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What does "nebulous" mean in this SAT Reading video? Watch to find out!


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all right next up in Psych hollows Villa she loved saying Zimbardo what a great

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name and if let's you'd be like the name of the city all right which gives the

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strongest forty injured to the previous question right all right so it was all [text on screen]

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about nebulous nebulas being unclear so hmm all right so which is the strongest

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evidence that it's unclear so now we got to go back to the lines all right so

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we're going to line 38 to start with yeah social science all right so we knew

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that one and then it's an hour in line forty three and this one says these

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kinds of effects are seen all the time is with the famous muller-lyer optical

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illusion that causes visual confusion in most people all right there's the visual

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confusion yeah and this one's longer that one's longer no they're even ok

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lines 45 through 47 subjects in the Asch test may have been

00:49

making a judgment about the fal ability of their own senses yeah self-awareness

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who'da thunk all right let's go to 47 through 49 what's the difference between

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a willingness to doubt one's senses and a propensity for conformity ooh that

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sounds really powerful is that it the best example of the term nebulous occurs

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right there right after the term is used when the author presents two possible [text on chalkboard]

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interpretations of the results two possibilities for the same data show

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that the results lack clarity it's like you want a soft drink it's either Coke

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or Pepsi and if you get really crazy you'd go with RC Cola over they are way [person shopping in supermarket]

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in the back of Safeway good luck finding it anyway the other line cited all

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expand on the basic idea but none of them come quite as close as juxtaposing

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to equally possible explanations so get rid of all the others right answer is D [person fondling avocado]

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