LSAT 151 – Section 3 – Question 05

LSAT 151 - Section 3 - Question 05

September 2018

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PT151 S3 Q05
+LR
Most strongly supported +MSS
Fill in the blank +Fill
A
5%
158
B
1%
154
C
3%
151
D
90%
161
E
0%
147
120
131
144
 +Easiest 146.292 +SubsectionMedium

A person with low self-esteem will be treated disrespectfully more often than will a person with high self-esteem. Moreover, a recent experiment found that, when people with low self-esteem and those with high self-esteem are both confronted with the same treatment by others, people with low self-esteem are much more likely to feel that they have been treated disrespectfully. Thus, _______.

Summary
People with low self-esteem are treated disrespectfully more often than people with high self-esteem. A recent experiment discovered when people with low self-esteem and people with high self-esteem receive the same treatment from others, people with low self-esteem are more likely to feel they have been treated disrespectfully.

Strongly Supported Conclusions
Thus, people with low self-esteem believe they are being treated disrespectfully more often than people with high self-esteem.

A
people with low self-esteem are usually right when they think they have been treated disrespectfully
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know from the stimulus whether the perceptions of people with low self-esteem are objectively correct or not. We only know people with low self-esteem believe that they are treated disrespectfully more often.
B
being treated disrespectfully tends to cause a person to develop lower self-esteem
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know from the stimulus what causes a person to develop low self-esteem. We only know that there is a correlation between low self-esteem and feeling disrespected.
C
if an individual has been treated disrespectfully, it is probably because the individual was perceived to have low self-esteem
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know from the stimulus what causes a person to be treated disrespectfully. We only know that there is a correlation between low self-esteem and feeling disrespected.
D
people with low self-esteem more frequently think that they are being treated disrespectfully than do people with high self-esteem
This answer is strongly supported. We know from the stimulus that even in the case where people with low self-esteem and people with high self-esteem receive the same treatment, the people with low self-esteem are more likely to feel disrespected.
E
a person with low self-esteem will be more inclined to treat others disrespectfully than will a person with high self-esteem
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know from the stimulus how people with low self-esteem treat others.

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