While I understand why B is a good answer, it seems plausible that D could also be correct. If you have more people concentrating on obtaining those results, wouldn't that make it statistically more probably that someone would have chanced upon Otto Hahn's discovery of barium even sooner, thereby prompting theoretical physicists to make the connection to their own theories?

#feedback the explanation for question 12 is wrong! He misreads the question. It asks what is the underlying argument in both passages, but he only deals with it in respect to passage B.

I'm curious-if B was not an option in this question, would it be reasonable to choose E as the correct answer? My thought process is that while E requires us to make an unwarranted assumption, if the assumption were true, it would be aided by the information in the stimulus in a way that A, C and D aren't. It seems to be a better choice, even if it is not as good as B.

Obviously, this reasoning wouldn't cause me issues on this specific question since I still would have chosen B, but I'm just curious if this reasoning will help me or get me into trouble on other questions on the LSAT.

I thought C went too far, that it was not strictly necessary because helping with learning a languages does not mean that one has succeeded in having fully learned a language. If mastering the grammatical structure merely implied that one had more fully understood the language, it would seem strictly necessary, but idk I guess language is an ongoing process and the whole concept of having learned a language is a bit murky to begin with.

Ok here's why I didn't think C was right. The stimulus doesn't say we shouldn't be surprised that the clergy exagerrate all people's religious devotion. Perhaps the clergy had a motivation for specifically emphasizing the peasants devotion. Perhaps they had a worldview that the humility of the poor made them specially chosen by God, and therefore had a reason to consciously or subconsciously to depict poor people as more religious. With this possibility in mind, C seems to be on bar with A in terms of being the best answer choice.

Does that arrow intentionally look like the thing that it looks like???

The word surely threw me off. I tried looking for an answer that was tentative in its claims. None of them really were, but D seemed slightly tentative so I chose it. Maybe I should have ignored that aspect of the stimulus once I realized it didn't clearly distinguish between the answers.

Anyone else read this and immediately identify the context of the argument? lmao