LSAT 2 | Section 4 | Logical Reasoning: Q11

LR Question 11 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Every week, the programming office at an FM radio station…

QUESTION TYPE: Flawed Reasoning

CONCLUSION: Some listeners must like the movie review segment.

REASONING: The station manager bases his conclusion on the fact that some listeners have written in to say they do not like the movie review segment.

ANALYSIS: There is a lot of fluff in this stimulus. The main point is that the station manager has made an unfounded assumption. If someone tells us they hate something that doesn’t allow us to assume that some other people must have liked that thing. That’s an absurd assumption to make.

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1. It sounds like the station manager was assuming that more people write letters of criticism than praise.
2. CORRECT. This is it. He would need some actual evidence to conclude that some people liked it. Maybe it was the worst movie review segment in the history of radio.
3. This is irrelevant. All of the letters regarding the movie review segment were unfavorable.
4. As far as we know there could be no relation between the movie review segment and the news. This is irrelevant.
5. Fifty letters might also be too small a sample. His real flaw was not verifying that some people actually liked the segment.

Recap: The question begins with “Every week, the programming office at an FM radio station”. It is a Flawed Reasoning question. Learn how to master LSAT Flaw questions on the LSAT Logical Reasoning question types page.