LSAT 145 – Section 4 – Question 04

LSAT 145 - Section 4 - Question 04

December 2015

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PT145 S4 Q04
+LR
Strengthen +Streng
Causal Reasoning +CausR
Eliminating Options +ElimOpt
A
0%
151
B
96%
164
C
1%
152
D
2%
156
E
1%
151
130
138
146
 +Easier 148.528 +SubsectionMedium

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Film director: It’s inaccurate to say that filmgoers stayed away from my film because it received one or two negative reviews. My film had such a small audience during its opening weekend simply because it was competing with several other films that appeal to the same type of filmgoer that mine does, and the number of such viewers is relatively small.

Summarize Argument: Phenomenon-Hypothesis
The director hypothesizes that negative reviews were not the reason that filmgoers stayed away from the director’s film. The director instead offers an alternative explanation for the film’s small opening weekend audience, based on observations about potential viewers: the small audience was because of a small initial pool of interested filmgoers being split among the director’s film and other, similar films that weekend.

Notable Assumptions
The director assumes that negative reviews couldn’t also have contributed to the low turnout. The director also assumes that if a filmgoer sees a competing film in the same weekend, that filmgoer will be less likely to see the director’s film.

A
The film director’s film received no positive reviews.
This doesn’t strengthen the director’s hypothesis, as the argument is that the low audience turnout on the film’s opening weekend was only caused by competition from other films, and not by reviews. If anything, this might weaken by making the bad reviews more impactful.
B
Filmgoers seldom see more than one film in a weekend.
This strengthens by affirming the assumption that filmgoers who saw a competing film would be less likely to see the director’s film. This makes it more reasonable to claim that competing films are the true explanation for the lower audience.
C
The total number of filmgoers was larger than average on the weekend the film director’s film opened.
Even with a high total number of filmgoers on the opening weekend, the pool of viewers for films like the director’s could still be small, so this doesn’t clearly affect the argument.
D
Each of the other films that the film director alludes to received one or two positive reviews.
Without knowing anything about the audience turnout for those other films relative to the director’s film, this doesn’t help us determine whether reviews are likely to have affected the turnout for the director’s film.
E
Most filmgoers are drawn to a variety of kinds of film.
This is irrelevant, because we already know that only a small number of people like the kind of film made by the director, regardless of how they feel about other types of films.

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