LSAT 114 – Section 1 – Question 03

LSAT 114 - Section 1 - Question 03

October 2002

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2%
152
B
0%
150
C
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153
D
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153
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95%
162
123
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142
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An anthropologist hypothesized that a certain medicinal powder contained a significant amount of the deadly toxin T. When the test she performed for the presence of toxin T was negative, the anthropologist did not report the results. A chemist who nevertheless learned about the test results charged the anthropologist with fraud. The anthropologist, however, countered that those results were invalid because the powder had inadvertently been tested in an acidic solution.

Summarize Argument
The chemist concludes the anthropologist committed fraud. No evidence is given for this claim.

Notable Assumptions
The chemist believes that the anthropologist committed fraud by not revealing the test results, which ran contrary to her hypothesis. Thus the chemist assumes that not revealing such results constitutes fraud.

A
Reporting results for an experiment that was not conducted and reporting a false result for an actual experiment are both instances of scientific fraud.
The anthropologist didn’t report any results.
B
Scientists can commit fraud and yet report some disconfirmations of their hypotheses.
The anthropologist didn’t report any disconfirmation.
C
Scientists can neglect to report some disconfirmations of their hypotheses and yet be innocent of fraud.
The anthropologist was, according to the chemist, guilty of fraud.
D
Scientists commit fraud whenever they report as valid any test result they know to be invalid.
The anthropologist didn’t report any test result.
E
Scientists who neglect to report any experiment that could be interpreted as disconfirming their hypotheses have thereby committed fraud.
The anthropologist didn’t report the disconfirming results of her test. Thus, she committed fraud.

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