LSAT 130 – Section 3 – Question 01

LSAT 130 - Section 3 - Question 01

September 2009

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Choices		 Curve Question
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PT130 S3 Q01
+LR
+Exp
Most strongly supported +MSS
A
1%
155
B
0%
156
C
0%
159
D
0%
152
E
97%
163
120
124
135
 +Easiest 145.135 +SubsectionEasier

Students in a first-year undergraduate course were divided into two groups. All the students in both groups were given newspaper articles identical in every respect, except for the headline, which was different for each group. When the students were later asked questions about the contents of the article, the answers given by the two groups were markedly different, though within each group the answers were similar.

Summary
Two groups of students were given newspaper articles that were identical in every way, except for the headline. When the students answered questions about the article, the answers given by each group were very different, though the answers within each group were similar.

Strongly Supported Conclusions
Headlines can impact the way one reads the content of a newspaper.

A
Readers base their impressions of what is in a newspaper on headlines alone.
This is too strong to support. All we know is that a headline can impact one’s perception of what is in the newspaper, not that it is the sole factor.
B
Newspaper headlines hamper a reader’s ability to comprehend the corresponding articles.
There is no information about a reader’s ability to comprehend other articles in the paper.
C
Careless reading is more common among first-year undergraduates than among more senior students.
There is no information to support a comparative statement between seniors and first-year students. Also, there is no direct support that any students engaged in “careless” reading.
D
Newspaper headlines tend to be highly misleading.
There is no support that newspaper headlines “tend” to be misleading. The stimulus only provides a study that had two different headlines. You need to make a lot of real-world assumptions to make this answer choice work.
E
Newspaper headlines influence a reader’s interpretation of the corresponding articles.
This follows logically. The two articles were similar in every respect except the headline and the groups gave vastly different responses.

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