LSAT 145 – Section 4 – Question 05

LSAT 145 - Section 4 - Question 05

December 2015

You need a full course to see this video. Enroll now and get started in less than a minute.

Ask a tutor

Target time: 1:02

This is question data from the 7Sage LSAT Scorer. You can score your LSATs, track your results, and analyze your performance with pretty charts and vital statistics - all with a Free Account ← sign up in less than 10 seconds

Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT145 S4 Q05
+LR
Strengthen +Streng
Fill in the blank +Fill
A
97%
164
B
1%
152
C
1%
151
D
2%
153
E
0%
149
131
138
145
 +Easier 148.528 +SubsectionMedium

Live Commentary

You need a full course to see this video. Enroll now and get started in less than a minute.

Some scientific issues are so complex and counterintuitive that they cannot be well understood by readers of popular magazines. Nonetheless, stories about these difficult scientific issues are frequently the ones that these readers would find most fascinating. Unfortunately, this means that some of the scientific stories that would be most interesting to readers are usually not covered in popular magazines since _______.

Summarize Argument
The author concludes that some of the scientific stories that would be the most interesting to readers are unlikely to be covered in popular magazines. The author supports the conclusion by explaining that stories about complex scientific topics, which are likely to be super interesting, are not easily understood by readers. We need to fill in a missing premise to complete the argument.

Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that a story not being easily understood by popular magazine readers means that it will not be covered in a popular magazine.

A
editors of popular magazines generally do not approve stories about issues that cannot be well understood by those magazines’ readers
This strengthens the argument by giving us a direct reason to believe that stories that cannot be well understood by readers are not likely to be covered in magazines. This in turn supports the author’s conclusion that interesting but difficult topics will not be covered.
B
popular magazines cannot stay in business unless they regularly publish stories that their readers find interesting
This is irrelevant. The author isn’t making such sweeping claims about whether popular magazines do or don’t publish interesting stories, just claiming that some particular stories that would probably be interesting are not published.
C
highly complex and counterintuitive theories are increasingly common in almost all branches of science
This is irrelevant, since the author is only claiming that complex scientific issues would usually make for some of the most interesting stories to readers of popular science magazines. How common or uncommon those issues are doesn’t matter to the argument.
D
readers of popular magazines are generally unable to accurately assess their own understanding of complex scientific issues
It doesn’t matter to the argument whether readers are able to assess their understanding of complex scientific issues, only whether they actually do or don’t understand those issues.
E
most readers of popular magazines are unwilling to seek out other sources in order to read about scientific issues that they find interesting
Whether or not readers find other sources to read about scientific issues is irrelevant, as the author is only making claims about what scientific issues are likely to be covered in popular magazines.

Take PrepTest

Review Results

LSAT PrepTest 145 Explanations

Section 1 - Reading Comprehension

Section 2 - Logical Reasoning

Section 3 - Reading Comprehension

Section 4 - Logical Reasoning

Get full LSAT course

Leave a Reply