LSAT 121 – Section 4 – Question 01

LSAT 121 - Section 4 - Question 01

December 2005

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
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PT121 S4 Q01
+LR
Main conclusion or main point +MC
Sampling +Smpl
A
1%
155
B
1%
156
C
97%
163
D
0%
157
E
1%
150
125
133
142
 +Easiest 146.544 +SubsectionMedium

While 65 percent of the eligible voters who were recently polled favor Perkins over Samuels in the coming election, the results of that poll are dubious because it was not based on a representative sample. Given that Perkins predominantly advocates the interests of the upper-middle class and that the survey was conducted at high-priced shopping malls, it is quite probable that Perkins’s supporters were overrepresented.

Summarize Argument: Counter-Position
The author concludes that the results of a recent election poll are questionable. The support for this comes from the idea that the poll was conducted in high-priced shopping malls. Because Perkins’s policies support the upper-middle class, it is likely that her supporters are overrepresented at the expensive malls. This means that the sample for the poll was biased, so the results of the poll are probably not representative of the views of eligible voters in general.

Identify Conclusion
The conclusion is that the results of the election poll may not be accurate: “the results of that poll are dubious.”

A
The poll was intentionally designed to favor Perkins over Samuels.
There is no indication in the argument that the problematic design of the poll was intentional, so this is not the conclusion.
B
Samuels’s supporters believe that they were probably not adequately represented in the poll.
There is no discussion of what the supporters of Samuels believe, so this is not the main conclusion.
C
The poll’s results probably do not accurately represent the opinions of the voters in the coming election.
This is the main conclusion. This is a paraphrase of the part of the argument that was identified as the conclusion. Further, the rest of the argument acts as support for this claim.
D
Samuels is quite likely to have a good chance of winning the coming election.
The argument does not give any indication of the accurate polling numbers; we just know that the poll discussed in the argument might not be accurate. This is unsupported from the argument, so it is not the main conclusion.
E
Those who designed the poll should have considered more carefully where to conduct the survey.
This kind of value judgement (what poll designers “should have considered”) is not included in the argument, so this is not the main conclusion.

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