LSAT 154 – Section 4 – Question 22

LSAT 154 - Section 4 - Question 22

September 2017

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT154 S4 Q22
+LR
Weaken +Weak
Causal Reasoning +CausR
Net Effect +NetEff
A
34%
162
B
10%
156
C
9%
160
D
40%
167
E
6%
160
156
168
180
 +Hardest 147.301 +SubsectionMedium

Educator: Environmental factors clearly have little effect on whether a teenager will participate in sports. Family life is probably the strongest environmental factor, yet it is common for one teenager in a family to participate in sports enthusiastically while other teenagers in the family are indifferent to sports. Moreover, school programs designed to encourage inactive teenagers to participate in sports are generally ineffective.

Summarize Argument
The author concludes that environmental factors have little effect on whether a teenager will participate in sports. This is based on the fact that it’s common for one teenager in a family to participate in sports, but for the other teenagers in the same family to avoid sports. In addition, school programs that try to get inactive teenagers to participate in sports are usually ineffective.

Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that evidence of the ineffectiveness of certain environmental factors, such as family and school environment, shows that other environmental factors are similarly ineffective. The author also assumes that the family environment is generally similar from one teen to another within the same family.

A
Athletic ability varies, even among siblings, and teenagers who have demonstrable athletic ability are more likely than those who do not to participate in sports.
This strengthens the argument by suggesting difference in athletic ability (which is not an environmental factor) might be the predominant cause of differences in sports participation among members of the same family.
B
Some teenagers, even those in schools that do not have any sports programs, are more enthusiastic about participating in sports than their parents are.
Comparisons of enthusiasm between teens and parents don’t have any clear impact. If anything, (B) might strengthen by showing that teens’ participation is not influenced much by parents’ lower enthuasiasm.
C
Adults’ enthusiasm for participating in sports generally is directly proportional to the extent to which they participated in sports when they were younger.
This tells us about how adults’ enthusiasm relates to the same adults’ enthusiasm when they were younger. But this doesn’t reveal anything about what might have caused their enthusiasm when they were younger.
D
The proportion of teenagers who participate in sports varies greatly from society to society and from decade to decade.
Different societies/decades involve different environments (ex. think about cultures in different countries and times). If environment had little impact, we’d expect sports participation not to vary widely. But it does, suggesting environment has more than little impact.
E
School programs designed to encourage inactive teenagers to participate in sports widely vary in success, with only a few being highly successful.
If anything, this might strengthen the argument by providing additional evidence to question the effectiveness of programs designed to get teens to participate in sports. If only a few are highly successful, maybe it’s just coincidence. The program might not be the cause.

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