LSAT 129 – Section 2 – Question 05

LSAT 129 - Section 2 - Question 05

June 2009

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Choices		 Curve Question
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PT129 S2 Q05
+LR
Strengthen +Streng
Rule-Application +RuleApp
A
1%
160
B
5%
160
C
2%
158
D
2%
159
E
91%
165
120
131
146
 +Easiest 144.702 +SubsectionEasier

Studies reveal that most people select the foods they eat primarily on the basis of flavor, and that nutrition is usually a secondary concern at best. This suggests that health experts would have more success in encouraging people to eat wholesome foods if they emphasized how flavorful those foods truly are rather than how nutritious they are.

Summarize Argument
The author concludes that health experts would be able to get people to eat wholesome foods if they emphasized flavor over health. This is because people generally choose what they eat based on flavor rather than health.

Notable Assumptions
The author assumes people would genuinely like foods like broccoli and lentils taste enough to start incorporating them into their diets. The author also assumes most people don’t choose some small portion of their diet based on nutrition rather than taste, in which case recommending foods based on their nutritional value may in fact be a more successful strategy.

A
Most people currently believe that wholesome foods are more flavorful, on average, than unwholesome foods are.
Most people would presumably be eating wholesome foods, given that most people choose what they eat based on taste. We need to strengthen the claim that emphasizing flavor will encourage more people to eat wholesome foods.
B
Few people, when given a choice between foods that are flavorful but not nutritious and foods that are nutritious but not flavorful, will choose the foods that are nutritious but not flavorful.
This is basically stated. People generally choose based on flavor.
C
Health experts’ attempts to encourage people to eat wholesome foods by emphasizing how nutritious those foods are have been moderately successful.
We need to strengthen the claim that emphasizing how these foods taste will be even more successful.
D
The studies that revealed that people choose the foods they eat primarily on the basis of flavor also revealed that people rated as most flavorful those foods that were least nutritious.
This doesn’t help the author’s argument. People who eat based on flavor like unhealthy foods most of all.
E
In a study, subjects who were told that a given food was very flavorful were more willing to try the food and more likely to enjoy it than were subjects who were told that the food was nutritious.
People are more likely to try and enjoy foods they’re told are flavorful than foods they’re told are nutritious. Thus, it’s probably a good idea for health experts to emphasize flavor over taste.

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