LSAT 118 – Section 4 – Question 16

LSAT 118 - Section 4 - Question 16

December 2004

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT118 S4 Q16
+LR
Most strongly supported +MSS
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
Quantifier +Quant
A
5%
158
B
1%
155
C
16%
159
D
1%
160
E
77%
166
143
152
162
 +Medium 147.106 +SubsectionMedium

People are not happy unless they feel that they are needed by others. Most people in modern society, however, can achieve a feeling of indispensability only within the sphere of family and friendship, because almost everyone knows that his or her job could be done by any one of thousands of others.

Summary
To be happy, people need to feel that they are needed by others. Most people in modern society can only feel needed by others within family and friend relationships. Almost everyone knows that their job could be done by any one of thousands of others.

Strongly Supported Conclusions
Fewer than most people can find happiness outside of family and friend relationships.

A
People who realize that others could fill their occupational roles as ably as they do themselves cannot achieve any happiness in their lives.
This answer is unsupported. To say that these people cannot achieve “any” happiness is too strong. Moreover, it’s likely that the people who realize this fact are the same people who can only find happiness within family and friend relationships.
B
The nature of modern society actually undermines the importance of family life to an individual’s happiness.
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know anything about the nature of modern society from the stimulus.
C
Most people in modern society are happy in their private lives even if they are not happy in their jobs.
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know whether most people in modern society are in fact happy. We only know that most of these people can achieve happiness through family and friend relationships.
D
A majority of people in modern society do not appreciate having the jobs that they do have.
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know anything about what people do or do not appreciate from the stimulus.
E
Fewer than a majority of people in modern society can find happiness outside the sphere of private interpersonal relationships.
This answer is strongly supported. If most people in modern society can only achieve happiness through family and friend relationships, then some people in modern society can achieve happiness elsewhere. This statement is a logically opposite relationship from the stimulus.

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