\
  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?

...
stubborn step-uncle's house bbw
  03/18/17
ask your local gender/ethnic studies department graduates
Glittery Principal's Office Community Account
  03/18/17
probably like 80%
Crimson histrionic locus degenerate
  03/18/17
That must be an exaggeration
stubborn step-uncle's house bbw
  03/18/17
you greatly overestimate college graduates
Glittery Principal's Office Community Account
  03/18/17
I've literally taught them. they don't know shit
Crimson histrionic locus degenerate
  03/18/17
can you explain your experience with trying to teach it to t...
Cracking black woman
  03/18/17
they understand it perfectly when you explain it to them. bu...
Crimson histrionic locus degenerate
  03/18/17
They are generally more confused by the equivalency between ...
underhanded wild ticket booth wagecucks
  03/18/17
...
stubborn step-uncle's house bbw
  03/18/17
...
stubborn step-uncle's house bbw
  03/18/17
tons. I would literally drill it into them like a cult chan...
pea-brained crackhouse sneaky criminal
  03/18/17
What do you mean by "get it"?
cream thriller cumskin
  03/18/17
That it's logically valid.
Kink-friendly Sable Volcanic Crater Nursing Home
  03/18/17
You mean that the contrapositive of a true conditional state...
cream thriller cumskin
  03/18/17
don't get it like not capable of understanding it when it's ...
Overrated indirect expression pocket flask
  03/18/17
either not get it when explained or do get it when explained...
Cracking black woman
  03/18/17
what's that?
Embarrassed to the bone big piazza headpube
  03/18/17
Read In the basement of the ivory tower. actual retards get...
marvelous azure gaming laptop
  03/18/17
...
Cracking black woman
  03/18/17
...
Cracking black woman
  03/19/17
...
Cracking black woman
  03/19/17
...
Deep dysfunction
  03/19/17
...
Cracking black woman
  03/19/17
tmf
excitant house-broken legend
  03/19/17
...
Cracking black woman
  03/22/17
...
Cracking black woman
  04/14/17
...
Cracking black woman
  04/27/17
Most college grads don't.
vigorous school cafeteria pisswyrm
  04/27/17
explain
Cracking black woman
  04/28/17
You need to have an IQ of around 115 to grasp formal logic. ...
vigorous school cafeteria pisswyrm
  04/28/17
read this as "logic of the contraceptive"
godawful twinkling uncleanness indian lodge
  04/27/17
As a former LSAT instructor I'd say 80% can it up quickly en...
hairraiser yellow international law enforcement agency stage
  04/28/17
Just use unnecessary and insufficient to help explain then.
supple bearded station giraffe
  04/28/17
but can they apply it consistently to increasingly abstract ...
Cracking black woman
  04/28/17
first, you are dealing with people who are smarter than aver...
Olive menage
  04/28/17
(guy still DEVASTATED by necessary vs sufficient questions)
internet-worthy lodge messiness
  05/21/17
...
internet-worthy lodge messiness
  05/21/17
...
Cracking black woman
  04/28/17
...
Cracking black woman
  04/28/17
...
Cracking black woman
  04/28/17
...
Cracking black woman
  04/28/17
...
Cracking black woman
  04/28/17
...
Cracking black woman
  05/21/17
...
Cracking black woman
  06/15/17


Poast new message in this thread



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 3:47 PM
Author: stubborn step-uncle's house bbw



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



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 3:48 PM
Author: Glittery Principal's Office Community Account

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: Crimson histrionic locus degenerate

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: stubborn step-uncle's house bbw

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: Glittery Principal's Office Community Account

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: Crimson histrionic locus degenerate

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: Cracking black woman

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: Crimson histrionic locus degenerate

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: underhanded wild ticket booth wagecucks

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: stubborn step-uncle's house bbw



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



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 5:42 PM
Author: stubborn step-uncle's house bbw



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



Reply Favorite

Date: March 18th, 2017 5:59 PM
Author: pea-brained crackhouse sneaky criminal

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: cream thriller cumskin

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: Kink-friendly Sable Volcanic Crater Nursing Home

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: cream thriller cumskin

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: Overrated indirect expression pocket flask

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: Cracking black woman

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: Embarrassed to the bone big piazza headpube

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: marvelous azure gaming laptop

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: Cracking black woman



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



Reply Favorite

Date: March 19th, 2017 1:13 AM
Author: Cracking black woman



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



Reply Favorite

Date: March 19th, 2017 10:52 AM
Author: Cracking black woman



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



Reply Favorite

Date: March 19th, 2017 11:09 AM
Author: Deep dysfunction



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



Reply Favorite

Date: March 19th, 2017 6:23 PM
Author: Cracking black woman



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



Reply Favorite

Date: March 19th, 2017 6:24 PM
Author: excitant house-broken legend

tmf

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



Reply Favorite

Date: March 22nd, 2017 3:40 PM
Author: Cracking black woman



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



Reply Favorite

Date: April 14th, 2017 1:26 AM
Author: Cracking black woman



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



Reply Favorite

Date: April 27th, 2017 11:46 PM
Author: Cracking black woman



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



Reply Favorite

Date: April 27th, 2017 11:53 PM
Author: vigorous school cafeteria pisswyrm

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: Cracking black woman

explain

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



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2017 12:15 AM
Author: vigorous school cafeteria pisswyrm

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: godawful twinkling uncleanness indian lodge

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: hairraiser yellow international law enforcement agency stage

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: supple bearded station giraffe

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: Cracking black woman

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: Olive menage

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: internet-worthy lodge messiness

(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: internet-worthy lodge messiness



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



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2017 12:46 AM
Author: Cracking black woman



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



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2017 8:06 AM
Author: Cracking black woman



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



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2017 8:20 AM
Author: Cracking black woman



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



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2017 9:48 AM
Author: Cracking black woman



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



Reply Favorite

Date: April 28th, 2017 2:18 PM
Author: Cracking black woman



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



Reply Favorite

Date: May 21st, 2017 3:23 PM
Author: Cracking black woman



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



Reply Favorite

Date: June 15th, 2017 8:39 PM
Author: Cracking black woman



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