LSAT 136 | Section 2 | Logical Reasoning: Q9

LR Question 9 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: In a party game, one person leaves the room with the…

QUESTION TYPE: Principle

FACTS:

1. Someone is told they must guess what a dream was about by asking a group yes or no questions.
2. There is no dream, but the group uses a rule to decide how to answer.
3. The questioner often constructs a coherent dream narrative.

ANALYSIS: It sounds like the questioner is seeing things that aren’t there. Because they’ve been told the group is describing a dream, the questioner imagines the answer mean something. The questioner invents a dream from the group’s responses.

It’s like how if a trusted friend describes a stranger as intelligent, you will assume they are intelligent unless strong evidence convinces you they aren’t. Your brain will interpret the stranger’s actions in a way that makes them seem smart.

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1. CORRECT. This makes sense. The questioner assumes that there is a dream with order. So this causes them to see order in the answers and invent their own story.
2. Actually, the questioner did reach a false understanding of the group’s answers.
3. There was no dream in the stimulus. That was a lie to deceive the questioner.
4. Same as C.
5. The questioner isn’t explaining his own behavior. He’s interpreting the group’s answers.