LSAT 152 – Section 4 – Question 04

LSAT 152 - Section 4 - Question 04

November 2018

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Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
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PT152 S4 Q04
+LR
Method of reasoning or descriptive +Method
Causal Reasoning +CausR
A
0%
151
B
2%
151
C
2%
151
D
1%
148
E
95%
162
131
138
145
 +Easier 147.181 +SubsectionMedium

Warner: Until recently, most competitive swimmers were high school or university students. Now, more and more competitive swimmers are continuing well beyond their university years. Clearly, better training regimens have allowed today’s competitive swimmers to stay fitter longer than swimmers of the past.

Young: Not necessarily. No one has the time to both be a competitive swimmer and hold an outside job. But unlike in the past, today’s competitive swimmers can make a living at their sport.

Summarize Argument: Counter-Position
Warner hypothesizes that better training regimens are the explanation for why more and more competitive swimmers are continuing to compete long beyond their university years.
Young proposes a different hypothesis for the increased longetivity of competitive swimming careers. Before, swimmers couldn’t make a living at their sport, so had to quit to get a job. But now, swimmers can make a living at their sport.

Describe Method of Reasoning
Young proposes an alternative explanation for the longetivity of competitive swimming careers.

A
attempting to demonstrate that the evidence Warner advances actually undermines Warner’s conclusion
Warner’s evidence doesn’t undermine his own conclusion. Young simply presents a different explanation that Warner doesn’t consider.
B
presenting a counterexample in order to weaken the evidence offered in support of Warner’s conclusion
Warner doesn’t actually offer any evidence in favor of his hypothesis. In addition, Young doesn’t present an example of competitive swimmers who don’t have better training regimens or whose better training regimens don’t allow them to stay fitter for a longer time.
C
arguing that a condition that Warner takes to be sufficient to account for a phenomenon is necessary but not sufficient
Young doesn’t claim that anything is necessary in order to explain the increased longevitiy of competitive swimmers. He simply presents a different hypothesis.
D
maintaining that the evidence presented in support of Warner’s conclusion presupposes the truth of that conclusion
Young doesn’t accuse warner of using circular reasoning (where the conclusion assumes the truth of the premise).
E
offering an alternative to Warner’s explanation of a certain phenomenon
Young offers an alternative explanation for the increased longevity of competitive swimmers. Rather than being a result of better training, it might be due to more swimmers being able to make a living as a swimmer nowadays.

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