LSAT 127 – Section 2 – Question 13

LSAT 127 - Section 2 - Question 13

December 2003

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT127 S2 Q13
+LR
Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE
Causal Reasoning +CausR
A
86%
165
B
7%
161
C
3%
157
D
1%
154
E
3%
157
128
141
154
 +Easier 146.61 +SubsectionMedium

Heart attacks are most likely to occur on Mondays. The accepted explanation is that because Monday is the first day of the workweek, people feel more stress on Mondays than on other days. However, research shows that even unemployed retired people are more likely to have heart attacks on Mondays than on other days.

"Surprising" Phenomenon
While heart attacks are most likely to happen on Mondays since people are stressed for the work week, unemployed retirees are also most likely to have heart attacks on Mondays.

Objective
The right answer will be a hypothesis that explains why unemployed retirees suffer heart attacks at higher rates on Mondays than the other days of the week. Either this answer will link unemployed retirees with stressed workers, or else give some other reason why Monday is a particularly likely day for heart attacks.

A
Because they associate Monday with work, retired people are more likely to begin large projects on Mondays.
After a lifetime of starting work on Monday, retired people begin large projects on Monday. This is stressful for them, hence why they too are more likely to suffer heart attacks on Monday than other days of the week.
B
Many retired people take up part-time jobs after they retire from their careers.
Do these part-time jobs start on Monday, too? This doesn’t tell us, so it can’t be right.
C
People seldom change their dietary and other health habits after retirement.
Mondays are conducive to heart attacks because of stress. Diet and health habits don’t factor into the equation, at least not according to the stimulus.
D
Stress is the major factor influencing the risk of heart attack.
We don’t know if retired people are stressed, and we have no reason to believe they’re more stressed on Mondays than other days. This doesn’t help.
E
Unemployed retired people are even more likely to have heart attacks than are people who have jobs.
We need an explanation. This simply gives us a fact that doesn’t clear anything up as to why retirees also suffer relatively more heart attacks on Mondays.

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