LSAT 127 – Section 2 – Question 05

LSAT 127 - Section 2 - Question 05

December 2003

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Question QuickView	Type	Tags	Answer Choices	Curve	Question Difficulty	Psg/Game/S Difficulty	Explanation
PT127 S2 Q05	+LR	Flaw or descriptive weakening +Flaw Analogy +An	A 0% 157 B 1% 152 C 1% 154 D 1% 153 E 97% 164	127 135 143	+Easier	146.61 +SubsectionMedium

Chinh: Television producers should not pay attention to the preferences of the viewing public when making creative decisions. Great painters do not consider what the museum-going public wants to see.

Lana: But television is expressly for the viewing public. So a producer is more like a CEO than like an artist. Just as a company would be foolhardy not to consider consumers’ tastes when developing products, the TV producer must consider viewers’ preferences.

Summarize Argument

Chinh concludes that viewers’ preferences shouldn’t be a factor in TV producers’ creative decisions. As support, Chinh uses an analogy: great painters don’t think about the desires of museum attendees.

Identify and Describe Flaw

As Lana says, Chinh uses an analogy that isn’t analogous enough. Chinh compares the relationship between TV producers and the viewing public with the relationship between great painters and the museum-going public, but the comparison falls short. TV producers may be more directly influenced by audience preferences than painters are by museum visitors.

is circular

This is not a circular argument. The premise isn’t just restating the conclusion.

relies on a sample of consumers that is unrepresentative of consumers in general

This is descriptively inaccurate. Chinh’s argument doesn’t rely on a sample of consumers.

infers from the effect produced by an action that the action is intended to produce that effect

This is descriptively inaccurate. Chinh’s argument does not make any inferences about the intentions of actions based on the outcomes of the actions.

fails to consider the possibility that painters may in fact try to please the museum-going public

This is not the issue that Lana has with Chinh’s argument. Chinh explicitly states that great painters don’t consider the desires of the museum-going public, and Lana’s issue with Chinh’s argument is that the analogy is weak, not that Chinh may be wrong about painters.

offers a faulty analogy

This is the flaw. As Lana points out, TV producers may be more beholden to the desires of the viewing public than great painters are to the desires of museum-goers.

LSAT 127 – Section 2 – Question 05

LSAT 127 - Section 2 - Question 05

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Section 1 - Logical Reasoning

Section 2 - Logical Reasoning

Section 3 - Logical Reasoning

Section 4 - Reading Comprehension

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