LSAT 104 – Section 4 – Question 19

LSAT 104 - Section 4 - Question 19

December 1998

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT104 S4 Q19
+LR
Necessary assumption +NA
Link Assumption +LinkA
Eliminating Options +ElimOpt
A
72%
170
B
16%
162
C
2%
161
D
9%
165
E
2%
162
151
160
168
 +Hardest 147.438 +SubsectionMedium

Most people feel that they are being confused by the information from broadcast news. This could be the effect of the information’s being delivered too quickly or of its being poorly organized. Analysis of the information content of a typical broadcast news story shows that news stories are far lower in information density than the maximum information density with which most people can cope at any one time. So the information in typical broadcast news stories is poorly organized.

Summary
The author concludes that the information in typical broadcast news stories is poorly organized. This is based on the following:
Most people feel that they’re confused by info in broadcast news. This could be due to the info being delivered too quickly or to its being poorly organized. But, the author attempts to eliminate the “too quickly” explanation by pointing out that the content of a typical news story shows that most people can handle far more density of info than the average info density of a news story.

Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that the fact people can handle a higher density of info than what’s found in a typical news story indicates that people are not confused by the news info being delivered too quickly.
The author also overlooks the possibility that there are other explanations besides being delivered too quickly or being poorly organized that might account for why people are confused by info from broadcast news.

A
It is not the number of broadcast news stories to which a person is exposed that is the source of the feeling of confusion.
Necessary, because if this isn’t true — if the number of news stories that a person is exposed to is the source of confusion — then that undermines the author’s theory that the reason for confusion must be the poor organization of stories. Notice that the author’s premise concerning information density only related to the density of info in a typical story; this overlooks the potential impact of being exposed to many stories.
B
Poor organization of information in a news story makes it impossible to understand the information.
Not necessary, because the argument concerns the cause of confusion. One can still be confused by the info in a story, even if it’s possible to understand the info.
C
Being exposed to more broadcast news stories within a given day would help a person to better understand the news.
Not necessary, because the author believes poor organization is the cause of confusion. So although the author thinks better organization would help someone be less confused, that doesn’t imply the author must think that having more news stories would help someone be less confused.
D
Most people can cope with a very high information density.
We know that most people can cope with more density than that found in a typical news story. This doesn’t imply the author thinks most people can cope with a “very high” info density. Maybe the info density of a news story is low, and people can cope with just slightly more.
E
Some people are being overwhelmed by too much information.

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