LSAT 35, Logical Reasoning I, Q20, LSATHacks

QUESTION TEXT: Columnist: Almost anyone can be an expert,…

QUESTION TYPE: Sufficient Assumption 

CONCLUSION: Almost anyone can be an expert. 

REASONING: There are no official rules for being an expert. Anyone is an expert if they can convince some people that they have qualifications in an area.

ANALYSIS: We don’t know if almost anyone can actually convince people of their expertise. If they could then this would be a good argument.

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1. CORRECT. If this is true, then those people (“almost anyone”) can be experts. 
2. The conclusion is that almost anyone can be an expert. It doesn’t matter what people can do once they are experts.
3. This would weaken the argument that almost anyone can be an expert. Not everyone has qualifications.
4. This doesn’t even have to be true, based on the stimulus. Convincing people was a sufficient condition but not a necessary condition. This doesn’t help show that almost anybody can be an expert. 
5. “Some” people could be as few as 2-3. This doesn’t let us conclude that almost anyone can become an expert. 

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