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LSAT Explanations » LSAT Preptest 30 » Logical Reasoning 2 » Question 23

LSAT 30, Logical Reasoning II, Q23, LSATHacks

LSAT 30 Explanations

LR Question 23 Explanation, by LSATHacks

QUESTION TEXT: When investigators discovered that the director of…

QUESTION TYPE: Principle – Strengthen

CONCLUSION: The investigators claimed that the journalists were also to blame, along with the director.

REASONING: The director admitted they lied about the charity’s finances. Yet the journalists inflated the charity’s reputation by repeating as fact the numbers the director gave them.

ANALYSIS: We need some principle that tell us journalists must do more than simply repeat facts. 

Most of the wrong answers apply to the director’s actions. We’re trying to blame the journalists.

___________

  1. This would apply to the director. We’re trying to blame the journalists.
  2. The journalists did not knowingly aid the director. They just didn’t try very hard.
  3. CORRECT. The journalists did present the story as factual and they didn’t try very hard to see if the story was true. 
  4. This would apply to the director. The journalists didn’t lie.
  5. This also applies to the director.

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  1. MemberAden says

    March 30, 2021 at 3:57 pm

    Why is answer choice C correct?? The answer choice says no less responsible “than anyone else.” How do we know “than anyone else?” Maybe only as much as the director!

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    • TutorRosalie (LSATHacks) says

      April 1, 2021 at 10:01 am

      So “anyone who presents as factual a story” refers to the journalists, who presented the director’s claims as factual. The stimulus said that these journalists were as guilty as the director, so that’s why the journalists are “no less responsible…than anyone else (the director)”.

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      • MemberAden says

        April 6, 2021 at 9:40 pm

        I know, but I am asking why “anyone else” is necessarily referring to the director. Maybe it is refering to a potential 3rd party who would really be more responsible than the director, in which there would be no way to know from the stimulus that the journalist would be just as responsible as that 3rd party.

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        • TutorRosalie (LSATHacks) says

          April 7, 2021 at 12:06 pm

          Yes “anyone else” could refer to third parties, as well as the director. The director also counts as “anyone” and since the stimulus only gives us two parties, the director and the journalists, we are able to align this situation with principle C. For principle questions, you don’t need to overthink the situation Ex. there’s a third party. As long as it justifies the situation in the stimulus, then it’s right.

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