LSAT 137 – Section 4 – Question 12

LSAT 137 - Section 4 - Question 12

October 2012

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Question QuickView	Type	Tags	Answer Choices	Curve	Question Difficulty	Psg/Game/S Difficulty	Explanation
PT137 S4 Q12	+LR	Method of reasoning or descriptive +Method Analogy +An	A 7% 158 B 9% 158 C 2% 150 D 82% 165 E 1% 153	140 149 158	+Medium	146.883 +SubsectionMedium

Tamika: Many people have been duped by the claims of those who market certain questionable medical products. Their susceptibility is easy to explain: most people yearn for easy solutions to complex medical problems but don’t have the medical knowledge necessary to see through the sellers’ fraudulent claims. However, the same explanation cannot be given for a recent trend among medical professionals toward a susceptibility to fraudulent claims. They, of course, have no lack of medical knowledge.

Summarize Argument

Tamika implicitly concludes that there must be some other explanation for why medical professionals fall for fraudulent marketing claims about medical products. She supports this by saying that the explanation for why many people fall for such claims is that they lack necessary medical knowledge. However, this explanation doesn't apply to medical professionals because they have plenty of medical knowledge.

Describe Method of Reasoning

Tamika argues that one explanation— lacking medical knowledge— cannot be used to account for two groups’ similar behavior. As evidence, she points out that the two groups are dissimilar in relevant ways: while many people who believe fraudulent medical claims lack medical knowledge, medical professionals who fall for these claims have plenty of medical knowledge.

showing by analogy that medical professionals should not be susceptible to the fraudulent claims of those who market certain medical products

Tamika never suggests that medical professionals shouldn’t be susceptible to these fraudulent claims. She simply states that the explanation that people who fall for such claims lack medical knowledge does not account for the medical professionals’ susceptibility.

arguing against a hypothesis by showing that the hypothesis cannot account for the behavior of everyone

Tamika never argues against the hypothesis that people who fall for the fraudulent claims lack medical knowledge. She just argues that, while the hypothesis explains the susceptibility of many people to such claims, it doesn’t explain the susceptibility of medical professionals.

explaining the susceptibility of medical professionals to the fraudulent claims of those marketing certain medical products by casting doubt on the expertise of the professionals

Tamika doesn’t cast doubt on the expertise of the medical professionals. In fact, she explicitly says that they “have no lack of medical knowledge.”

arguing that since two groups are disanalogous in important respects, there must be different explanations for their similar behavior

Tamika argues that since two groups (”many people” and medical professionals) are disanalogous in important respects (one group lacks medical knowledge and the other has plenty), there must be different explanations for their similar susceptibility to fraudulent medical claims.

arguing that an explanation should be accepted in spite of apparent evidence against it

Tamika argues that the explanation that people lack medical knowledge “cannot be given” to account for medical professionals’ susceptibility to fraudulent claims. She argues that this explanation cannot be accepted because of clear evidence against it.

LSAT 137 – Section 4 – Question 12

LSAT 137 - Section 4 - Question 12

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