PT2.S2.Q24 - There is little point in looking to artists...

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  akistotle Member ⭐ 🍌🍌

  October 2017 edited October 2017 9382 karma

  You are right that all the other ACs are obviously wrong, but I can't figure out how (E) must be true either.

  I feel like this question implies that:
  Most of X are Y = Some of X are not Y.

  But most includes all....I guess the word "rarely" in the last sentence may be the key. It implies that artistic talent and political insight are sometimes found together. If anything, I think this question should be an MSS question.

  This is interesting, so I would like to hear what @"Cant Get Right" thinks! (or @"J.Y. Ping" even...!)

  This test is from the final year of the Cold War....so it's very, very old.
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  Cant Get Right Yearly + Live Member Sage ⭐ 🍌 7Sage Tutor

  October 2017 27899 karma

  Yeah, it's definitely the "rarely." This is a clever construction. They set us up with a bias so that we mistake what the last line actually says. Read "rarely" as a "some" statement that's excluding the "most" range. If I tell you that my dog rarely bites people, you're going to infer some overlap with "my dog" and "bites people." In that example, it's the exact same thing except your bias is primed to make the overlap rather than to ignore it. It works the same way though.
• hihihi9993 Member

  October 2017 347 karma

  @akistotle @"Cant Get Right" Thank you both!
• Clemens_ Live Member

  April 2023 299 karma

  Note to self: "Most" on the LSAT includes the possibility of "All." The "rarely" in this question thus must mean "sometimes."