PT 56, S2, Q5 - Chinh: Television producers should not pay

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Question Type: Identify a Flaw

Chinh compares TV producers and the viewing public to great painters and museum-goers. Lana says TV producers are more like CEOs than artists. Both parties utilize an analogy to make their argument, which is quite common on the LSAT. Lana disagrees with Chinh’s analogy and offers her own, thus she clearly views Chinh’s analogy as incorrect, or flawed, as (E) indicates.

(A) suggests that Chinh’s argument is circular, and this sort of answer is almost never the correct one. Circular arguments are very rare and easily spotted ("money is the root of all evil because all evil can be traced back to money").
(B) does not apply to this argument. Sampling flaws appear on the LSAT from time to time, and they, like circular arguments, are more obvious ("most high-schoolers don’t like burgers, because a majority of the freshman class at Happy Hippy boarding school does not like burgers).
(C) is wrong because the argument is about neither causes and effects nor intention.
(D) is an attractive answer. This is one possible flaw in Chinh’s argument, but we are asked to identify the flaw that Lana addresses, which is not this one.