LSAT 105 – Section 2 – Question 09

LSAT 105 - Section 2 - Question 09

February 1999

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A
2%
156
B
5%
157
C
88%
166
D
2%
157
E
3%
154
130
141
153
 +Easier 145.978 +SubsectionMedium

Someone who gets sick from eating a meal will often develop a strong distaste for the one food in the meal that had the most distinctive flavor, whether or not that food caused the sickness. This phenomenon explains why children are especially likely to develop strong aversions to some foods.

Summarize Argument
The author concludes that children are especially likely to develop strong aversions to some foods. This is because people who get sick after eating a meal often develop an aversion to the strongest taste in the meal.

Notable Assumptions
In order for children to be especially likely to develop food aversions, the author assumes one of two things: that children are either especially likely to get sick after eating a meal, or that they’re especially likely to find certain tastes strong in a meal.

A
Children are more likely than adults to be given meals composed of foods lacking especially distinctive flavors.
This would weaken the author’s argument. Why would children be more likely to develop food aversions if their meals generally have less distinct flavors?
B
Children are less likely than adults to see a connection between their health and the foods they eat.
The author isn’t saying that people think the flavor will make them sick again. These aren’t voluntary aversions..
C
Children tend to have more acute taste and to become sick more often than adults do.
Children taste food stronger, and they become sick more often. Thus, the phenomenon the author describes applies more frequently to children than to adults. Hence why children are more likely to develop food aversions.
D
Children typically recover more slowly than adults do from sickness caused by food.
We don’t care how long recovery takes. We need to strengthen the connection between the hypothesis and the phenomenon.
E
Children are more likely than are adults to refuse to eat unfamiliar foods.
This is irrelevant. Any strong taste can factor into a food aversion.

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