LSAT 126 – Section 1 – Question 23

LSAT 126 - Section 1 - Question 23

October 2008

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
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PT126 S1 Q23
+LR
Strengthen +Streng
Sampling +Smpl
A
16%
160
B
72%
164
C
7%
157
D
4%
159
E
1%
155
139
151
164
 +Medium 146.126 +SubsectionMedium

A professor of business placed a case-study assignment for her class on her university’s computer network. She later found out that instead of reading the assignment on the computer screen, 50 out of the 70 students printed it out on paper. Thus, it is not the case that books delivered via computer will make printed books obsolete.

Summarize Argument
The availability of online books won't make printed versions unnecessary. This is demonstrated by the fact that in a class, most students chose to print an assignment sheet instead of reading it online, where it was originally made available.

Notable Assumptions
The author makes a conclusion about books from premises about an assignment—in other words, the author assumes that there are enough similarities between books and assignments to draw a conclusion. A good answer choice will help bridge this gap. Additionally, the author assumes that the observed occurrence in an academic setting is generalizable.

A
Several colleagues of the professor have found that, in their non-business courses, several of their students behave similarly in relation to assignments placed on the computer network.
While this answer choice strengthens the evidence, it fails to support the relationship between the premise and conclusion (i.e., the argument). The author makes a jump from a premise about an assignment to a conclusion about books—this doesn’t fill that gap.
B
Studies consistently show that most computer users will print reading material that is more than a few pages in length rather than read it on the computer screen.
This strengthens the argument by substantiating the author’s assumption that students will print out books in addition to assignments. (B) says after a certain length people will print the reading material, strengthening the relationship between the premise and conclusion.
C
Some people get impaired vision from long periods of reading printed matter on computer screens, even if they use high quality computer screens.
This does not affect the argument. The word “some” could mean just one or two people—one person having vision issues due to computer screens doesn’t affect our argument at all.
D
Scanning technology is very poor, causing books delivered via computer to be full of errors unless editors carefully read the scanned versions.
This does not affect the argument. While it may be true that online books would be full of errors if they are not carefully read through, there is no reason for us to believe that they aren’t carefully read through every time.
E
Books on cassette tape have only a small fraction of the sales of printed versions of the same books, though sales of videos of books that have been turned into movies remain strong.
This does not affect the argument. The relative popularity between books on cassette tape and their printed version tells us nothing about the relationship between books delivered via computer and their printed versions.

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