LSAT 143 – Section 1 – Question 17

LSAT 143 - Section 1 - Question 17

June 2015

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT143 S1 Q17
+LR
Most strongly supported +MSS
Causal Reasoning +CausR
A
3%
160
B
15%
160
C
6%
158
D
71%
165
E
5%
159
145
155
164
 +Harder 148.401 +SubsectionMedium

Critics worry that pessimistic news reports about the economy harm it by causing people to lose confidence in the economy, of which everyone has direct experience every day. Journalists respond that to do their jobs well they cannot worry about the effects of their work. Also, studies show that people do not defer to journalists except on matters of which they have no direct experience.

Summary
Although critics worry that pessimistic news reports about the economy cause people to lose confidence in the economy, studies show that, on matters on which people have direct experience, they don’t defer to journalists. People have direct experience with the economy.

Strongly Supported Conclusions
People don’t defer to journalists regarding the economy.
Critics don’t need to be worried that pessimistic news reports will influence people’s feelings about the economy.

A
Critics who think that the economy is affected by the extent of people’s confidence in it are wrong.
Unsupported. The issue is whether news about the economy affects people’s perceptions. We don’t know anything about whether people’s perceptions affect the economy.
B
Pessimistic news reports about such matters as foreign policy, of which people do not have experience every day, are likely to have a negative impact.
Unsupported. Although it’s possible people defer to journalists on foreign policy, there’s no support for characterizing the effect of that deference as negative. Being influenced by news reports is not inherently negative.
C
Pessimistic news reports about the state of the economy are likely to harm the economy.
Unsupported. We know people don’t defer to journalists on the economy. So, there’s no evidence news reports will harm the economy by making people lose confidence in it. In theory the news could hurt the economy through some other means, but the stimulus doesn’t speak to that.
D
News reports about the economy are unlikely to have a significant effect on people’s opinions about the state of the economy.
Strongly supported. We know that on matters on which they have direct experience, people don’t defer to journalists. And we’re told people have direct experience with the economy. So, they don’t defer to journalists on the economy.
E
Journalists need not be deeply concerned about their reporting’s effects on the well-being of the average citizen.
Unsupported. The stimulus indicates people are unlikely to defer to journalists on the economy. But journalists might have an impact on people regarding other topics. We have no basis to say journalists shouldn’t be concerned about potential effects regarding other topics.

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