I chose E because of two reasons.

• The author starts the paragraph by saying "Seymour Drescher provides a more balanced view," but then he gets down to the shortcomings of Drescher's view. To me, it felt like he was ultimately saying, "Drescher at first seems to provide a view that is convincing, but it's flawed." So I thought "superficially convincing" was the answer.

• The author says Eltis eschews "Drescher's idealization," which to me felt like the author was saying Eltis avoids Drescher's "unrealistic" explanation. So the "unrealistic" part seemed like it belonged to Eltis instead of the author.

I know I'm not supposed to challenge and fight the right answer choices on LSAT, but this felt really tricky.

I really hate the answer choice E because it makes me feel like I have make many unsupported assumptions for it to work as an answer.

The way I saw this is that just because there exists considerable controversy about how powerful Superman is, it doesn't mean Superman has very little power.

So just because there exists considerable controversy about the reliability of DNA tests doesn't mean their reliability is at rock bottom.

@nmashoudy I saw from one of the Foundations lessons that the word "may" saps "if" of any sufficiency-necessity power. So for this question, I completely ignored any conditional indicator in that sentence and assumed that sentence was basically offering an example and confirming that, regardless of whatever an administration does (e.g., not caring for the environment), it will be overall successful if it is successful at both the economy and protecting individual liberties.

Unbelievable, they just straight up turned "experiment" into a living person in the answer choices.

Just wanted to say thanks for posting this because I was also confused about not seeing the clock but was scared to ask!

@Krender You're not the only one! I assumed Question 6 was an argument, a really poorly formed one, so I ended up flagging it as one.

Me: I do see that there is a bit of sufficiency and necessity confusion at the very last minute when they changed from "elected officials should resign only if they are convicted of a crime" to "they should resign if convicted." But surely they couldn't have pulled a sneaky on me. Obviously, the flaw is the unrepresentative sample.

LSAT: I pulled a sneaky on you.

Extremely evil of them to have all those details about Legrand, Medina and Norton when they ultimately do not matter.

I was staring at this problem, wondering why D is the right answer. Then I realized the "free installation" part threw me off. I thought it was referring to the customers getting the software for free, and installing it themselves. This means more work and complexity, which ultimately supports the author's conclusion. But what they meant by "free installation" was someone coming to install and set things up for them.

And then I saw that PT 118 was administered in October 2000 and December 2004. >:(

The multiple sandwiching of the views made this question's answer choices difficult to digest.

For example, for answer choice D, "It is incorrect because it makes no distinction between reality and fantasy," it is saying "Dostoyevsky would most likely have agreed with [the ["It is incorrect because it makes no distinction between reality and fantasy"] statement held by some Russian Critics [that art should stand high above the present and every day.]]. So in a hurry, I misread it as Dostoyevsky criticizing some Russian critics because he believes art has no distinction between reality and fantasy, and chose D. 🤦

I am so silly. The MMPA of 1972 continued the prohibition and introduced an exemption. So there could not have been an exemption before 1972, and Alaska Natives could not have hunted sea otters between 1920 and 1972. But I misread answer choice A and thought, "That's obviously wrong. While Alaska Natives were prohibited from hunting sea otters, they did have an exemption."

"so many other pets: cats, rabbits, hamsters, fish, reptiles, etc." This is bird erasure

Wow I'm being humbled so much in this section.

Feeling discouraged because this section has been wrecking me in particular while most of the comment section seemed to have breezed through it. I understand the explanation videos and get the process. But on my own, everything feels so murky and questionable, and it takes way too long for me to get the clarity needed to solve the questions.

I got so caught up in the fact that they tried to compare a 40-ton stone with a 9-ton stone, and I tried to find an answer that points it out. Sigh