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Wednesday, Jul 29 2015

@.hopkins: In your interpretation, the answer choice is attacking a premise of the argument. Isn't that suspect? Should I be expected to have enough "common sense" to know that computer experts' expertise doesn't support their claim on "the most significant threat faced by large institutions?"

@.janson35: In this question there is only one hospital executive, hence the plural possessive pronoun "their" can only refer to the experts.

http://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-june-2007-section-2-question-17/

The correct answer choice is B: "[t]he argument relies on the testimony of experts whose expertise is not shown to be sufficiently broad to support THEIR general claim."

I think this choice would only be correct if the "THEIR," the "experts" I assume being the referent, is changed to "its," the argument being the referent, because it is the hospital executive who's making a claim beyond the scope of the testimony of these experts.

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Thursday, Sep 25 2014

Ah, thanks for reminding. I haven't quite gotten that far yet in the PTs to see the change LSAC made, even though I've heard of it already.

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Monday, Aug 24 2015

We probably should BR our RC by printing out a clean section and redoing it without time constraint. Currently I'm only rereading without time constraint and reviewing questions that I've circled.

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Monday, Aug 24 2015

B points out that, in the absence of the factor identified by the argument as the cause, there's also an absence of the effect. This is a standard way of strengthening a causal argument.

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Wednesday, Sep 24 2014

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Page Space Rationing

I'm wondering if Mr. Ping has any good pointers on how to ration the space on the page, especially when dealing with questions that may require copying down the game board several times to test the options. Usually I'd just write down the game board once and then write lightly enough when filling it out with the different sets of elements, so that the markings can be erased easily with one single stroke of the eraser before I need to fill in the other set.

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