Hi Mark,

I'm always down to lend a hand and get some studying done myself. I've got a pretty good grip on the lsat conceptually, but particularly on the necessary qs and the reading portion.

I'm in the Riverside area (about 45min from LA) but am there almost every weekend studying. I'll email you to see if we can set something up.

Fidelio:

Here's my quick analysis as I am walking out of work. With main point questions, I always, before looking at the answer choices, ask myself "why the f*** should I care about this?!" I grew up in a household where cursing was the norm so please excuse my language. haha.

(Back to the point) As I read the stimulus, I too was quick to think that initial sentence may be the MP until I took a step back. In my mind, whenever "the reason for this" is written, I look at the context to see whether the author wanted me to know about the reason or about whatever was explained before. Here, the third sentence supports the third and the fourth supports the third. Once extrapolated, we can see that this sentence is indirectly in support of the second as well. That shows a whole bunch more of support for the second sentence than the first. The first sentence becomes part of the context, like if I said "I want to attend XYZ law school. This is because A, B, and C..." I'd want you to take away that I want to attend XYZ BECAUSE of A, B, and C, not simply that I want to attend XYZ. Consequently, it can only be inferred that what the author really wants us to take away from this is that this behavior is happening BECAUSE of some quirk in our brain.

As such, B is just a more solid answer than is A.

Like I said, this was really quick so let me know if this helps at all or if I can be of further assistance. Best of luck!