LSAT 145 – Section 4 – Question 11

LSAT 145 - Section 4 - Question 11

December 2015

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
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PT145 S4 Q11
+LR
Weaken +Weak
Sampling +Smpl
A
0%
153
B
6%
157
C
13%
161
D
74%
165
E
7%
160
138
151
164
 +Medium 148.528 +SubsectionMedium

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Polls have shown that a higher percentage of graduating university students are against proposals to reduce government social services than are students entering their first year at a university. These polls lead us to the conclusion that people with a university education are more likely to favor retaining or increasing the present level of government social services than are members of the overall population.

Summarize Argument
The author concludes that university graduates are more likely to be in favor of retaining or increasing social services than the overall population. As evidence, she cites polls showing that graduating university students view social services more favorably than incoming students.

Notable Assumptions
The author believes hat since graduating university students view social services favorably, people with university education view social services favorably. She therefore assumes people don’t change their views on social services sometime after graduating. The author also assumes that incoming university students are representative of the general population, without considering people who never attend university.

A
The polls of graduating university students were designed to avoid overrepresenting any single academic discipline.
This strengthens the author’s argument. The polls weren’t skewed any one way.
B
The political views of people with a university education are to a large degree influenced by their professors, and university professors are usually against reducing government social services.
Like (A), this strengthens the author’s argument. If people with a university education are strongly influenced by their pro-social service professors, then they likely are more in favor of social services than the general population.
C
Polls of retired persons who have not graduated from a university show a higher percentage of persons in favor of reducing government social services than do polls of retired persons who have graduated from a university.
This supports the author’s argument. Later in life, people with no university education are more likely in favor of cutting social services than people with a university education.
D
Polls of those who graduated from a university more than five years before being polled show a higher percentage of people in favor of reducing government social services than do polls of the overall population.
While graduating students are disproportionately in favor of social services, these views change within five years of graduation. Thus, people with a university education actually aren’t more likely than average to be in favor of social services.
E
In the polls cited, graduating university students were more likely to express strong opinions about the question of reducing government social services than were students entering a university.
We don’t care who has strong opinions on the issue. We simply care how favorably they view retaining or increasing social services.

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