LSAT 154 – Section 2 – Question 25

LSAT 154 - Section 2 - Question 25

September 2017

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT154 S2 Q25
+LR
Point at issue: disagree +Disagr
Analogy +An
A
5%
155
B
6%
155
C
25%
159
D
61%
165
E
4%
154
148
158
168
 +Harder 144.659 +SubsectionEasier

Babson: The idea of charging people a dollar to read individual articles and essays online, while novel, will succeed if the quality of the articles and essays is high enough. A dollar isn’t much money: in many countries people routinely reward quality service with tips of much more than a dollar.

Cortez: But most people tip only for those services for which it is customary to tip. The fact that people don’t currently pay for articles and essays individually is a bad sign for anyone who hopes to earn money this way.

Speaker 1 Summary
Babson claims that charging people a dollar to read high-quality online articles will probably succeed, even though it’s a new idea. So why would it succeed? Because a dollar isn’t too much to charge, which is further supported by the fact that people will tip more than a dollar for various other services.

Speaker 2 Summary
Cortez thinks that current tipping practices, which don’t yet include paying for individual articles, are actually a sign that this idea may fail. This is because people generally only tip when there’s a custom of tipping for a particular service. This means that they may not tip for a new type of service.

Objective
We’re looking for a point of disagreement. Babson and Cortez disagree about whether current tipping culture predicts the success of this idea for charging for online articles.

A
people will routinely part with money under circumstances in which it is considered customary to do so
Both speakers most likely agree with this. Babson says people routinely tip for services, and we can reasonably assume that tipping is customary in at least some of those cases. Cortez says people only tip when it’s customary, and it’s fair to assume this is sometimes routine.
B
people in countries in which tipping is customary are more likely than people in other countries to be willing to pay a dollar to read individual articles and essays online
Like (C), neither speaker expresses this opinion. Their discussion is about what implications tipping culture would have for this model of charging for articles online, but they never talk about how this compares to countries where tipping isn’t customary.
C
it is possible to write articles and essays for which some people would pay a dollar each to read online even where social customs do not support such a practice
Like (B), neither speaker talks about this. The point at issue is whether social customs around tipping would truly support such a practice. Cultures without those social customs are just never discussed.
D
people’s attitudes toward tipping suggest that the idea of charging a dollar to read individual articles and essays online will be successful as long as their quality is high enough
Babson thinks that this is true but Cortez thinks it’s false: this is the point of disagreement. Babson uses tipping practices as support for the likely success of this new idea. Cortez, however, concludes that tipping practices are a “bad sign” for this idea.
E
most people are likely to find the idea of paying a dollar to read individual articles and essays online to be a novel one
Both speakers agree with this. Babson calls this idea “novel,” and Cortez talks about how most people do not currently engage in this method of paying for articles.

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