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Thank you We sneak in and here's her shmoop du

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jour brought to you by inference because sometimes you really

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can judge a book by its cover I checked the

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following passage Find important blythe appears in your life that

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china all right which of the following quotations does not

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support the idea that holmes has a talent for reading

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people Nonsupport talent not doing are the answer choices All

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right now this is a trixie little question because sherlock

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pseudo modesty belies his very impressive skill Let's rule out

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the easy answers First the fact that sherlock holmes has

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a quick eye pretty clearly indicates he has a talent

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for reading people So this line definitely does not not

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support that idea Yeah double negatives told you this was

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trixie and answer d watson has taken a stab at

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reading people himself he's doing so after the fashion of

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his companion which indicates this is something holmes is already

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good at Although it's probably best if watson doesn't imitate

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all of homes fashions anyway d isn't correct now this

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answer choice might throw you because it seems like holmes

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is admitting that he isn't able to deduce anything beyond

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the obvious But if we look at what's being cut

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off by the ellipse ese like that we might notice

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that what holmes considers obvious could fill an encyclopedia there's

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a reason we needed those dots The dialogue and be

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actually shows that holmes is incredibly talented at reading people

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so that answer is not correct either So let's consider

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answer c in this line a text watson is again

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attempting to read people allah sherlock holmes he's attempting to

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make close observations Unfortunately he's not quite as gifted at

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inference and deduction is his buddy So all that this

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quote is showing us is that watson isn't great at

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reading people It doesn't say anything about holmes ability so

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c is the correct answer See what a little inference

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khun do although you probably didn't need to read the

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book to figure it out Yeah good book got the 00:02:04.275 --> [endTime] ending like scratch and sniff

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