LSAT 131 | Section 3 | Logical Reasoning: Q6

LR Question 6 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: A recent magazine editorial criticizes psychologists for

QUESTION TYPE: Principle – Parallel

CONCLUSION: The editorial is unfair.

REASONING: There’s no technology that can detect the order in which brain areas activate.

ANALYSIS: The magazine editorial criticizes psychologists for not trying to detect order. The author’s defense is based on the principle that it’s pointless to try when success is impossible. (Since no tech exists)

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1. This shows that there’s good reason to use fewer layers. To parallel this, it should have said “it’s impossible to use more layers.”
2. CORRECT. The defense here is that it’s impossible to supply the nation using fusion power. That’s the same technical-impossibility defense the author used in the stimulus.
3. This just shows there is a tradeoff between no-radiation and cost. There’s no technical impossibility in this argument.
4. This just shows there is a tradeoff between computer technology and other subjects. It doesn’t say it’s technically impossible to add computer technology as a subject.
5. This makes the case that economic theory is sometimes inappropriate to use. It should have said that economic theory is sometimes impossible to use.