LSAT 121 – Section 4 – Question 23

LSAT 121 - Section 4 - Question 23

December 2005

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT121 S4 Q23
+LR
Except +Exc
Weaken +Weak
Causal Reasoning +CausR
A
41%
161
B
4%
158
C
3%
157
D
44%
166
E
8%
162
157
166
176
 +Hardest 146.544 +SubsectionMedium

Company president: Our consultants report that, in general, the most efficient managers have excellent time management skills. Thus, to improve productivity I recommend that we make available to our middle-level managers a seminar to train them in techniques of time management.

Summarize Argument: Phenomenon-Hypothesis
The author recommends that we make available to middle-level managers a time management training seminar in order to improve their productivity. This is based on a report by consultants that the most efficient managers have excellent time management skills.

Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that excellent time management skills is the cause of the most efficient managers’ level of efficiency. The author assumes that there isn’t some other explanation for the association between efficiency and time management skills observed in managers.

A
The consultants use the same criteria to evaluate managers’ efficiency as they do to evaluate their time management skills.
(A) suggests that the purported correlation between efficiency and time management among managers doesn’t actually measure a meaningful relationship. The consultants aren’t measuring the connection between two different qualities.
B
Successful time management is more dependent on motivation than on good technique.
This provides a reason to think a seminar training managers on time management techniques is less likely to be successful.
C
Most managers at other companies who have attended time management seminars are still unproductive.
This provides a reason to think attendance at time management seminars is less likely to have a significant impact on productivity.
D
Most managers who are already efficient do not need to improve their productivity.
The author recommends that we make a seminar available. If some managers don’t need it, they don’t have to attend. (D) doesn’t provide a reason to think the seminars might not be effective, nor does it criticize the reported association between efficiency and time management.
E
Most managers who are efficient have never attended a time management seminar.
This provides a reason to think time management training seminars are not going to be as helpful as the author believes.

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