LSAT 104 – Section 4 – Question 18

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December 1998

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Question QuickView	Type	Tags	Answer Choices	Curve This gives you an idea of how this question is “curved”— in other words, what level of scorer is likely to get this question right. It shows a model of scaled LSAT score vs probability of getting the question correct. It is based on student test results for each question. The gray bar extends from the score for a 25% chance, to the score for a 75% chance of getting the question correct. The black line in the middle is the score for a 50% chance of getting the question correct. The percentage at the right is the expected chance of someone with the same score as you on that PrepTest getting that question correct	Question Difficulty	Psg/Game/S Difficulty	Explanation
PT104 S4 Q18	+LR	Weaken +Weak Link Assumption +LinkA	A 4% 162 B 56% 170 C 25% 166 D 4% 161 E 10% 167	151 165 179	+Hardest	147.438 +SubsectionMedium

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Book publishers have traditionally published a few books that they thought were of intrinsic merit even though these books were unlikely to make a profit. Nowadays, however, fewer of these books are being published. It seems, therefore, that publishers now, more than ever, are more interested in making money than in publishing books of intrinsic value.

Summarize Argument: Phenomenon-Hypothesis

The author hypothesizes that today, more than in the past, publishers are even more interested in making money than in publishing books demonstrating intrinsic merit. This is because there’s been a decline in the number of books of intrinsic merit that are published.

Notable Assumptions

There’s no other explanation for the decline in the number of books of intrinsic merit being published aside from an increase in the publishers’ interest in making money.

Book publishers have always been very interested in making money.

The author never denied that publishers were very interested in making money in the past. The author’s point is just that their desire for money has increased.

There has been a notable decline in the quality of books written in recent years.

This provides an alternate explanation for the decline in publication of books of intrinsic merits. If there’s been a decline in the quality of books written, that could reasonably mean there are fewer books of intrinsic merit available for publication.

In the past, often books of intrinsic value would unexpectedly make a sizable profit.

If the profits were “unexpected,” the publishers didn’t know which books of intrinsic merit would lead to profits. So, we can’t read (C) as suggesting that the past publication of books of intrinsic merit was due to a desire to make profit.

There have always been authors unwilling to be published unless a profit is guaranteed.

This answer doesn’t suggest any reason to think there’s been an increase in the number of authors unwilling to publish. So, this doesn’t explain a decrease in the number of books of intrinsic merit being published.

In recent years, profits in the book publishing industry have been declining.

This doesn’t provide an alternate explanation for a decline in the publication of books of intrinsic merit. If anything, it could support the author’s theory by suggesting that declining profits might have lead publishers to become more competitve and more concerned about money.

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