@Kevin_Lin

First cool thing is that I got my question answered. Second, and most cool, I got my question answered by Kevin, wayyyyy cool. Thank you sir! I really appreciate it, and it makes total sense.

I got this question correctly. As I listened to Kevin's explain it, I completely agreed with him that the part that points out the hypocrisy of the competitor is an (ad hominem) attack. But, I am wondering if it can be said that this argument has multiple flaws. Because I also thought that the part that says: "Their allegations, however, have not been proved" if viewed as a defense, seem like "Lack of support vs. False conclusion (Assuming that because something hasn't been proven true, that it must be false)" flaw.

The toy manufacturer seems to be saying " It has not been proved that our toys hurt children, so your argument that we should remove our toys because they hurt several children is not valid "False".

I understand that is not really that important, because the second attack is clearly an ad hominem attack, and it matches D very well. I am just curious

Listening to the explanation, and reading some of the comments, I think that I understand what threw me off, and it may be the case for others.

What confuses me about this question is the word BELIEVE. I think that its is true that MOST people can BELIEVE that they sleep more than most other people. It is possible that INDIVIDUALS can have this BELIEVE.

HOWEVER, in reality, SOME of the people are going to be wrong. I said to myself: "sure MOST people can be operating under this assumption because in reality, they don't have any data to disprove / prove their believes."

This question requires that we focus on the reality that MOST people can't in fact sleep less than MOST people. Some will be wrong in their believe.

If this question had said:

Most people are CERTAIN that they sleep less than other people, I would have immediately have thought: "now wait a minute, Most people can't sleep less than Most people"

But when I read this, I thought to myself: "Sure, most people in this study can be walking around believing that they sleep less than everyone else, you can believe anything that you want." It is true of the real world, if you take a group of runners that don't actually know each other, at the beginning (forming stage), most of them may believe that they are among the fastest runner in the group, but some of them will be wrong. In actuality, some of them will be wrong, but they won't know they are wrong until they come into the finish line in the bottom half of the group.

I got this question wrong because I misunderstood the question itself. The previous question was about the LC. When I read this question, and it said : "other nineteenth-century women writers", I assumed that it was asking what did she adopt from the NW writers ? (for me, trap word was OTHER). I knew that she had adopted the detached scientific like approach from the LC, but I ignored that because I thought that it was asking about the NW.

Hummhh! LSAT writers make the test more difficult because they are frustrated? Me: Dude, chill, I will get you a coffee!

I chose b, and I was wrong. In protest, I am just going to refuse to like this Barbu fella.

I picked C. The way I interpreted it was very similar to what B was saying. An effect (back pain) that occurs in the absence of a particular phenomenon (slipped disk) might not occur when that phenomenon is present. In other words: back pain may not occur when a slipped disk is present. To me, it was a very hard choice between B and C, because the way I interpreted it seemed to say almost the same thing to me.

where I am having trouble is in figuring out where the sufficiency indicator is on the stimulus.