Carcass wrote:
The understanding that human mental
bandwidth is a finite and scarce resource could fundamentally change the way we think about poverty. Poverty imposes such a(n) (i)_____
cognitive load on the poor, a mental (ii)_____ akin to losing 13 IQ points, that they have
little bandwidth left over to do what might lift them out of poverty – like go to night school or search for a new job. Being poor means coping with not just the financial instability, but also with a concurrent (iii)_____ of cognitive resources.
Blank (i) |
Blank (ii) |
Blank (iii) |
massive |
hysteria |
shortfall |
ephemeral |
burden |
superfluity |
esoteric |
rhapsody |
surfeit |
Kudos for the right answer and solution.
Clue: put the 1st and 2nd blank with the clues above highlighted with same word respectively; and the 3rd one with the 3rd highlighted same word.
For example:
bandwidth is a finite and scarce resource goes with blank (i); --what is finite and scarce resource--massive
cognitive load goes to blank (ii); and ----something that is "loaded to us" means burden
little bandwidth left over goes to blank (iii); ----"left over" must be something that "short/less" which fails us from our desire.