Q1

[olaizola.mariana]

Why is the best answer (C) and not (E)? Is it because (E) places the emphasis on the Kayapo, who are featured only in the last paragraph?

[mansoury]

Hey, I agree with you that it places more emphasis than I would've liked on that particular piece of evidence. But what really made me prefer C over E is that I was troubled by the word "validates" in E. I thought it sounded too extreme given that the argument only says that it "lends credence to Ginsburg's position" (Line 47). "Validates" made it sound like the debate was settled, one side won, it's over.
Comparing that to the wording of C "some evidence that video technology is compatible with..." makes C a better match, IMO, to the author's tone in the passage. Maybe one of the tutors could validate that.
Hope that helps.
Mansoury

[olaizola.mariana]

That's a very good point. Thank you!

[ohthatpatrick]

The previous poster was a tutoring student of mine so it's heartwarming to watch him swoop in with the correct answer.

Let's add a complete explanation:

Question Type: Main Point

Pre-Phrase:
remind yourself of the overall purpose
(in this case, to present the debate between whether giving cameras to natives is going to taint their culture or simply allow them to better preserve it)

if the author weighed in with an Opinion on the topic, what was it?
(in this case, the author weighs in on the final sentence -- in the case of the Kayapo, the camera did NOT taint them with Western culture)

First pass through answers:
- does it sound like the author?
- is it too narrow?
- what's the most extreme word in it? (could I defend that strength of wording?)

== Answer Choices ==

(A) TOO NARROW. This is one side of the debate. Where's the other side? Where's the author's take?

(B) EXTREME -- "succeeded in eliminating"

(C) Sounds okay. Anthro's are 'divided' and 'some evidence' that video is alright. Safe.

(D) TOO NARROW - focusing on whether video preserves culture, but most of passage is about whether video taints culture. Also, this view sounds like the anthropologists in 40-43, the people the author endorses. And yet the main clause in this answer choice (the part that reflects the author's emphasis) is DISTANCING itself from that point of view

(E) EXTREME - The Kayapo study VALIDATES THE POSITION is much stronger than LENDS CREDENCE TO THE POSITION (line 47). It's otherwise pretty good. It's got the right debate and it's emphasizing the size of the debate the author landed on. We just need a more nuanced tone.

(C) is the correct answer.

Hope this helps.