Worked example: Living in a rational society | MCAT | Khan Academy
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This was very helpful!! thank you
for question 4, why isnt the answer B? it clearly states in the first sentence "predictability, calculability and control through technology..... answer b would coincide with that exact meaning. it says nothing about accommodations...
Exactly! And that's the only question she didn't go back to the text to prove it
cuz we missed the word "customized" yikes, they want uniformity only 😍
wow i actually managed to get most of those, but it took me a long time to look over the information :( I need to get much faster!
For question 2, I would have said A instead of C as paragraph 3 suggests increased age increases resistance to "procedures" and paragraph 7's last line suggests the more regimented our lives are, the more we long for change or are resistant to routine.
Yup, I don't think anything in the passage implies that people are willing to allow themselves to be treated as interchangeable. If anything, the disdain for fast food jobs and cookie-cutter housing would suggest the opposite.
In any case, mass produced fast food and housing have one common driver: low cost. The most correct answer to this as far as I am concerned is B. The reason junk food and shoddy housing persists is people's expressed preference for them for cost reasons; the market supplies what people demand, and people demand McDonald's and subdivisions because that is what they can afford. If they could afford fine dining or mansions, they would purchase those and mass produced food and housing wouldn't exist.
I may be guilty of "using information from the outside", but common sense and prevailing wisdom trumps anything the instructor is inferring from the content of the passage.
Yeah, I think that’s a use of outside information and biases. As these are both seemingly popular markets, it would appear that even with the desire for quality and uniqueness (and the housing even mentions that as a part of ‘upscale’ housing) that majority of folks are willing to give that up for ease of life.
I wish we did.
For question 1, why isn't "reduce the cost of wages and benefits" the answer when in paragraph 3 it talks about how the organization can obtain more from the employees for the money it pays them?
What I thought as well.
@@GuitarLvr21 Same. Simply put, it is clearly a more EFFICIENT use of money and resources. All the arguments about uniformity are far-fetched imo. The uniformity tied specifically to the example of houses (again, for the sake of efficiency...).
Stripping autonomy, and control via technology has so little to do with uniformity, especially compared to the rational explanation of efficiency that is supported by multiple ways (not to mention seems to be backed by not only the author, but real life practice, and just logic itself as well).
So annoying
It also notes the cost of paying for replacement workers, making upfront costs not so clear cut on the outcome.
When life is irrational 😂
These questions, and answer options, especially for question 2, are extremely subjective and lacking in nuance.
I can tell you in two words how to live in a rational society: Impeach Trump.
smh bringing politics into this
Irrelevant and unnecessary comment.
He’s about to after that Capitol Hill riot incident