LSAT 146 – Section 2 – Question 08
LSAT 146 - Section 2 - Question 08
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PT146 S2 Q08 |
+LR
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| Flaw or descriptive weakening +Flaw Conditional Reasoning +CondR Rule-Application +RuleApp Part v. Whole +PvW | A
1%
148
B
0%
156
C
0%
147
D
99%
162
E
0%
156
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120 127 134 |
+Easiest | 148.55 +SubsectionMedium |
Summarize Argument
The author concludes that Liang should not receive a bonus this year. This is based on the fact that the only employees who should get a bonus are those who were exceptionally productive. And the corporate division in which Liang works wasn’t met its productivity goals for the year.
Identify and Describe Flaw
The author assumes that if the corporate division in which she works wasn’t exceptionally productive, then Liang wasn’t exceptionally productive. This is a whole-to-part fallacy. This overlooks the possibility that Liang could have been exceptionally productive, even if her division wasn’t; maybe other people were dragging down the whole division despite Liang’s productivity.
A
fails to take into account the possibility that the standards by which productivity is judged might vary across different divisions of a corporation
This possibility wouldn’t undermine the argument. Even if productivity is measured in different ways, it’s still the case that we can determine whether one division is productive using the relevant ways of measuring productivity.
B
overlooks the possibility that a corporation as a whole can have a profitable year even though one division of the corporation does not
The conclusion doesn’t assert that the corporation didn’t have a profitable year. So this possibility doesn’t undermine the reasoning.
C
fails to justify its use of one group’s performance as the basis for a conclusion about a wholly different group
The conclusion isn’t about a different group. It’s about Liang, who is an individual within a group.
D
reaches a conclusion about the performance of one member of a group merely on the basis of the performance of the group as a whole
We know that Liang’s corporate division didn’t meet productivity goals. That doesn’t mean Liang herself failed to meet productivity goals or wasn’t exceptionally productive. This is why the argument’s reasoning is not persuasive.
E
takes for granted that an employee who has an unproductive year will not be exceptionally productive in subsequent years
The author doesn’t conclude that Liang shouldn’t get the bonus in subsequent years. The argument concerns only this year.
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LSAT PrepTest 146 Explanations
Section 1 - Logical Reasoning
- Question 01
- Question 02
- Question 03
- Question 04
- Question 05
- Question 06
- Question 07
- Question 08
- Question 09
- Question 10
- Question 11
- Question 12
- Question 13
- Question 14
- Question 15
- Question 16
- Question 17
- Question 18
- Question 19
- Question 20
- Question 21
- Question 22
- Question 23
- Question 24
- Question 25
Section 2 - Logical Reasoning
- Question 01
- Question 02
- Question 03
- Question 04
- Question 05
- Question 06
- Question 07
- Question 08
- Question 09
- Question 10
- Question 11
- Question 12
- Question 13
- Question 14
- Question 15
- Question 16
- Question 17
- Question 18
- Question 19
- Question 20
- Question 21
- Question 22
- Question 23
- Question 24
- Question 25
- Question 26
Section 3 - Logical Reasoning
- Question 01
- Question 02
- Question 03
- Question 04
- Question 05
- Question 06
- Question 07
- Question 08
- Question 09
- Question 10
- Question 11
- Question 12
- Question 13
- Question 14
- Question 15
- Question 16
- Question 17
- Question 18
- Question 19
- Question 20
- Question 21
- Question 22
- Question 23
- Question 24
- Question 25
- Question 26
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