LSAT 11 – Section 4 – Question 18
LSAT 11 - Section 4 - Question 18
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Type | Tags | Answer Choices |
Curve | Question Difficulty |
Psg/Game/S Difficulty |
Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT11 S4 Q18 |
+LR
| Strengthen +Streng | A
67%
166
B
5%
158
C
11%
161
D
13%
160
E
5%
160
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144 156 168 |
+Harder | 149.098 +SubsectionMedium |
We should recognize this as a strengthening question, since the stem states: Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the teacher’s argument?
Our stimulus takes the form of a dialogue between a student and teacher, and we are tasked with strengthening the teacher’s argument.
The teacher argues that journalists who don’t disclose the identity of their source stake their reputation on the ‘logic of anecdotes’. Basically, you judge their reporting, and consequently their reputation, on a similar basis to how you judge an anecdote. He supports this claim with some more specific information comparing anonymously sourced reports and anecdotes. It is necessary for an anonymous report to be published, and an anecdote to be good, that they be highly plausible, original, or interesting. The student responds by saying that if this were true, journalists wouldn’t need actual sources, since it wouldn’t be hard for a resourceful journalist to just invent plausible, original, or interesting stories. We want to support the Teacher’s claim that journalist stake their reputation on the logic of anecdotes when they use anonymous sources. On to the answer choices:
Correct Answer Choice (A) This connects our journalists premise about the requirements to be published with his conclusion about reputation.
Answer Choice (B) Our teacher’s argument is about anonymous sources; this isn’t relevant.
Answer Choice (C) This wouldn’t affect whether they get published, and hence whether the journalist stakes his reputation.
Answer Choice (D) This does nothing for us.
Answer Choice (E) We are interested in their reputation, and whether they stake it, not whether they are valued by their publishers.
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LSAT PrepTest 11 Explanations
Section 1 - Logic Games
Section 2 - Logical Reasoning
- Question 01
- Question 02
- Question 03
- Question 04
- Question 05
- Question 06
- Question 07
- Question 08
- Question 09
- Question 10
- Question 11
- Question 12
- Question 13
- Question 14
- Question 15
- Question 16
- Question 17
- Question 18
- Question 19
- Question 20
- Question 21
- Question 22
- Question 23
- Question 24
- Question 26
Section 3 - Reading Comprehension
- Passage 1 – Passage
- Passage 1 – Questions
- Passage 2 – Passage
- Passage 2 – Questions
- Passage 3 – Passage
- Passage 3 – Questions
- Passage 4 – Passage
- Passage 4 – Questions
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