converse and inverse

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32860254)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 4:19 PM
Author: amethyst bespoke step-uncle's house cumskin



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32860425)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 5:42 PM
Author: amethyst bespoke step-uncle's house cumskin



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32860937)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 5:59 PM
Author: Olive Indecent Native Boltzmann

tons. I would literally drill it into them like a cult chant when I taught it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32861064)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 6:01 PM
Author: Motley Cruise Ship Prole

What do you mean by "get it"?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32861081)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 6:05 PM
Author: Metal newt

That it's logically valid.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32861108)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 6:06 PM
Author: Motley Cruise Ship Prole

You mean that the contrapositive of a true conditional statement is always true?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32861116)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 6:07 PM
Author: charismatic carnelian legend range

don't get it like not capable of understanding it when it's explained? or like they come out of college, graduating and aren't familiar with it?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32861123)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 7:34 PM
Author: brilliant glittery box office

either not get it when explained or do get it when explained, but not able to apply it to statements whose logic does not correlate to any real-life situation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32861648)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 7:06 PM
Author: up-to-no-good white school

what's that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32861443)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 7:08 PM
Author: flickering cocky feces market

Read In the basement of the ivory tower. actual retards get college degrees, bro.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32861460)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 11:58 PM
Author: brilliant glittery box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32863514)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 19th, 2017 1:13 AM
Author: brilliant glittery box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32864062)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 19th, 2017 10:52 AM
Author: brilliant glittery box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32865145)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 19th, 2017 11:09 AM
Author: Mildly autistic weed whacker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32865235)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 19th, 2017 6:23 PM
Author: brilliant glittery box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32868476)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 19th, 2017 6:24 PM
Author: hairraiser turquoise office

tmf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32868488)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 22nd, 2017 3:40 PM
Author: brilliant glittery box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#32890290)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 14th, 2017 1:26 AM
Author: brilliant glittery box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33070179)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 27th, 2017 11:46 PM
Author: brilliant glittery box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33181541)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 27th, 2017 11:53 PM
Author: Impertinent old irish cottage national

Most college grads don't.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33181585)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2017 12:12 AM
Author: brilliant glittery box office

explain

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33181727)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2017 12:15 AM
Author: Impertinent old irish cottage national

You need to have an IQ of around 115 to grasp formal logic. The median college grad IQ is lower. QED.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33181738)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 27th, 2017 11:59 PM
Author: vermilion mewling affirmative action

read this as "logic of the contraceptive"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33181634)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2017 12:15 AM
Author: copper azn space

As a former LSAT instructor I'd say 80% can it up quickly enough when you explain it to them. They are DEVASTATED by necessary vs sufficient conditions.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33181742)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2017 12:17 AM
Author: zombie-like pistol

Just use unnecessary and insufficient to help explain then.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33181755)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2017 12:21 AM
Author: brilliant glittery box office

but can they apply it consistently to increasingly abstract situations?

how did they do on those grouping games with chains of conditional statements?

also describe the DEVASTATION

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33181773)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2017 12:27 AM
Author: thriller misanthropic genital piercing party of the first part

first, you are dealing with people who are smarter than average college students if you are an lsat instructor.

second, you didn't say how many got it before you explained it

third, i'd like to hear more about your n vs s stuff

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33181802)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 21st, 2017 3:36 PM
Author: salmon vengeful locus

(guy still DEVASTATED by necessary vs sufficient questions)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33359479)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 21st, 2017 3:35 PM
Author: salmon vengeful locus



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33359469)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2017 12:46 AM
Author: brilliant glittery box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33181919)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2017 8:06 AM
Author: brilliant glittery box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33182675)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2017 8:20 AM
Author: brilliant glittery box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33182732)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2017 9:48 AM
Author: brilliant glittery box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33183130)



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2017 2:18 PM
Author: brilliant glittery box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33185399)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 21st, 2017 3:23 PM
Author: brilliant glittery box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33359387)



Reply Favorite

Date: June 15th, 2017 8:39 PM
Author: brilliant glittery box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3557069&forum_id=2#33568398)