LSAT 117 – Section 4 – Question 05

LSAT 117 - Section 4 - Question 05

October 2004

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Barr: The National Tea Association cites tea’s recent visibility in advertising and magazine articles as evidence of tea’s increasing popularity. However, a neutral polling company, the Survey Group, has tracked tea sales at numerous stores for the last 20 years and has found no change in the amount of tea sold. We can thus conclude that tea is no more popular now than it ever was.

Summarize Argument
Barr concludes that tea is not more popular now than in previous years. As support, he references the fact that the Survey Group, a neutral polling company, found no change in the amount of tea sold over the past 20 years.

Notable Assumptions
Barr assumes that the survey conducted by the Survey Group was conducted with a representative sample that was large enough to produce generalizable results. Barr also assumes that the survey was high quality, and not conducted in a way that would bias the results.

A
The National Tea Association has announced that it plans to carry out its own retail survey in the next year.
The fact that the National Tea Association plans to do its own study does nothing to cast doubt on the validity of the Survey Group’s study; this is irrelevant to Barr’s argument.
B
A survey by an unrelated polling organization shows that the public is generally receptive to the idea of trying new types of tea.
Barr’s argument is about whether or not tea is more popular; the public’s willingness to try new types of tea is irrelevant to how popular tea is in general.
C
The Survey Group is funded by a consortium of consumer advocacy groups.
(C) doesn’t provide any information about how the survey was actually conducted, so it doesn’t weaken the argument.
D
The stores from which the Survey Group collected information about tea sales are all located in the same small region of the country.
This weakens the argument because it shows that the survey wasn’t representative. If all of the stores were from the same small region of the country, then we can only make a conclusion about that specific region; we can’t make broad, generalized conclusions.
E
Tea has been the subject of an expensive and efficient advertising campaign funded, in part, by the National Tea Association.
The argument is about whether or not tea is more popular now; we don’t care about factors that could have impacted the popularity of tea.

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