Bro, this is brilliant. For the love of the ‘flying spaghetti monster’, please make more of these: Informative, funny, unforgettable, and just freakin awesome. Add Rump Shaker and you’ll achieve perfection.
this was the best lsat vid ive seen thus far, the little dad jokes and animation was beyond on point n did such a good job in holding attention on such a dry topic, y'all killed it (just like how i hope to kill flaw questions now)
I've been studying relentlessly for my LSAT this June and every other video makes me wanna fall asleep. These LSAT Lab videos have been just what needed to keep my energy up while learning.
This video gave me a BREAKTHROUGH regarding flaw answers that mention confusing sufficient with necessary, I could never wrap my head around it until you made the simple statement that it's fooling up the conditional logic! I know it sounds so simple but it was so helpful, especially with the visuals accompanying the explanation (3:52). Thanks!
This is an amazing video. I am really bad at LSAT, but after watching this, I regained my confidence and believed that I should be able to handle those flaw questions single-handed. Thank you again for this video!
By commonly correct we mean that when you see these flaws in the answer choices, they turn out to be correct more often than not. While the ones that are usually wrong turn out to be incorrect answers when you see them in the choices.
Honestly, this was the best way to put it for me and I went and practiced on khan academy all night and have only gotten 2 wrong. This is such an efficient way to explain topics!!! Thank you
haha, thank you for the encouragement. yes, I am a fallen angel, and let me tell you that LSAT Heaven is a surprisingly raw place, with an unexpected level of cussing and examples!
I just happened to come across this video after looking up Flaw questions and I am only 3 minutes in. This video is hilarious and I am loving this style.
I have been stressed studying for my LSAT and these have helped tremendously. I’ve laughed and truly enjoyed learning the content. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
So far I have mastered the : Resolve the issue, weaken/ strengthen, necessary sufficient, justify the conclusion, logic games and reading comprehension. But the identifying the flaw questions affect my grades significantly. I noticed I always get 7 wrong in the arguments section and it’s always the flaw questions.
This is a very educational and hilarious video. Half the time I was distracted by how good the quality was and how well everything flowed together. Awesome job!
These fallacies @4:00 are actually called Affirming the Consequent (necessary condition) and Denying the Antecedent (sufficient condition). We basically are doing to the other what are supposed to do with each condition (either we affirm the antecedent or deny the consequent for it to be logically valid).
Yeah a bunch of recurring LSAT flaws have fancier names (often latin). For example, I've heard students say that Part vs. Whole is called the Fallacy of Composition. But LSAT doesn't ever use language like consequent and antecedent, so we stick to language the test likes to use. I like your notion of "we basically are doing to the other what we are supposed to do with each condition", though, I'll probably steal that at some point. :)
@@LSATLab You are definitely right about the language, I just remember learning that in my formal logic class, and it helped me understand necessary and sufficient conditions a lot. And steal away! It’ll be nice to know I helped my helpers, haha!
OMG, my being a former sports reporter, you just made understanding flaws a slam dunk! Okay, maybe not exactly a slam dunk, but it was certainly the most interesting and engaging flaws lesson ever! I love sports, especially basketball. Anymore "basketball" lessons in the series?
Haha. If I had my druthers, every teaching example would be basketball related, because bball is the background radiation of my brain. But, sadly, other students hate sports and roll their eyes and mentally check out every time I use a basketball/sporting analogy. Sigh ... if only we didn't have to try to reach lots of different styles of learners. :)
Thanks, we're trying. As you can imagine, they're more time consuming to make (and when it gets close to a test, we usually have to spend 95% of our time on student support), but there are a couple more like this that we recently made for Reading Comp.
I really appreciate this! Because I have taken the lsat two times and did poorly. I will be retaking it for the third time this April, and I believe with content like this, it will be my last! So, please do for ALL the sessions if possible. Happy New Year!!!
6 of the 10 famous flaws are worth taking fairly seriously as the CORRECT answer. They really are the problem with the argument, a decent percent of the time. But 4 of them (Circular, Equivocation, Self-Contradiction, Inappropriate Appeal) are very rarely the correct answer. We mainly learn these flaws because they show up so frequently as an incorrect answer choice.
