When Copernicus changed the way we think

Answer choices

1. A

   Out of Scope: “chance”1% picked this

   Many valuable intellectual accomplishments occur by

   These examples don’t seem to be by chance. The causal difference-maker behind these accomplishments is shifting your focus / approach.

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2. B

   Correct92% picked this

   Shifting from earlier modes of thought can result in

   Why this is right

   “Shifting from earlier modes of thought” works with both examples, to line up with looked at same stuff in a different way and shifted focus from what had been the more common emphasis. And both examples were important advances.

   Skill tested: Most Supported · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   92%
3. C

   Too Strong: "rare" / Opposite1% picked this

   The ability to look at information from a different point of

   This does reinforce the causal difference-maker (looking at things differently), but we have no way to say this is rare. In fact, the last sentence says that history is full of examples like these, so we have some reason to think it’s not rare.

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4. D

   Out of Scope Comparison6% picked this

   Understanding is advanced less often by better organization of available information than it is by the

   Out of Scope Comparison: "better organization" / Opposite We have no way to know whether more advances came from This or from That. If anything, this answer goes against our examples. Our two examples were cases where understanding was advanced, but there was not an accumulation of new information. Rather, they looked at existing information differently (which may or may not have involved a better way of organizing the available info).

   6%
5. E

   Out of Scope0% picked this

   Dramatic intellectual breakthroughs are more easily accomplished in fields in which the amount of information

   Out of Scope: “information available is relatively small” This doesn’t touch on the causal difference-maker in our two examples, which was looking at things differently. Working in a field with relatively little available information is totally out of scope.

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