Answer Choices
A) scientific concepts are often more specialized than are concepts in other disciplines.
what constitutes valid evidence varies widely across scientific fields.
scientific theories are easily misunderstood by nonscientists.
an idea assumed by scientists to be true may not be applicable in some contexts.
Explanation for Question 45 From the Reading Section on the 2021 May Sat (International)
Hey guys. So question 45 reads in placing the word knowledge in 2 quotation marks the author, most likely suggests that blank. 3 Let's go back and line 26 and see why are they putting knowledge in 4 quotation marks? Now this says that no one would have really expected this to 5 be the case and university of Montana researchers. 6 These guys were no exceptions, ecologists and evolutionary biologists 7 have brought upon the knowledge that it takes a very long time for new 8 species to form. So this is telling us in quotations that there's this knowledge 9 that takes species a long time to form, 10 but the entire port point of this article is telling us, 11 yeah, but actually these things didn't take that long to evolve. 12 They actually evolved a lot faster than that golden against this knowledge. 13 So I think there's authors being a little cheeky here. He's putting knowledge like 14 this to kind of be like, yeah, they say this is the knowledge, 15 but that's not necessarily true. 16 Even though this was the prevailing knowledge on that, 17 doesn't make it necessarily a hundred percent. 18 So EISA scientific concepts are often more specialized than our concepts in other disciplines. 19 It doesn't have anything to do a specialization. It seems talking about the idea 20 that, you know, like this is kind of wrong, you know, we shouldn't always 21 just follow that. Um, B says what constitutes valid evidence varies 22 widely across scientific fields. It's not about varying, 23 uh, ...