LR Question 3 Explanation, by LSATHacks
QUESTION TEXT: A person reading a new book for pleasure is like a…
QUESTION TYPE: Strengthen
CONCLUSION: You should read fewer books and spend more time on them, rather than reading many books quickly.
REASONING: You read books for pleasure in order to broaden your understanding, rather than to acquire information. This makes you like a tourist, and tourists benefit from visiting fewer places, for more time.
ANALYSIS: This is an argument by analogy. The author wants to show that the conclusion is correct because reading is like tourism.
There’s a problem. The author hasn’t proven that his tourist analogy is correct. We don’t know that you learn more by spending more time in a place.
It’s possible you learn the most about a place in the first couple of days, and you can maximize learning by quickly moving from place to place. The right answer shows that you do in fact learn the most by staying in one area.
I didn’t figure this question out until I skimmed the answers. I noticed they all talked about tourists. So I reread the analogy and only then noticed that the argument hadn’t proven it’s point.
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- That’s nice. This doesn’t tell us whether tourists learn more if they linger.
- CORRECT. This tells us that tourists will maximize learning only if they linger.
- So? This mixes the two situations. The author didn’t propose learning about places by reading about them. They mentioned tourists who visit places – tourism was an analogy.
- This doesn’t tell us whether tourists learn more by staying longer.
- This doesn’t tell us what is the best way to learn while traveling.
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