LSAT 3 | Section 2 | Logical Reasoning: Q11

LR Question 11 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: It is often said that people should be rewarded for…

QUESTION TYPE: Method of Reasoning

CONCLUSION: It is a bad idea to reward people in proportion to the effort they put into their work.

REASONING: This principle would provide the most reward to people who are the worst at their jobs because everything takes them longer.

ANALYSIS: This is a pretty good argument. It’s method is to show that the idea would have unwelcome results in practice.

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1. The stimulus argues against adopting the principle.
2. We aren’t given any real world examples where this principle has been adopted.
3. The stimulus does not mention what consequences had been expected to flow from adopting the principle.
4. CORRECT. Yes. If we adopted this principle we would give the most money to people who were terrible at what they did.
5. The principle could be uniformly applied and the results would be terrible.

Recap: The question begins with “It is often said that people should be rewarded for”. It is a Method of Reasoning question. Learn how to master LSAT Method of Reasoning questions on the LSAT Logical Reasoning question types page.