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#11 - In the last year, biologists have learned that there

 kristinajohnson@berkeley.edu
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-  Sun Sep 22, 2024 2:57 pm #109165
The difficulty I have with answer choice E is understanding what "objects" is replacing, how can objects stand in for animals or amphibians?
 Luke Haqq
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-  Fri Oct 11, 2024 6:31 pm #109816
Hi Kristina!

You can try replacing "objects" in this answer choice with "amphibians," so (E) would refer to a confusion between "changes in our knowledge of amphibians and changes in the amphibians themselves."

The reasoning in this stimulus is flawed because there could be changes in our knowledge about amphibians (such as how many we know to exist) that are independent of changes in the amphibians themselves (such as how many of them actually exist). It's possible that biologists could learn that there are many more species of amphibians even while the actual number of amphibians is decreasing.
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