LSAT 130 – Section 3 – Question 10

LSAT 130 - Section 3 - Question 10

September 2009

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT130 S3 Q10
+LR
+Exp
Must be true +MBT
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
A
2%
157
B
2%
154
C
2%
153
D
6%
156
E
89%
164
133
142
152
 +Medium 145.135 +SubsectionEasier

Only people who are willing to compromise should undergo mediation to resolve their conflicts. Actual litigation should be pursued only when one is sure that one’s position is correct. People whose conflicts are based on ideology are unwilling to compromise.

Summary
The stimulus can be diagrammed as follows:

Notable Valid Inferences
People shouldn’t undergo mediation if the conflict they seek to resolve is based on ideology.

A
People who do not undergo mediation to resolve their conflicts should be sure that their positions are correct.
Could be false. This answer wants you to believe that the only options for people with conflicts are mediation or litigation, but the stimulus doesn’t tell us that. Maybe there’s another conflict resolution method, or maybe some people don’t resolve their conflicts at all.
B
People whose conflicts are not based on ideology should attempt to resolve their conflicts by means of litigation.
Could be false. If your conflicts are not ideological, maybe you’re willing to compromise and you should mediate! Furthermore, we can’t make any inference connecting “ideology-based conflicts” with “should pursue litigation.” Maybe there are more conflict resolution methods.
C
People whose conflicts are based on ideology are not always sure that their positions are correct.
Could be false. Nothing in the stimulus allows us to link ideology-based conflicts with being sure that one’s position is correct. Maybe everyone with an ideology-based conflict is sure that their positions are correct and they should all pursue litigation!
D
People who are sure of the correctness of their positions are not people who should undergo mediation to resolve their conflicts.
Could be false. (D) wants you to confuse the necessary with the sufficient: we know that you should be sure you’re correct if you’re going to pursue litigation, but not that you should pursue litigation if you’re sure you’re correct. Maybe mediation is preferable to litigation.
E
People whose conflicts are based on ideology are not people who should undergo mediation to resolve their conflicts.
Must be true. As shown below, we can chain the conditional claims to see that “should pursue mediation” is a sufficient condition of “conflicts are not ideology-based.” By the contrapositive, “conflicts ideology-based” is a sufficient condition of “should not pursue mediation.”

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