If I ever taught high school logic, this would immediately become my go to classroom instruction aid. Thank god I’m not a high school logic teacher 😮💨
The famous flaws are mainly just for Flaw and Parallel Flaw. The BIG exception is the Causal flaw, which dominates Strengthen / Weaken / Evaluate questions. You'll also see Sampling tested in the Assumption Family, and of course Nec vs. Suff flaw (conditional logic errors) are tested any time the test gives us conditional logic.
When you say that this is always the wrong answer, what does that mean? Does it mean that this is an answer that we should not select, or do you mean that it is a flawed and so we should select it for flawed questions?
They're both super rare, so it's cool to not know them. False Choice means the author is acting like there are only options, but he never actually established here are only two options. (e.g. Taking a limo and taking a helicopter are two ways we could get to Vegas in time for the show. Since all the helicopters are booked, we'll have to take a limo.) Intent vs. Outcome, aka Motive vs. Result, is when an author assumes that whatever thing happened, whatever the outcome of a certain action was must have been the person's intent. Like if I said something that was meant to be complimentary about Lisa's shirt, but Lisa thought I was making fun of it and felt bad, this LSAT author would say, "Clearly, Patrick's comment about her shirt was intended to make her feel bad".
Thank you this was so helpful. Just one question, maybe someone else can chime in. At 22:37 there's a chart showing 5 flaws that are commonly correct vs another 5 that are wrong. What about them is usually wrong and what is right? Is it saying like the answer choice saying it's a like a sampling flaw ?
Yeah, I struggled to think of a pithy way to communicate that, sorry. Mainly, I needed a 5 and 5 split for the sake of visual organization, but of the 10 famous flaws profiled in this video, 6 of them come up fairly frequently as the actual flaw (Nec/Suff, Causal, Part/Whole, Sampling, Ad Hom, Unproven/Proven False) and 4 of them primarily show up as incorrect answer choices (Circular, Equivocation, Self-Contradiction, Inappropriate Appeal).
When you say that certain question types are "commonly correct" or "usually wrong," what do you mean by that? Are these questions usually answered wrong by LSAT takers? Are the arguments in the blurbs usually wrong or correct?
Yeah, that's definitely the least clear part of the video, sorry. What we mean is that some of these Famous Flaws are commonly the actual problem with the argument we're reading and are thus the correct answer (Nec vs. Suff, Causal, Ad Hom, Unproven v. Proven False, Part/Whole). Others are almost always incorrect answers (they're very rarely the flaw that's happening on a Flaw question). Circular, Internal Contradiction, Equivocation, Inappropriate Appeal. Sampling is right on the borderline. It shows up a LOT as a trap answer, but it also IS the real problem (thus, the correct answer) a decent amount of the time. Does that make sense?
Those all basically act like the Arrow itself, so any idea coming after any of those terms would be on the Right side of the arrow. X --> Y X ensures Y X implies Y X leads to Y X will Y
THIS HAS MADE FLAW QUESTIONS MAKE SO MUCH MORE SENSE I OWE YOU MY LIFE
Haaaaa
Bro, this is brilliant. For the love of the ‘flying spaghetti monster’, please make more of these: Informative, funny, unforgettable, and just freakin awesome. Add Rump Shaker and you’ll achieve perfection.
I've been suffering through studying today and this actually put me in a good mood again. 10/10 deserves an Oscar
This is your best LSAT lab yet! Thank you so much!
this was the best lsat vid ive seen thus far, the little dad jokes and animation was beyond on point n did such a good job in holding attention on such a dry topic, y'all killed it (just like how i hope to kill flaw questions now)
haha, thanks for the love, go Seal Team Six on them boys.
I've been studying relentlessly for my LSAT this June and every other video makes me wanna fall asleep. These LSAT Lab videos have been just what needed to keep my energy up while learning.
This video gave me a BREAKTHROUGH regarding flaw answers that mention confusing sufficient with necessary, I could never wrap my head around it until you made the simple statement that it's fooling up the conditional logic! I know it sounds so simple but it was so helpful, especially with the visuals accompanying the explanation (3:52). Thanks!
Also explicitly stated at 5:03 !!! Amazing!
