LSAT 151 – Section 2 – Question 06

LSAT 151 - Section 2 - Question 06

September 2018

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT151 S2 Q06
+LR
Miscellaneous +Misc
Most strongly supported +MSS
Link Assumption +LinkA
A
2%
152
B
86%
162
C
6%
156
D
4%
149
E
3%
154
133
142
152
 +Medium 147.144 +SubsectionMedium

Michaela: I think doctors who complain about patients doing medical research on the Internet are being a little unfair. It seems only natural that a patient would want to know as much as possible about his or her condition.

Sam: It is not unfair. Doctors have undergone years of training. How can you maintain that a doctor’s opinion is not worth more than something an untrained person comes up with after searching the Internet?

Summary

In response to Michaela’s claim that doctors are being unfair when complaining about patients doing their own medical research, Sam states that these doctors are not being unfair because doctors have years of training. Sam asks how Michaela can believe a doctor’s opinion is not worth more than an untrained person.

Strongly Supported Conclusions

The opinions of untrained patients are worth just as much as a doctor’s opinion.

A
health information found on the Internet is trustworthy

This answer is unsupported. Sam does not make a judgment call whether this information is in fact trustworthy or not.

B
the opinion of a patient who has done Internet research on his or her condition should have at least as much weight as the opinion of a doctor

This answer is strongly supported. Sam asks Michaela how she can maintain that a doctor’s opinion is not worth more than that of an untrained person.

C
the opinion of a patient’s own doctor should not be given more weight than the opinions of doctors published on websites

This answer is unsupported. The stimulus does not give us any information allowing us to make comparisons between doctors. We only have information to compare the opinions of doctors and untrained persons.

D
a doctor’s explanation of a patient’s symptoms should be taken more seriously than the patient’s own view of his or her symptoms

This answer is unsupported. Sam’s response indicates she believes a patient’s opinions should not hold as much weight as that of a doctor’s, not that doctor’s opinions should be taken more seriously.

E
patients who do not research their conditions on the Internet give their doctors’ opinions more consideration

This answer is unsupported. We don’t know from the stimulus what type of patients take their doctor’s opinions more seriously.

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Section 2 - Logical Reasoning

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