LSAT 154 – Section 1 – Question 24

LSAT 154 - Section 1 - Question 24

September 2017

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT154 S1 Q24
+LR
+Exp
Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE
Causal Reasoning +CausR
A
6%
156
B
9%
156
C
2%
151
D
3%
154
E
79%
164
142
150
159
 +Medium 147.621 +SubsectionMedium

Nuts are high in calories. All else being equal, the more calories one consumes, the more likely one is to become overweight. However, studies have found that people who eat nuts regularly are actually less likely to be overweight than people who never eat nuts.

"Surprising" Phenomenon
Nuts are high in calories, yet people who eat nuts are less likely to be overweight than people who never eat nuts.

Objective
The correct answer will be a hypothesis that explains how people consuming a certain high-calorie food can gain less weight than those not consuming that high-calorie food. The explanation must result in nut-eaters mitigating their caloric intake with diet and/or exercise, or else result in the people who never eat nuts eating a higher-calorie diet overall.

A
The likelihood of becoming overweight depends not only on how many calories one consumes but also on how rapidly one burns those calories through physical activity.
This seems like a component of the explanation we’re looking for. However, we need to know that the nut-eaters are actually getting more physical activity.
B
Due to the fact that nuts are rich in calories, consuming a sufficiently large quantity produces a feeling of satiation.
This is missing a comparative aspect. How do we know the people who never eat nuts aren’t reaching the same feeling satiation on lower-calorie foods?
C
If people who avoid a certain kind of food are more likely to be overweight than people who consume that food regularly, then that food should not be avoided for weight loss purposes.
It doesn’t matter whether a food should or shouldn’t be avoided. We need to know why eating high-calorie nuts seems to be beneficial for preventing unhealthy weight gain.
D
On average, people who never eat nuts consume the same total calories per day as people who regularly eat nuts.
If both groups are eating the same amount of calories, then why are the nut-eaters less likely to be overweight? We need more information on how the two groups differ, rather than how they’re similar.
E
Most people who regularly eat nuts eat correspondingly less of foods whose taste, unlike that of nuts, stimulates a hunger response.
People who ate nuts were satisfied after eating. People who didn’t eat nuts ate food that made them think they were hungry, which led to overeating. This explains why eating nuts proved beneficial for preventing weight gain in the study.

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