LSAT 112 – Section 3 – Question 04

LSAT 112 - Section 3 - Question 04

December 2001

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Choices		 Curve Question
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PT112 S3 Q04
+LR
Point at issue: disagree +Disagr
Causal Reasoning +CausR
Net Effect +NetEff
A
1%
150
B
94%
160
C
2%
153
D
1%
142
E
2%
152
120
128
139
 +Easiest 144.548 +SubsectionEasier

Mary: Computers will make more information available to ordinary people than was ever available before, thus making it easier for them to acquire knowledge without consulting experts.

Joyce: As more knowledge became available in previous centuries, the need for specialists to synthesize and explain it to nonspecialists increased. So computers will probably create a greater dependency on experts.

Speaker 1 Summary
Mary thinks that computers will make it easier for ordinary people to acquire knowledge with no need for experts. Why? Because people will have access to more information than ever before. Mary is assuming that greater access to information will lead to greater ability to acquire knowledge without involving experts.

Speaker 2 Summary
Joyce thinks that computers will increase people’s need for experts. Why? Because in the past, a greater availability of knowledge led to a greater need for experts to explain that knowledge to non-experts. Joyce is assuming that the same thing will happen with computers.

Objective
We’re looking for a point of disagreement. Mary and Joyce disagree about whether computers will decrease or increase the need for people to rely on experts to acquire knowledge.

A
computers will contribute only negligibly to the increasing dissemination of knowledge in society
Neither speaker makes any claim about the overall impact of computers on the dissemination of knowledge in society. Both Mary and Joyce limit their arguments to how experts will be involved.
B
computers will increase the need for ordinary people seeking knowledge to turn to experts
Mary disagrees with this: her argument is meant to establish that computers will decrease people’s need for experts. Joyce agrees with this: she uses history to claim that people’s need for experts will increase. This is the point of disagreement.
C
computers will make more information available to ordinary people
Mary states this as a premise, so clearly agrees. Joyce also seems to agree, though: her argument implies that computers will make more knowledge available to ordinary people. Joyce certainly doesn’t claim otherwise.
D
dependency on computers will increase with the increase of knowledge
Neither speaker talks about dependency on computers or how an increase of knowledge would affect such a dependency.
E
synthesizing knowledge and explaining it to ordinary people can be accomplished only by computer experts
Neither speaker says that only computer experts can synthesize and explain knowledge to ordinary people. Joyce indicates that there will be a need for experts to synthesize and explain, but doesn’t say that only experts can do this, and doesn’t specify computer experts.

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