Premise 4 ·Dissenting opinion is an important part of the deliberation process
Loss of unanimity will undermine society's confidence in the verdict.
Passage Style
Critique or debate
Analysis by ZoeLight
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Question Type
Author’s perspective
Implied
This is an Inference from the author's perspective question. Remember that the author's main position is that the costs of a hung jury do not outweigh the benefits of requiring juries to come to unanimous decisions.
Anti-supported. The author actually claims that hung juries usually happen when neither side has given completely convincing evidence. The author also claims that hung juries show that jurors are taking their job seriously, not that jurors are using bad judgement.
b
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Unsupported. This passage is focused on the unanimity requirement in juries; other flaws of the criminal justice system aren’t addressed, so we don’t know what the author thinks about this claim.
c
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Unsupported. The author does say that jury trials are rare, but this is not used to support the claim that any flaws in the jury system are insignificant. The entire passage is about how the unanimity requirement is important, so we can infer that the author disagrees with the claim that any flaws in the jury system are insignificant.
This is supported. The author thinks that the benefits of the unanimity requirement outweigh the costs of hung juries. The author also claims that hung juries show that jurors are taking their job seriously.
Unsupported. The author actually says that hung juries usually happen when neither side has given completely convincing evidence. Also, the unanimity requirement ensures that all jurors’ opinions are heard.
Difficulty
93% of people who answer get this correct
This is a slightly challenging question.
It is slightly harder than the average question in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%130
137
75%145
Analysis
Author’s perspective
Author’s perspective
Stems that ask us to find an answer the author is most likely to agree with.
Implied
Implied
Stems asking us to infer an idea implied by the claims in the passage (as opposed to identifying an idea that appears explicitly). Similar to most strongly supported questions in LR. Learn more.
Critique or debate
Critique or debate
Passages that develop multiple perspectives on the central topic. Learn more.
Law
Law
Passages with subject matter centered on law (jurisprudence, courts, legal systems, etc.)
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
1%
145
b
1%
148
c
4%
152
d
93%
160
e
2%
148
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