Vijay (User)
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Thanks for your response
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Re:Critical Reasoning-New 1 Year, 1 Month ago
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Hi Naina
I have still not understood why A should be correct?
A clearly says that salt was abundant in the areas in which these black lived. It does not show in any way that they did not used it in their diets. In fact chances are that they may as well have used it.
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hey these questions were kinda tough!!
my answers are
1)B
2)E
3)A
4)C
5)A
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Re:Critical Reasoning-New 1 Year ago
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You’re right, Rishiraj, but that’s the whole point of the argument. The argument says that Black Americans suffer these health problems because their bodies haven't adapted to the higher-salt diets common in the US.
In A, the people from Senegal and Gambia are a control group - they are the descendants of Black Africans with salt available to them, and the Black Americans are descendants of the ones with little salt available to them.
Essentially, what A is saying is that people descended from Senegal and Gambia adapted to high-salt levels over time because salt was always available to them. This means that they’re more similar to White Americans in their tolerance of high salt levels than they are to Black Americans.
Hope this helps!
Keep posting!
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Vijay (User)
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Critical Reasoning-New 8 Months, 4 Weeks ago
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Armchair anthropologists of the Victorian Era rarely visited the lands in whose cultures they proclaimed themselves experts, and were as likely as not to call the inhabitants “savages.” By contrast, contemporary anthropologists, who are not taken seriously unless they have lived for a time among the people they study, are likely to use the more enlightened term “indigenous people.”
The author’s assertion about the superiority of contemporary anthropologists rests on which of the following assumptions about the word enlightened?
A. Victorian Era anthropologists often considered themselves enlightened even though they had never lived among the cultures they studied.
B. Enlightenment comes from direct observation and experience, and is not colored by preconceptions.
C. To be enlightened requires living among the cultures one is studying.
D. A person who has been enlightened can not, by definition, be called a "savage."
E. Anthropologists must be enlightened before they are properly prepared to spend time among the people they study.
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