LSAT 105 – Section 4 – Question 12

LSAT 105 - Section 4 - Question 12

February 1999

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
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PT105 S4 Q12
+LR
Most strongly supported +MSS
Principle +Princ
A
90%
166
B
1%
154
C
4%
159
D
2%
158
E
4%
158
131
141
152
 +Easier 144.839 +SubsectionEasier

Nearly everyone has complained of a mistaken utility bill that cannot easily be corrected or of computer files that cannot readily be retrieved. Yet few people today would tolerate waiting in long lines while clerks search for information that can now be found in seconds, and almost no one who has used a word processor would return to a typewriter.

Summary
People have some common complaints about computers: it can be hard to correct mistakes with digital bills, and sometimes computer files get lost. On the other hand, people are really attached to some benefits of computers, like ultra-speedy searches, or the convenience of word processors over typewriters.

Strongly Supported Conclusions
The stimulus conforms to the following principles:
Sometimes, people’s complaints about a particular technology are outweighed by the benefits of that technology.
People may be unwilling to give up a particular technology even though they have some complaints about it.
The same technology can have both drawbacks and benefits.

A
The fact that people complain about some consequences of technology cannot be taken as a reliable indication that they would choose to live without it.
This is strongly supported. In the stimulus, we see that people complain about computers, but even so, they would not want to live without computers. In other words, people’s complaints do not indicate that they would choose to live without computer technology.
B
If people do not complain about some technology, then it is probably not a significant factor in their daily lives.
This is not supported. The stimulus never indicates a link between complaining about a technology and that technology being significant to people’s daily lives. Our only example is computers, which people do complain about, so that’s not useful here.
C
The degree to which technologies elicit complaints from people is always an accurate measure of the extent to which people have become dependent on them.
This is not supported. We only know about one single technology, computers—that’s definitely not enough to say whether complaints are “always” an accurate measure of dependency.
D
The complaints people make about technological innovations are more reliable evidence of the importance of those innovations than the choices people actually make.
This is not supported. The stimulus doesn’t indicate that either people’s complaints or their choices can be used as evidence of a technology’s importance. In fact, the stimulus doesn’t mention how to determine a technology’s importance at all.
E
The less willing people are to do without technology the more likely they are to complain about the effects of technology.
This is not supported. The stimulus only offers information about computers, one single type of technology. That doesn’t give us enough information to support a principle about technology in general.

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