This video is AWESOME!!!! Literally a lifesaver and so funny and informative. Keep em coming!!!
I feel like it says something about my life that the best laugh I’ve had lately was watching this LSAT video. It’s just so good.
BEST educational video I've ever seen.
Thankyou! Lsat Lab. It's an amazing channel.
you GOATED on this video ! I have my lsat tomorrow
How did you do?
There couldn't be a more perfect video on flaws than this one! I could watch this for fun instead of studying. Bravo!
I love this especially basketball since I was a prior female baller!! Great job 📣📣🕹🕹🙏🏽🙏🏽💪🏾❤️
I really like the diversity and inclusion this content entails. Thanks!
I never thought I would be laughing while studying for the exam. This was awesome!
Thank you so much for making these, I wish I found your channel earlier!!
I love this! It’s very helpful and entertaining. Thank you 🙏🏼
I loved it! Used creativity and helped us to memorize LSAT concepts easily. Thank you!
Definitely your best video yet . Greatly appreciate y’all putting these out for us 💯.
This was amazing and I need more! You helped me soooo much!! Amazing content!!
I am watching this before my exam and this is the best video for the final review ever!
This is an amazing video. I am really bad at LSAT, but after watching this, I regained my confidence and believed that I should be able to handle those flaw questions single-handed. Thank you again for this video!
This is the most helpful LSAT lab video ever thank you!
Great video.. Can you please explain difference between Commonly correct vs usually wrong ( 22:26)
By commonly correct we mean that when you see these flaws in the answer choices, they turn out to be correct more often than not. While the ones that are usually wrong turn out to be incorrect answers when you see them in the choices.
Honestly, this was the best way to put it for me and I went and practiced on khan academy all night and have only gotten 2 wrong. This is such an efficient way to explain topics!!! Thank you
Love this video, it feels it was made by Marshall from HIMYM
This is GOLD! I love the humor, the cussing, the rawness and examples. You’re perfect omg ! Did you fall from LSAT HEAVEN? 🙏🏽
haha, thank you for the encouragement. yes, I am a fallen angel, and let me tell you that LSAT Heaven is a surprisingly raw place, with an unexpected level of cussing and examples!
genius humor and overall explanations!
I just happened to come across this video after looking up Flaw questions and I am only 3 minutes in. This video is hilarious and I am loving this style.
Thank you so much for making this video!
Thanks a lot! This actually really calmed me down before taking my FLEX test lol. Jer-bear was my fav part.
This was entertaining while being so helpful! Awesome
Video!
I have been stressed studying for my LSAT and these have helped tremendously. I’ve laughed and truly enjoyed learning the content. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
That's awesome to hear, thank you. Good luck, good luck, good luck.
So far I have mastered the : Resolve the issue, weaken/ strengthen, necessary sufficient, justify the conclusion, logic games and reading comprehension. But the identifying the flaw questions affect my grades significantly. I noticed I always get 7 wrong in the arguments section and it’s always the flaw questions.
Didn’t know studying LSAT could be this fun
This is the best commentated lsat video I have seen by far
Amazing video I just started my LSAT prep and this really explains things extremely well while being entertaining. Good job!
This is such a fun video!! Thanks for making this material which sometimes seems so dull, really entertaining and understandable.
I loved the style of the video, it made the flaws so much easier to understand !!
This video is a great study aid for the LSAT.
These videos are so freakin funny, understandable, and easy to remember. THANK YOU guys so much for taking the time to make them.
Thanks a lot! Glad they're working for you.
Excellent.............Excellent..................Excellent! Very well made.
Thank you for this amazing, entertaining and funny video! I really enjoyed.
This is a very educational and hilarious video. Half the time I was distracted by how good the quality was and how well everything flowed together. Awesome job!
Don't worry, it is an unsustainable level of quality. Crappier future videos will be easier to concentrate on. :) Thanks for watching!
your channel has helped me way more than the service I AM PAYING FOR has ----yeah that is right I am calling you out Kaplan
i love this!!!! Helps my lsat studies stay entertaining!
Excellent video! The improvisational tone keeps things exciting. 😅
Woow! Impeccable! Insightful! Thank you !
