Hi everyone, I’m trying to develop my objective/logical skills in text completion rather than defaulting to using my ‘ear’ to subjectively understand the phrase. As Greg says, this is a more reliable and consistent process of approaching the questions.
However, I’m having trouble with this particular prompt from the video on this topic:
Specifically, I can’t figure out how to fill in these blanks only using the objective structure of the sentence.
For example, why can I not fill in the blanks here with false and stability respectively? It obviously makes little sense when using context/knowledge about business forecasts. But using just the prompt -
- ‘forecasts are usually accurate’ doesn’t give any information about whether the future will be like the past or not.
- ‘forecasts can be dangerously wrong’ also doesn’t give any information about ‘in times of major ___’
The only thing I can use from the sentence is the contrast between ‘usually’ vs ‘in times’ to determine that the first ‘times’ are normal, and the second ‘times’ are unusual. Then I guess I assume that the future being completely different than the past is probably unusual?
I think I may have just answered my own question while writing this…anyway please let me know if I’m completely off base here, thank you!