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Tuesday, May 30 2017

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Thursday, Jan 19 2017

Thanks for the correction and guidance. I have amended the discussion thread.

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Thursday, Jan 19 2017

My apologies. I'll correct it right away!

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Thursday, Jan 19 2017

Take my explanation with little clout, since I am a novice.

I think you are correct. Here's why. The negation of a statement is equivalent to the logical opposite. Since the word "some" in the LSAT world means at least one, possibly all, the logical opposite of at least one is: none. Since the word "most" in the LSAT world means something greater than 50%, possibly all, the logical opposite would be: something less than 50%, which would naturally include anything from 0-50%.

I'm hoping that someone might be willing to check my thinking/analysis before I go to the explanation. It has been suggested that if we write out an explanation for our thought process that it helps to solidify our learning. This is my attempt to follow that suggestion. Also, could someone tell me if it's advisable or not to attempt to do what I've done prior to viewing the video explanation, or am I complicating things too much? Should I just skip all this work and go right to the video explanation first?

PT 38.1.19

Answer selected during test: (E)

Answer selected during BR: (A)

Correct answer: (C)

Notes:

Since it has been a few days since I took the test and performed my BR, my original thinking is somewhat fuzzy. However, I think the reason I selected E on the test was because I thought that if people only deserve happiness according to the happiness the provide others, then a truly bad person couldn’t deserve happiness because they don’t bring happiness to others.

I think I selected answer choice A on the BR because I was thinking there was a disconnect between the idea that we only value the happiness that is deserved and that we only deserve happiness according to the happiness we provide to others.

Now, how did I miss answer choice C? I think the reason that I missed the correct answer and selected wrong answers twice is because I wasn’t appropriately identifying with the argument. In the first place, I wasn’t looking for a conclusion. I was just looking for a statement that “fit”. I see now that the word “therefore” indicated that I was to be looking for a logical conclusion that appropriately rested on the premises. Also, the question stem indicates that I need to complete the “argument”. Since an argument is a premise + conclusion, and since there is no conclusion in the stimulus, I needed to identify the proper conclusion. I think I wasn’t appropriately identifying the premises in the argument; all of the extraneous statements boggled me a bit. So without the proper understanding of the premises, it’s understandable that I wouldn’t be able to identify the conclusion. I’m still struggling to clearly identify the premise (in fact, I think there is only one), but here’s what I think it is:

P: The happiness people deserve is determined by the amount of happiness they bring to others.

Which would then couple with the proper conclusion:

C: The judgment that a person deserves to be happy is itself to be understood in terms of happiness.

So, if I understand this problem now, the reason I selected the two wrong answers is the same reason I missed the right answer: I didn’t properly identify the premise in the argument.

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-38-section-1-question-19/

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jim491
Wednesday, Jun 07 2017

Hi there!

The stimulus doesn't actually contain an argument, nor a conclusion, but rather, a set of facts.

Since the question type is a MSS, our job is to identify the answer choice that is most supported by the facts contained in the stimulus. Remember that the level of proof with a MSS question is not as high as a MBT. If the question stem asked you to identify what Must Be True given the information in the stimulus, then you are correct in your assertion that there is no way to guarantee the outcome cited in answer choice A. But, our job isn't to make an inference; our job is to support one of the answer choices.

The way I understand the stimulus is that the US is far behind Canada and Sweden in "workplace safety", not in workplace safety regulations. Those US companies that have used joint labor-management committees to oversee workplace safety conditions, have successfully reduced workplace injuries. But, since US companies have not had a widespread adoption of these committees, the US has not been as successful in reducing workplace injuries as those countries who use those committees extensively, such as Sweden and Canada who are required to use those committees for all medium-sized and large workplaces.

Since there has been a successful reduction in workplace injuries in the limited US companies that use these committees, wouldn't it stand to reason that if all medium-sized and large US companies similarly used such committees (whether on a volunteer or mandatory basis), there would be even a greater reduction in occupational injuries? This is what Answer Choice A states.

Given the information in the stimulus, we simply have no way of knowing whether or not these committees were used voluntarily in Sweden and Canada prior to the law that required their use. Perhaps the government required the use of such committees from the beginning.

I sure hope this helps. If not, please let me know and I'll see if I can take another stab at it. :-)

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