Explanation for Question 34 From the Reading Section on the 2019 October Sat
Question 34 says the passage implies the probabilistic thinking did not become useful 2 until when. So, since this question is asking us to identify something that the 3 passage implies, we know that the answer might not come directly from text evidence, 4 but we'll be able to infer it with probably one level of analysis based 5 on something said in the passage. So let's look back here and we can 6 identify evidence to help us answer this question, 7 starting in line 22. 8 It says, of course, when you were dealing with the pressing existential problems, 9 our ancestor space, it was rarely necessary to make such fine distinctions. 10 It may not even have been desirable. So what these lines are saying is 11 that when you're dealing with matters of life and death, 12 which is, which are those pressing existential problems. 13 So when you're dealing with matters of life and death find distinctions, 14 or kind of this idea of calculating the probability 15 of something versus yes, something's bad versus no, 16 something's not bad. Wouldn't have been desirable. 17 So in this case, maybe those fine distinctions become 18 desirable when you're not dealing with the same kinds of problems. 19 So let's look at the answer choices here and see which one best matches 20 that idea. 21 So if we look at answer choice, a, it says probabilistic thinking did not 22 become useful until the problem. The problem of daily survival became a less pressing 23 issue than it had been in the past. So answ...