LSAT 147 – Section 1 – Question 20
LSAT 147 - Section 1 - Question 20
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Type | Tags | Answer Choices |
Curve | Question Difficulty |
Psg/Game/S Difficulty |
Explanation |
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| PT147 S1 Q20 |
+LR
| Must be false +MBF Conditional Reasoning +CondR | A
10%
156
B
2%
152
C
4%
154
D
67%
164
E
17%
158
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149 156 163 |
+Harder | 147.09 +SubsectionMedium |
Sociologist: Television, telephones, and other electronic media encourage imprecise, uncritical thinking. Yet critical thinking is the only adequate protection against political demagogues, who seek to exploit people by presenting emotionally loaded language as an objective description of reality.
Summary
Television, telephones, and other electronic media encourage uncritical thinking. However, critical thinking is the only adequate protection against political demagogues, who seek to exploit people by presenting emotionally loaded language as an objective description of reality.
Notable Valid Inferences
A strong system of government cannot provide adequate protection against the influence of political demagogues.
A
There are no political demagogues in some highly technological societies.
Could be true. We don’t have any information about highly technological societies in the stimulus. It is possible that these societies do not have political demagogues.
B
Political demagogues are not the only ones who seek to exploit people by presenting emotionally loaded language as an objective description of reality.
Could be true. The stimulus does not tell us that political demagogues are the only ones who seek to exploit people. It is possible that there are others in addition to political demagogues with the same or similar objectives.
C
Highly emotional people are more easily exploited than less emotional people.
Could be true. The stimulus does not give us any information about what kinds of people are more easily exploited. It is possible highly emotional people are more easily exploited than less emotional people.
D
The mere presence of an orderly system of government in a society provides adequate protection against political demagogues.
Must be false. The stimulus tells us that critical thinking is the only adequate protection against political demagogues. Everything else, therefore, is inadequate.
E
The mere presence of electronic communications technology in a society provides adequate protection against the erosion of media freedoms.
Could be true. The stimulus is restricted to protection against political demagogues. We cannot assume protection against political demagogues is the same thing as protection from the erosion of media freedoms.
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LSAT PrepTest 147 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
- Question 26
Section 2 - Reading Comprehension
- Passage 1 – Passage
- Passage 1 – Questions
- Passage 2 – Passage
- Passage 2 – Questions
- Passage 3 – Passage
- Passage 3 – Questions
- Passage 4 – Passage
- Passage 4 – Questions
Section 3 - Reading Comprehension
- Passage 1 – Passage
- Passage 1 – Questions
- Passage 2 – Passage
- Passage 2 – Questions
- Passage 3 – Passage
- Passage 3 – Questions
- Passage 4 – Passage
- Passage 4 – Questions
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