This was a great video, thanks.
Best LSAT lesson video ive ever seen lol. subscribed!
This is great! Thank you, Patrick :)
this video is SO ENGAGING compared to the ones I use in an lsat program I paid for lol, I love it!! Thanks for sharing
This is awesome! Thank you!
I wish all the videos on lsatlab were like this one, haha kidding. Great work, guys!!
Its good to mix it up now and then :)
Very VERY good explanation!
Incredibly well done
These fallacies @4:00 are actually called Affirming the Consequent (necessary condition) and Denying the Antecedent (sufficient condition). We basically are doing to the other what are supposed to do with each condition (either we affirm the antecedent or deny the consequent for it to be logically valid).
Yeah a bunch of recurring LSAT flaws have fancier names (often latin). For example, I've heard students say that Part vs. Whole is called the Fallacy of Composition.
But LSAT doesn't ever use language like consequent and antecedent, so we stick to language the test likes to use.
I like your notion of "we basically are doing to the other what we are supposed to do with each condition", though, I'll probably steal that at some point. :)
@@LSATLab You are definitely right about the language, I just remember learning that in my formal logic class, and it helped me understand necessary and sufficient conditions a lot.
And steal away! It’ll be nice to know I helped my helpers, haha!
Great video!!!!!! It helps the best with flaw reasoning!
If I could get all of my LSAT study videos in this form, I could ace the exam! Thank you 😀
Thank you so much for this! Such a useful vid for recognizing flaws correctly.
You're welcome! We're glad you liked it.
Very very helpful video! thank you ❤
Hey LSAT LAB! I love your content! looking forward to logic games and reading comp!
Crazy Work, Phew!
Thank you SO much! Very helpful video.
This was amazing! Basketball references were on point.
haha, thanks! I literally just logged into TH-cam to see my nightly NBA highlights over a dish of ice cream, and this comment is the cherry on top.
I literally love this so much
Awesome, thank you!
This is all I need for that 179
This was fun and informative. Thanks! Can you please use all of these voices in your next class XD
OMG, my being a former sports reporter, you just made understanding flaws a slam dunk! Okay, maybe not exactly a slam dunk, but it was certainly the most interesting and engaging flaws lesson ever! I love sports, especially basketball. Anymore "basketball" lessons in the series?
Haha. If I had my druthers, every teaching example would be basketball related, because bball is the background radiation of my brain. But, sadly, other students hate sports and roll their eyes and mentally check out every time I use a basketball/sporting analogy. Sigh ... if only we didn't have to try to reach lots of different styles of learners. :)
Can you please make a separate video on the circular reasoning concept and explain them with some LSAT questions?
This was really funny. Thanks!!
Best video on youtube
Please make more VIDEOS LIKE THIS!!!!
Thanks, we're trying. As you can imagine, they're more time consuming to make (and when it gets close to a test, we usually have to spend 95% of our time on student support), but there are a couple more like this that we recently made for Reading Comp.
I really appreciate this! Because I have taken the lsat two times and did poorly. I will be retaking it for the third time this April, and I believe with content like this, it will be my last! So, please do for ALL the sessions if possible. Happy New Year!!!
this is great thank you so much!!!
This must’ve took hard work to make, thank you
I know Patrick had a lot of fun making it!
the visuals and music is so good for my inability to watch long videos
Hi. Thanks for your video. Can you clarify what 22:23 “commonly correct and usually wrong” referring to? Thanks
6 of the 10 famous flaws are worth taking fairly seriously as the CORRECT answer. They really are the problem with the argument, a decent percent of the time.
But 4 of them (Circular, Equivocation, Self-Contradiction, Inappropriate Appeal) are very rarely the correct answer. We mainly learn these flaws because they show up so frequently as an incorrect answer choice.
LSAT Lab thanks so much
If I ever taught high school logic, this would immediately become my go to classroom instruction aid.
Thank god I’m not a high school logic teacher 😮💨
Thank you
At 22:18 what do Commonly Correct and Usually Wrong refer to? Is this referring to correct vs wrong answer choices or something else?
Incredible.
