LSAT 111 – Section 1 – Question 04

LSAT 111 - Section 1 - Question 04

October 2001

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Question QuickView	Type	Tags	Answer Choices	Curve	Question Difficulty	Psg/Game/S Difficulty	Explanation
PT111 S1 Q04	+LR	Weaken +Weak Value Judgment +ValJudg	A 14% 161 B 7% 159 C 61% 166 D 19% 162 E 0% 167	144 158 173	+Harder	147.471 +SubsectionMedium

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Parent P: Children will need computer skills to deal with tomorrow’s world. Computers should be introduced in kindergarten, and computer languages should be required in high school.

Parent Q: That would be pointless. Technology advances so rapidly that the computers used by today’s kindergartners and the computer languages taught in today’s high schools would become obsolete by the time these children are adults.

Summarize Argument

Parent Q concludes that computers should not be introduced in kindergarten and taught throughout high school. Why? Because of technology’s rapid progress, which means particular devices and languages used by students will not be used when those children are adults.

Notable Assumptions

Parent Q assumes there’s no other reason that learning on today’s computers and with today’s languages would be useful to students, besides using those same devices and languages later in life.

When technology is advancing rapidly, regular training is necessary to keep one’s skills at a level proficient enough to deal with the society in which one lives.

This does not counter parent Q’s objection. It introduces regular training as a condition for adults to have computer skills, but doesn’t imply people will benefit from training as students.

Throughout history people have adapted to change, and there is no reason to believe that today’s children are not equally capable of adapting to technology as it advances.

This doesn’t say that learning about computers throughout school would be useful to students. Students’ ability to adapt does not itself justify their studying skills that will become obsolete in the future.

In the process of learning to work with any computer or computer language, children increase their ability to interact with computer technology.

This refutes parent Q’s assumption that learning computer skills will only be useful if students use the exact same technologies as adults. It implies those skills will be transferrable to later computer technologies.

Automotive technology is continually advancing too, but that does not result in one’s having to relearn to drive cars as the new advances are incorporated into new automobiles.

This analogy presents a weak counter to parent Q’s claim. It’s possible the way people interact with computers will change more significantly than the way people interact with vehicles.

Once people have graduated from high school, they have less time to learn about computers and technology than they had during their schooling years.

This gives a reason to support parent P’s conclusion, but does not address the objection raised by parent Q. If students are learning irrelevant skills, their training will be pointless regardless of how much time they have to learn them.

LSAT 111 – Section 1 – Question 04

LSAT 111 - Section 1 - Question 04

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