LSAT 3 | Section 4 | Logical Reasoning: Q9

LR Question 9 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: An easy willingness to tell funny stories or jokes about…

QUESTION TYPE: Most Strongly Supported

ANALYSIS: There’s one main sufficient necessary relationship in this question. If you’re willing to tell funny stories about yourself you are self confident.

The contrapositive is: If you’re not self confident you’re not willing to tell funny stories about yourself.

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1. CORRECT. This is the contrapositive of our main premise.
2. They might tell stories about others too. We don’t know anything about that at all.
3. We don’t know why self-confident people tell stories.
4. We don’t know if people would rather tell a story or listen. It probably depends on the person.
5. We don’t know. Lots of people tell stories to mock others.

Recap: The question begins with “An easy willingness to tell funny stories or jokes about”. It is a Most Strongly Supported question. Learn how to master LSAT MSS questions on the LSAT Logical Reasoning question types page.