Amazing.
this was so funny I was cracking up for a good 25 minutes
Are these 10 flaw just for flaw questions or can they be used for other questions too
The famous flaws are mainly just for Flaw and Parallel Flaw. The BIG exception is the Causal flaw, which dominates Strengthen / Weaken / Evaluate questions. You'll also see Sampling tested in the Assumption Family, and of course Nec vs. Suff flaw (conditional logic errors) are tested any time the test gives us conditional logic.
When you say that this is always the wrong answer, what does that mean? Does it mean that this is an answer that we should not select, or do you mean that it is a flawed and so we should select it for flawed questions?
Thanks for trying to make the learning process a bit fun - everyone knows how boring it can get
this is the most out of pocket lsat video ive ever seen wdym lydia got so tall she DIED LMFAO
i turned this on at 7 in the morning to learn while i did my makeup but im crying laughing at the voiceovers and scenarios and bgms
This was fun.
i like patricks vids bc they're fun
Doubt: Can you elaborate more on false choice and Intent v Outcome flaws?
I didn't quite get them.
They're both super rare, so it's cool to not know them.
False Choice means the author is acting like there are only options, but he never actually established here are only two options.
(e.g. Taking a limo and taking a helicopter are two ways we could get to Vegas in time for the show. Since all the helicopters are booked, we'll have to take a limo.)
Intent vs. Outcome, aka Motive vs. Result, is when an author assumes that whatever thing happened, whatever the outcome of a certain action was must have been the person's intent.
Like if I said something that was meant to be complimentary about Lisa's shirt, but Lisa thought I was making fun of it and felt bad, this LSAT author would say, "Clearly, Patrick's comment about her shirt was intended to make her feel bad".
@@LSATLab I see......thankyou very much.....I understand them now.....
Thank you this was so helpful. Just one question, maybe someone else can chime in. At 22:37 there's a chart showing 5 flaws that are commonly correct vs another 5 that are wrong. What about them is usually wrong and what is right? Is it saying like the answer choice saying it's a like a sampling flaw ?
Yeah, I struggled to think of a pithy way to communicate that, sorry. Mainly, I needed a 5 and 5 split for the sake of visual organization, but of the 10 famous flaws profiled in this video, 6 of them come up fairly frequently as the actual flaw (Nec/Suff, Causal, Part/Whole, Sampling, Ad Hom, Unproven/Proven False) and 4 of them primarily show up as incorrect answer choices (Circular, Equivocation, Self-Contradiction, Inappropriate Appeal).
@@ohthatpatrick949 Ah thank you
When you say that certain question types are "commonly correct" or "usually wrong," what do you mean by that? Are these questions usually answered wrong by LSAT takers? Are the arguments in the blurbs usually wrong or correct?
Yeah, that's definitely the least clear part of the video, sorry. What we mean is that some of these Famous Flaws are commonly the actual problem with the argument we're reading and are thus the correct answer (Nec vs. Suff, Causal, Ad Hom, Unproven v. Proven False, Part/Whole).
Others are almost always incorrect answers (they're very rarely the flaw that's happening on a Flaw question). Circular, Internal Contradiction, Equivocation, Inappropriate Appeal.
Sampling is right on the borderline. It shows up a LOT as a trap answer, but it also IS the real problem (thus, the correct answer) a decent amount of the time.
Does that make sense?
@@LSATLab Yes. That clears up a lot. Thank you! This was an amazing video
im here to consult....foreboding
Ensure, implies, leads to and will are on the left or right side of the arrow?
Those all basically act like the Arrow itself, so any idea coming after any of those terms would be on the Right side of the arrow.
X --> Y
X ensures Y
X implies Y
X leads to Y
X will Y
@@LSATLab I asked my questioned weird, sorry. So these are necessary condition indicators?
@@2012staytrue Yes, one can think of them as introducing the necessary term in the relationship.
“Weird.. I was just gonna say cat”😂😂
17:42 LOL Biden did pick Kamala Harris for vp
haha, excellent point. Umm, it was Susan Rice? (whom no one would call a Social Democrat, but that's neither here nor there)
The only bad part about this video is that it ends
how do I put this lightly. lsat lab man I am in love with you
haha, you have a velveteen touch with words.
Lol 22:51caught me off guard.