LSAT 156 – Section 2 – Question 03

LSAT 156 - Section 2 - Question 03

July 2020

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PT156 S2 Q03
+LR
Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE
A
1%
140
B
4%
146
C
93%
157
D
2%
147
E
1%
143
120
128
138
 +Easiest 145.275 +SubsectionEasier

A recent study has found that, surprisingly, the risk of serious injuries to workers is higher in industries that are monitored by government safety inspectors than in industries that are not so monitored.

"Surprising" Phenomenon
Industries monitored by government safety inspectors are more dangerous to workers than industries that aren’t monitored by government safety inspectors.

Objective
The correct answer will be a hypothesis that explains a key difference between government-monitored industries and non-government-monitored industries. That difference must result in the latter being safer for workers, likely because of the work involved or because of some other monitoring system in place.

A
Government safety inspectors not only monitor but also train employees of the inspected firms to follow safe practices.
This suggests that the government-inspected industries would be rather safe. We need to know why they’re less safe than non-government-monitored industries.
B
Government safety inspectors do not have the authority to enforce safety regulations.
It doesn’t matter if the regulations are enforced. We need to know why government monitoring is correlated with lower workplace safety.
C
Only those industries with an inherently high risk of on-the-job injury are monitored by government safety inspectors.
Government-monitored industries are less safe because the industries are inherently dangerous. Other industries, even though they’re not monitored, pose less risks to workers. This explains the surprising finding in the study.
D
Workers behave especially cautiously when they believe their performance is being monitored by government safety inspectors.
If workers are more cautious than usual in government-monitored industries, wouldn’t injuries be less common than usual? We need something to explain why they’re more common.
E
Some of the industries that are monitored by government safety inspectors have much lower rates of injuries than do other industries that are also so monitored.
We’re not interested in outliers. Our stimulus tells us that government-monitored industries are generally less safe than other industries, and we need to know why that is.

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