Causation | LSAT Logical Reasoning

LSAT authors frequently present a Curious Fact and then pose/assume some Causal Explanation for that idea, leading us to ponder the plausibility of that explanation and the possibility of other explanations.

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[teresasu]

First thank you so much for the lesson, it's amazingly helpful!! I have one question, since we talked about when x correlates y, we cannot say x causes y (because there might be other ways to explain), why for the last question around 21:30, when in the question it says these factors TEND TO isolate local politician from their electorates, we just treat is as a causal relationship. i though TEND TO is a keyword indicating a correlation as explained in the earlier part. THANK YOU!

[brandonkris]

I'm shocked this video doesn't have more views/likes.

[nezsa]

I have a question on 25:44 .. you claimed that we cannot choose answer E because of reverse causality. But, I thought that was a way of explaining a argument??? I thought that Y could cause X and it was only LEGIT in Causal Logic? In addition, the 3rd factor is another way to explain? Or did I confuse myself? Are you saying a way to see what is wrong with the argument is to think to ourselves multiple other ways it could be wrong? Like the College and Vocabulary example.. We could argue that wealthy people are the real reasons why their children are able to obtain advanced vocabulary and not just X leads to Y???

[jfkgotnoscoped]

The pie charts on your videos pertaining to question type frequency… Do those percentages reflect the LSAT flex accurately?

[haritharaghupathi]

If ANC A read " If politicians were less isolated from their electorate then there is a chance that any particular acts of resident participation will elicit a positive response" ; then would it be an ANC supported by the given facts?

[TheOMGFlavio]

How long till reading comprehension videos? that's the only section I'm struggling on :/