LSAT 154 – Section 4 – Question 05

LSAT 154 - Section 4 - Question 05

September 2017

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PT154 S4 Q05
+LR
Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE
A
1%
150
B
1%
146
C
92%
164
D
1%
148
E
4%
158
125
135
146
 +Easier 147.301 +SubsectionMedium

Professor: During election years, voters often feel that they are insufficiently informed about election issues. And studies have revealed the surprising fact that regular subscribers to the few newspapers that do provide extensive coverage of election issues are no better informed about election issues than subscribers to newspapers that have very little coverage of these issues.

"Surprising" Phenomenon

Subscribers to newspapers that cover election issues are no better informed than subscribers to newspapers that don’t cover election issues.

Objective

The right answer will be a hypothesis that gives us information about people who subscribe to newspapers covering election issues. This information must explain how these subscribers aren’t more-informed than people who subscribe newspapers that don’t cover election issues. The explanation will likely be that the people who read election coverage are confused by multiple perspectives, or that the subscribers don’t bother reading the election coverage that these newspapers run.

A
The newspapers that provide extensive coverage of election issues have a smaller circulation, on average, than the newspapers that provide very little coverage of these issues.

It doesn’t matter how many subscribers these newspapers are reaching. We need to know about the people who subscribe to them.

B
Many newspapers that once provided extensive coverage of election issues now provide very little coverage of these issues.

These newspapers would fall into the “not covering election” category. We need to know why people who subscribe to newspapers that do cover election issues aren’t more-informed than people who subscribe to other newspapers.

C
Most regular subscribers to the newspapers that provide extensive coverage of election issues rarely read the articles about these issues.

Rather than reading the election coverage, these subscribers do the crossword. They’re no better informed than the other subscribers because they don’t even read the coverage that these newspapers offer.

D
Many of the voters who feel that they are insufficiently informed about election issues do not subscribe to newspapers.

We care about people who do subscribe to newspapers.

E
Most voters get the majority of their information about election issues from sources other than newspapers.

We don’t care where most voters get their information from. We care about the ones who subscribe to newspapers.

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