LSAT 143 – Section 3 – Question 07

LSAT 143 - Section 3 - Question 07

June 2015

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT143 S3 Q07
+LR
Flaw or descriptive weakening +Flaw
Link Assumption +LinkA
A
0%
152
B
92%
164
C
4%
152
D
1%
153
E
3%
157
138
145
152
 +Medium 147.721 +SubsectionMedium

Employee: My boss says that my presentation to our accounting team should have included more detail about profit projections. But people’s attention tends to wander when they are presented with too much detail. So, clearly my boss is incorrect.

Summarize Argument: Counter-Position
The author concludes that the presentation to the accounting team was appropriate in leaving out “more detail” about profit projections. This is based on the fact that people’s attention tends to wander when they’re presented with “too much” detail.

Identify and Describe Flaw
The author overlooks the possibility that the presentation should have included more detail, but not so much that it would be “too much.

A
takes for granted that the boss’s assessments of employee presentations are generally not accurate
The author doesn’t assume that the boss’s assessments are “generally” not accurate. The author takes issue with the boss’s specific claim about a particular presentation.
B
fails to distinguish between more of something and too much of it
The author fails to distinguish between more detail and too much detail. The presentation could have included more detail, even if too much detail is also undesirable.
C
fails to consider that an audience’s attention might wander for reasons other than being presented with too much detail
The author doesn’t assume that the only reason people’s attention might wander is too much detail. The author merely cites too much detail as one reason people’s attention might wander.
D
infers a generalization based only on a single case
The conclusion is not a generalization. It’s a claim about a specific presentation.
E
confuses two distinct meanings of the key term “detail”
The word “detail” does not take on two different meanings in this argument.

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