dragn
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The study found that students in classrooms with unblocked views of at least 50 feet outside the window had higher scores on tests of vocabulary than did students whose classrooms primarily overlooked roads and parking lots.
What does the underlined part mean? Doesn't it also represent a position with unblocked views? |
There's no easy way to answer this question because the writing is neither clear nor precise, at least in my opinion. You are quite right: a view overlooking a road or a parking lot would almost certainly be an unblocked view of at least 50 feet. It's pretty hard to imagine it being otherwise, right?
The only way for me to make any sense of this is to interpret what I think the writer was actually trying to say in the given context. I think when he says "unblocked views of at least 50 feet" he apparently means views that are of something somewhat pleasant to look at: grass, flowers, trees, etc. Children playing happily with a puppy. Whatever. At least something more idyllic than smoke-belching vehicles on some busy street, or a boring sea of parked cars.
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