LSAT 132 – Section 4 – Question 14

LSAT 132 - Section 4 - Question 14

December 2010

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PT132 S4 Q14
+LR
Weaken +Weak
Causal Reasoning +CausR
Analogy +An
A
1%
156
B
17%
160
C
1%
154
D
15%
159
E
66%
165
138
153
168
 +Harder 146.238 +SubsectionMedium

Politician: It has been proposed that the national parks in our country be managed by private companies rather than the government. A similar privatization of the telecommunications industry has benefited consumers by allowing competition among a variety of telephone companies to improve service and force down prices. Therefore, the privatization of the national parks would probably benefit park visitors as well.

Summarize Argument
The politician concludes that privatizing national parks will benefit visitors. She reaches this conclusion by analogy: a privatization project in telecommunications benefited consumers.

Notable Assumptions
By appealing to the privatization of telecommunications, the politician assumes that there are no relevant difference between telecommunications and national parks. She also assumes that there’s some relevant analog to competition among telecommunications providers for national parks.

A
It would not be politically expedient to privatize the national parks even if doing so would, in the long run, improve service and reduce the fees charged to visitors.
It doesn’t matter what would be politically expedient. We care about whether or not it would benefit visitors.
B
The privatization of the telecommunications industry has been problematic in that it has led to significantly increased unemployment and economic instability in that industry.
Even if that’s true, it still benefited consumers. The politician concludes about how privatizing national parks would benefit visitors, so we don’t care about other problems privatization may cause.
C
The vast majority of people visiting the national parks are unaware of proposals to privatize the management of those parks.
We don’t care whether the visitors know the parks might be privatized. We care whether privatization would benefit them.
D
Privatizing the national parks would benefit a much smaller number of consumers to a much smaller extent than did the privatization of the telecommunications industry.
It would still benefit visitors. This agrees with the politician’s conclusion.
E
The privatization of the national parks would produce much less competition between different companies than did the privatization of the telecommunications industry.
Privatizing telecommunications benefitted consumers through increased competition, but that wouldn’t happen with national parks since there’s so little competition in the industry. Thus, the politician’s appeal to a supposedly analogous case isn’t valid.

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