Which one of the following statements most accurately characterizes a difference between the two passages?
SailaNoelleon November 2, 2021
True/False flash card confusion
In the examples in the T/F section of his video, he explains how to convert T-->F and F-->T but yet some of the answers on the flash cards fail to convert. Wasn't the point of the exercise to teach us how to convert and translate? Very confusing.
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I have just reviewed the flash cards and I can't find any that failed to convert from false to true. If the question stem is already using "true" (as opposed to "false") language, then there is no need to convert. For example, if the question stem asks "If all the statements in the passage are true, which of the following CANNOT be true?,:" then in your head you should be looking for the correct answer "Cannot be True" and the incorrect answers "Could be True." We do these conversions because most people have an easier time dealing with/thinking in "true" language. But, the conversions in the opposite direction are completely valid as well. For example, we could translate the above "Cannot be True" example as "Must be False," (i.e., correct answer: must be False, incorrect answers: not necessarily true). The point of the exercise was to show you that the conversions both ways are possible and to get you to understand the equivalences between "true" and "false" language question stems as well as their logical opposites. If you have an easier time thinking in "false" language, you don't need to convert those to "true" language. What is important, is that you understand that they are equivalents and that you can convert.
I hope this clears that up. Feel free to follow-up if that is still not clear.
