Episode 68: All You Need is Reason. And Money. And Wasabi Potato Chips.

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2016

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Ben jumps right into Episode 68 by introducing listeners to LSAT India and their catchy tagline, “All you need is reason.” Nathan wants to check out this version of the 2009 test but reminds us that here in America, the LSAT motto is more like “All you need is money.” (1:28)

We discuss a study that looks at the impact of texting and email on human IQ. Spoiler alert: it’s bad. Constant texting/emailing decreases the user’s IQ by an average of 10 points, definitely a problem when you are preparing for the LSAT. Get tips from the guys on how to disconnect and use those extra brain cells to raise your test score. (19:50)

Ben has an issue with the Powerscore Logical Reasoning Bible’s explanation of the Correlation-Causation flaw. Nathan agrees that properly understanding this flaw is paramount to LSAT success, so we discuss it in detail to clarify. (25:51)

A letter from listener Wasabi Potato Chips* asks for advice on how much to prep before attempting her third LSAT. Hear the guys’ response to WPC and their thoughts on the third attempt in general. (43:15) *not her real name…but hopefully a real flavor of potato chip

Finally, we work through another Reading Comprehension passage from the June 2007 test. This time we explain Passage 2 from Section 4, a comparative reading type of question. Download the test yourself and play along as we go. (1:02:00)

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0:14.5	Hello and welcome to episode 68 of the Thinking El-Sat podcast in Los Angeles. I'm Nathan Fox.
0:15.6	With me in Washington, D.C.
0:17.8	Is Ben Olson.
0:18.6	Ben, how you doing?
0:19.7	Good.
0:20.9	We got a lot of stuff on the agenda today. Let me run through the bullet points here.
0:25.0	We have something called Elsat India, which I've never heard of, and which Ben is going to explain to me.
0:30.0	We have a note about turning off texts while studying and maybe just turning off texts generally.
0:39.3	We've got a study to talk about. We're going to talk a little bit about correlation to causation.
0:45.4	It's a really important flaw. Many people don't even understand what we're talking about
0:49.1	when we say correlation to causation. So we're going to talk about that a little bit.
0:53.0	And then that's going to lead us into a clarification from the Power Score Logical Reasoning
0:58.0	Bible.
0:59.0	Ben and I have been going back and forth for weeks about this couple of pages in the Power Score Bible, which we think might
1:06.4	be slightly wrong, and so we just want to put it out there.
1:10.1	We have a letter from a listener, and we also want to go through a reading comprehension
1:15.2	passage from the June 2007 test.
1:18.4	So we are chock full of content today.
1:21.0	Ben, you think maybe we should just dive right in? Yeah let's do it. What is
1:25.0	L-Sat India? Okay so the other day I came across these L-Sats and it's free prep test number two.
1:37.7	We all know free prep test, the one that L-SAC provides, the June 2007 L-SAT. Well, some website had posted these other
1:49.8	L-sats and at first I was like I've never heard of this what the heck is this is this real is this legit
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