LSAT 131 – Section 1 – Question 25

LSAT 131 - Section 1 - Question 25

December 2009

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Question QuickView	Type	Tags	Answer Choices	Curve	Question Difficulty	Psg/Game/S Difficulty	Explanation
PT131 S1 Q25	+LR +Exp	Weaken +Weak Causal Reasoning +CausR	A 74% 167 B 6% 160 C 4% 159 D 13% 161 E 3% 159	148 157 165	+Harder	147.383 +SubsectionMedium

On average, corporations that encourage frequent social events in the workplace show higher profits than those that rarely do. This suggests that the EZ Corporation could boost its profits by having more staff parties during business hours.

Summarize Argument

The author concludes the EZ Corporation could increase profits by having more staff parties during business hours. He supports this with a study: on average, corporations that encourage frequent social events in the workplace have high profits than corporations that don’t.

Notable Assumptions

The author believes that social events that happen in the workplace, such as those cited in the statistic, happen during work hours. This means the author assumes that the productivity loss of holding a social event during work hours would be outweighed by whatever benefits such events bring to the workplace. He also believes, based on a correlation between workplace social events and higher profits, that the former causes the latter. The author therefore assumes the relationship isn’t reversed (i.e. higher profits causing workplace social events).

The great majority of corporations that encourage frequent social events in the workplace do so at least in part because they are already earning above-average profits.

Workplace social events don’t cause higher profits. Corporations earning high profits have the means and financial freedom to host such events.

Corporations that have frequent staff parties after business hours sometimes have higher profits than do corporations that have frequent staff parties during business hours.

We’re not talking about how to maximize profits. Even if this were true, holding social events during business hours may still raise profits to some degree.

The EZ Corporation already earns above-average profits, and it almost never brings play into the workplace.

Workplace social events could still raise the EZ Corporation’s profits.

Frequent social events in a corporate workplace leave employees with less time to perform their assigned duties than they would otherwise have.

We don’t know if this would decrease profits. Perhaps corporate employees work well with strict time constraints.

At one time the EZ Corporation encouraged social events in the workplace more frequently than it currently does, but it has not always been one of the most profitable corporations of its size.

The author never says that workplace social events will make a corporation among the most profitable of its size. He simply says hosting such events will boost profits.

LSAT 131 – Section 1 – Question 25

LSAT 131 - Section 1 - Question 25

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