If the salaries of scientists employed by the government to work on the preservation of wetlands have increased faster than the inflation rate, I'm left wondering, "to what extent?" Without knowing the answer to this question, we would not be able to explain why government funding increas...

Can you please elaborate on the argument more? The way I initially understood it was that the decline in wheat production was due to 3 causes 1. excessive irrigation 2. lack of drainage 3.accumulation of salt in the soil However you stated " the reason wheat production went down while barley p...

Matt Sherman! Wow- that was a great explanation, thank you so much. I got this question correct, however I marked it as hard to review it. I thought it was hard because (D) states, "distinction developed" and "developed" is a broad word than can include things like examples, prin...

I think I had the same thought process.. The key, I think, is that the 10 years is an interval. Within that 10 year frame, 41 from each group died. Maybe the ones in the support group died on the 10th year and the ones in the non-support group died after the 5th? That's why (C) works- because if the...

the stimulus can be diagrammed as: (electr resis --> ball light) --> intense light + rise in air ~intense light/ ~rise in air --> (elect resis -|-> ball light) in this question, the contrapositive is considered incorrect because there could be more than one cause besides electr resis fo...

The Physics Professor states that "the instances of ball lighting I observed.." and then goes on to explain it and then goes on (via the an "incorrect" contrapositive) to categorically deny SHP causes Ball Lighting. The professor doesn't state that the ball lighting he observed a...

Well- I saw this a little differently. If a Geek sees some error in my ways, please let me know. I do not want to develop bad habits. I'll admit, that I didn't think about, "Well what about those who DON'T eat meat?" I just that the glaring problem was the statistic, and then the strong la...

Hey Noah, I believe I understand how the assumption here fits in with the conclusion. However, is it a required assumption? Sufficient? I guess this answer seems counter-intuitive because "fraud" has a bad connotation... or maybe it's because the assumption doesn't seem like it has to be a...

I have a question, (A ---> ~MR) So, the sentence, relative to this diagram, is: in no situation can we know what action is morally right... That can be adjusted to: in any situation we cannot known what action is morally right. This would usually yield: S---> ~Know Action is MR However, as you...

So, any thoughts would be awesome. Here's what's going on: there is the country called Ditrama, and there are three autonomous regions in it: Korva, Mitro, and Guadar. There is something called the federal revenue-sharing plan, that allows each region to get a share of federal revenues that is equal...

(B) is too strong. Seems like it would be good for a sufficient assumption

I dismissed (B) because the stimulus states that, "inflation is taken into account." So even if, as (B) states, "the salaries of scientists employed by the government...have increased at a rate higher than the inflation rate." the stimulus tells us this, if true, would have alrea...

The argument states that companies should use these in-store displays if they want to boost their sales. Ok. Why should they use these displays to boost their sales? Well, there's this study that states that because of time restraints, 2/3 of buyers make their buying decisions on the spot . So, conn...

So, this one really got to me- then I thought about it and I hope it helps others out too. --Also, I'm a little wary of posting after a Geek has already wrote something- however this is just even more explication that I hope is relevant! So, here is why I was confused with (C) and (E). I realized th...

I honestly never thought I'd have a forum expert directly answer questions I post on here- so, thank you so much! I did make a big assumption there, which I didn't realize until you pointed it out. I assumed that the author was speaking of cognition, in it's widest sense, as you stated. And, now tha...

Two years later... :o I'm assuming you took the LSAT. Hope you destroyed it. For everyone else: Here is how I did it. We need to keep one thing in mind, and that is that "dearth" is equivalent to "lack." Sometimes, (as in 37-4-19 where "referendum" is used to equal &quo...

So, any help would be greatly appreciated. Passage states, "Objectivist legal discourse systematically disallows the language of emotion and experience by focusing on cognition in its narrowest sense." The Q asks us which one describes the sense of "cognition" referred to in line...

Ooook. So, I got this wrong wrong at first, and that is because I also didn't see any obvious "alternative way." I ended up between (C) and (E) and reluctantly choose (C) because I didn't understand (E). Dumb, because I saw a problem with (C), which I'll explain below. So, here's how I end...

Bigtree65- I know you have probably taken the LSAT by now- but hopefully this helps others with the same problem. I chose (A) at first, as the correct answer. Let's discuss why this is incorrect (how I found it out to be): The question asks us to infer what the author thinks is true of sources consu...

I think there's also something else going on here- let me know if I'm out of bounds: The first sentence is actually more important than I thought. I thought it was awkward that (C) stated that the Flaw was that the author of the passage did not offer any alternatives to fabricating remarks (FR). But...