Timeline for A GRE verbal question -- I think the given answer is wrong
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| Sep 30, 2013 at 2:26 | comment | added | Giambattista | @user814064 OK Fine. I'm not a baby; I can admit fault. I did not read the Answer key. I only read the text and the choices because I assumed a damn reference book to be correct. Of the people who gave an argument that was academic (which I assumed they were looking for), mine was based on a very modern interpretation that I'd expect at the post-graduate level in my defense.. But yeah, no, that's a typo. And I'm not so much of an ass to admit that I was wrong now that you've pointed it out. Frankly, I'm embarrassed that I missed that. | |
| Sep 30, 2013 at 2:13 | comment | added | dcaswell | @john There's an obvious consensus. There's even an explanation that proves why the consensus is correct. For B, nothing is suggested. For C, they do not consider the possibility of a 3rd gender. The words "nothing" and "do not" are very clear. | |
| Sep 30, 2013 at 2:03 | comment | added | dcaswell | @John It's a McGraw Hill book that covers the basics and one that most people agree is filled with errors. Read the reviews on Amazon. | |
| Sep 30, 2013 at 2:02 | comment | added | Giambattista | @user814064 I'm suggesting that a college graduate preparing for a grad school entrance exam (akaGRE), might be operating with a different set of vocabulary than what is common to the average person. And GREs are tailored by subject, so if this is in English or Social Science I may be correct. And I've taken GREs, I have an advanced degree, so I do know what they are about. The discipline that this person is being tested on is not mentioned. | |
| Sep 30, 2013 at 1:55 | comment | added | dcaswell | @John The question is straight-forward. In fact there's an explanation in the OP. The GRE isn't about what you seem to think it's about. You don't need a class to understand the questions. | |
| Sep 30, 2013 at 0:27 | comment | added | Giambattista | Everyone here could use a course in gender studies. I took one 10 years ago in college, and they theory was the same then. It's been greatly expanded since. | |
| Sep 30, 2013 at 0:26 | comment | added | Giambattista | @Jim no that is not a typo. | |
| Sep 29, 2013 at 14:33 | comment | added | Tim Lymington | @Jim: because as Noah et al commented above, a gender binary is not the same as a binary gender. Looks like you were applying common sense/normal usage rules to GRE; a foolish error. | |
| Sep 29, 2013 at 11:12 | history | edited | Talia Ford | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 29, 2013 at 7:08 | comment | added | Talia Ford | Another thing that adds weight to my argument is the fact that, throughout the entire text, it can be felt that they are relating one entire society with its norms—to another society with its own norms. ("Western culture, yet", "earliest", "established", "no equivalent"!) The relation is one of nonequivalence. That's what makes the entire text a hot topic. Da difference. | |
| Sep 29, 2013 at 6:52 | comment | added | Talia Ford | Yes. But, of course, none of us can be sure. I was just proving that my hypothesis is as sound as the other one. How do I explain it? Read my post once again. | |
| Sep 29, 2013 at 6:49 | comment | added | Jim | Are you saying that there is not even a typo in answer C?? How do you explain that in the face of the first sentence of the paragraph: "The male/female gender binary dominates Western culture" | |
| Sep 29, 2013 at 6:46 | history | edited | Talia Ford | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 29, 2013 at 6:34 | history | answered | Talia Ford | CC BY-SA 3.0 |