LSAT 103 | Section 3 | Logical Reasoning: Q11

LR Question 11 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Linsey has been judged to be a bad songwriter simply because her…

QUESTION TYPE: Necessary Assumption

CONCLUSION: It’s unfair to say Linsey is a bad songwriter, just because her lyrics are disjointed and subjective.

REASONING: Many novelists write disjointed and subjective books. People think these novelists are good.

ANALYSIS: Are song writers and novelists comparable? I have no idea if we can hold them to the same standards.

The author assumes we can use novelists to judge song-writers.

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1. CORRECT. If this isn’t true, then it’s irrelevant to compare song-writers to novelists.
2. First, we already know that many people do like the style of these modern authors. Second, “some” is an impossibly vague word. It could mean two readers, or two million.
3. So…? No one even mentioned narrative structure, and whether it is important for song-writers. (This answer choice implies that disjointed lyrics don’t automatically lead to an unstructured narrative).
4. No one mentioned other written works. This is irrelevant.
5. The author never said Linsey’s songs are good. They just said that it’s unfair to judge them as being bad because of the lyrics.
    
   Even if it is better to judge a song on its form, it may still be ok to judge a song by its lyrics.

Recap: The question begins with “Linsey has been judged to be a bad songwriter simply because her”. It is a Necessary Assumption question. Learn how to master LSAT Necessary questions on the LSAT Logical Reasoning question types page.