LSAT 148 – Section 3 – Question 05

LSAT 148 - Section 3 - Question 05

December 2016

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT148 S3 Q05
+LR
+Exp
Flaw or descriptive weakening +Flaw
Fact v. Belief v. Knowledge +FvBvK
A
0%
147
B
13%
155
C
3%
152
D
3%
157
E
81%
164
141
150
158
 +Medium 149.233 +SubsectionMedium

Jenkins maintains that the movie Firepower was not intended to provoke antisocial behavior, arguing that, on the contrary, it is in the interest of Firepower’s director to prevent such behavior. Yet Jenkins’s conclusion must be rejected, because the movie has clearly produced antisocial behavior among many of those who have seen it.

Summarize Argument: Counter-Position
The author concludes that the movie Firepower was intended to provoke antisocial behavior. This is based on the fact that the movie has produced antisocial behavior among many who have seen it.

Identify and Describe Flaw
The author assumes that the fact Firepower produced antisocial behavior proves it intended to produce that effect. This overlooks the possibility that something can produce unintended effects.

A
rejects an argument on the grounds that it was offered by a person who was biased
The author doesn’t claim that Jenkins was biased.
B
concludes from a mere correlation between certain phenomena that those phenomena are causally related
The premise establishes that the movie caused antisocial effects. So the argument doesn’t move from correlation to cause.
C
infers that something is true of a whole solely on the grounds that it is true of a part of the whole
The argument doesn’t commit a part-to-whole fallacy. The premises concern the effects of Firepower, and the conclusion concerns the intention behind Firepower.
D
overlooks the possibility that people can act in a way that is contrary to their expressed interest
The author’s argument doesn’t relate to the director’s interest. Jenkins’s position involved a claim about the director’s interest; but the author’s rejection of Jenkin’s argument doesn’t relate to the director’s interest.
E
concludes from the mere fact that an action had a certain effect that the effect was intended by the person who performed the action
The author concludes that the movie was intended to produce antisocial effects merely from the fact that the movie produced such effects. This is flawed, because the movie might have produced unintended effects.

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