LSAT 113 – Section 2 – Question 18

LSAT 113 - Section 2 - Question 18

June 2002

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT113 S2 Q18
+LR
Most strongly supported +MSS
Principle +Princ
Rule-Application +RuleApp
Net Effect +NetEff
A
68%
161
B
3%
155
C
22%
156
D
3%
153
E
4%
158
136
149
163
 +Medium 147.106 +SubsectionMedium

Some critics of space exploration programs claim that they are too costly to be justified. Moreover, there is the very real risk of a debilitating explosion—most experts say something like a 1-in-70 chance per flight. Budgetary pressures to make the programs cheaper only serve to undermine safety: one program’s managers uncovered a series of manufacturing flaws that critics contend are a direct consequence of the pressure to produce results as quickly and cheaply as possible.

Summary
Some people say space exploration programs are too costly to be justified. Most experts say there is a real risk of explosion every flight. Efforts to make the programs cheaper undercut safety. For example, one program had several manufacturing flaws, and critics say these were a result of pressures to cut costs.

Strongly Supported Conclusions
Reducing cost for each space flight may lead to another problem of making each flight more dangerous.

A
Attempts to solve one problem can lead to the exacerbation of another problem.
This is strongly supported because the stimulus presents evidence that making a space flight as quickly and cheaply as possible (solving one problem) led to manufacturing flaws (exacerbating another problem).
B
Safety risks are sometimes ignored in the name of scientific progress.
This is unsupported because safety risks are happening due to a desire to cut costs, not a desire to enhance scientific progress.
C
Safety is often sacrificed in order to reach a goal as quickly as possible.
This is unsupported because we don’t know how often these safety sacrifices happen overall. We only know that it can happen.
D
Bureaucratic mistakes can lead to quality reduction and inefficiency.
This is unsupported because we don’t know that any of the reductions in safety happened due to bureaucratic mistakes. They may have happened without mistake simply due to pressures to cut costs.
E
Space exploration is too dangerous to be continued.
This is unsupported because we don’t know at what level of danger space exploration should no longer occur. This is not a value statement that was explored in the stimulus.

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