Many types of analytic errors ensue when a Big Data resource is forced to respond to questions that it cannot possibly answer.
A definitive solution to this problem could possibly answer the question of whether Indo-Aryans encountered these people or whether Harappan civilization had passed by the time the Indo-Aryans arrived on the subcontinent, although scholars now generally agree that the Indus Valley civilization's decline was not due to any Indo-Aryan invasion.
In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there; I might possibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer.
The researchers began with fairly modest ambitions, hoping to compile statistical tables about links and possibly answer some fairly obscure questions of interest only to people building search engines.
But when we are in the pitch of grief — or, for that matter, in the full sunshine of joy — what form, what blank, what cause, whether final, immediate, or underlying, could possibly answer that question to anyone's satisfaction?
But, given the iBT response format used (multiple-choice glosses of the word or phrase in item), test takers who knew the word could possibly answer without even having to read the passage.
Marsha Norman raises more questions about critics than I could possibly answer, but I do want to play devil's advocate on a few points, speaking from my experience as a past Times drama critic.
To me, the answer is obviously (c): How can you possibly answer the question of which woman was more upset without knowing more about Janet, Susan, and the circumstances of their muggings?
As the show's final hovers over us like a gray cloud that happens to rain extraneous plot details, True Detective has left us with more questions than it can possibly answer.
