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How Does Thoreau Feel about Commerce?
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You'll have to read a table to answer this SAT Reading question on ZimbardoLand. Yes we just invented a country.


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All right next up in cycle Oh ville love saying

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zimbardo What a great name that it's What you'd be

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like The name of the city right which gives the

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strongest evidence or the answer to the previous question All

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right so it was all about nebulous nebulas being unclear

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So all right so which is the strongest evidence that

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it's unclear but now we got to go back the

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lines All right We're going to line thirty eight to

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start with Yeah so shines on my way Knew that

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one And then ah now in line forty three And

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this one says these kinds of effects are seen all

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the time is with the famous muehler liar optical illusion

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that causes visual confusion in most people All right there's

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The visual confusion Yeah this one's longer that one's longer

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No they're even okay Line's forty five to forty seventh

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Subjects in the ash test may have been making a

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judgment about the fallibility of their own senses Yeah Self

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awareness All right let's Go to forty seven three Forty

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nine what's The difference between a willingness to doubt one's

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senses and a propensity for conformity Ooh that sounds really

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powerful Is that it The best example of the term

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nebulous occurs right there right after the term is used

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When the author presents to possible interpretations of the results

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to possibilities for the same data Show that the results

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lack clarity It's like you want a soft drink its

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other coke or pepsi And if you get really crazy

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you go with rc cola over their way in the

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back of safeway Yeah good luck finding it anyway The

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other lines cited all expand on the basic idea but

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none of them come quite as closes juxtaposing two equally

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possible explanations to get rid of all the others right 00:01:36.67 --> [endTime] and through group

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