Q12 - In a study of the relationship

[jimmy902o]

I am a hard time seeing why B is correct can someone explain? Also why is C wrong? Thanks

[bbirdwell]

First off, let's get the facts straight. And here, there's really only one essential fact:

1. high aggression occurs in both high-viewing and low-viewing children

There is one more detailed fact to support the general fact above:
2. High-acheiving, competitive, middle-class parents + not watching much tv = more aggressive than organized, child-centered parents +more tv

(A) Eliminate. We have no evidence regarding how "often" this occurs.
(B) Correct. This is exactly what fact 1 says.
(C) We have no evidence to support this. It might be the kind of answer that "sounds right," and that's exactly the kind of answer that destroys LSAT scores.

This question is testing our ability to identify inferences that we can make with near 100% certainty based on the information given. There is no evidence provided about the effects of competitive parents becoming child-centered -- we've no idea how the mix of competitiveness and child-centering will effect the kiddos.

(D) No, we don't know that this is ONLY true for child-centered parents.
(E) This is the opposite of fact 1.

[hayleychen12]

First off, let's get the facts straight. And here, there's really only one essential fact:

1. high aggression occurs in both high-viewing and low-viewing children

There is one more detailed fact to support the general fact above:
2. High-acheiving, competitive, middle-class parents + not watching much tv = more aggressive than organized, child-centered parents +more tv

(A) Eliminate. We have no evidence regarding how "often" this occurs.
(B) Correct. This is exactly what fact 1 says.
(C) We have no evidence to support this. It might be the kind of answer that "sounds right," and that's exactly the kind of answer that destroys LSAT scores.

This question is testing our ability to identify inferences that we can make with near 100% certainty based on the information given. There is no evidence provided about the effects of competitive parents becoming child-centered -- we've no idea how the mix of competitiveness and child-centering will effect the kiddos.

(D) No, we don't know that this is ONLY true for child-centered parents.
(E) This is the opposite of fact 1.

Hi!
In a inference question like this one, a lot of information in the stimulus is actually redundant. So can we say that the right answer to a Inference question does not have to connect with the whole stimulus, the right answer can be inferred from part of the stimulus, some information might just be there to confuse us?

[ohthatpatrick]

Yes.

The correct answer to any Inference question is simply whichever answer is best proven by the available facts.

But as you said, it doesn't need to use ALL the provided facts. They might give us 4 or 5 facts and the correct answer might only rely on combining fact 2 and fact 5. That's fine.

Wrong answers are wrong because something about them goes beyond the facts we have available.
Correct answers are correct because we can support them using only (some to all of) the facts available.