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Re: Q14
Blech. It's a pretty tough question, I think, given that you can interpret (E) in a way that makes it a pretty appealing answer (although I still wouldn't have a way to get rid of (C) as an accurate answer).
If you interpret (E) to mean
"do social norms help to safeguard the incentives for creative output? do we end up getting as much creative output using social norms as we would if we had effective legal protections for intellectual property?"
then I agree that psg A discusses that from 16-26, and psg B doesn't explicitly discuss that.
But if we're just saying "What impact do social norms have on the creative output of comedians / chefs", then psg A provides answers like those in lines 34-38, and psg B provides similar answers in lines 50-64.
The impact of social norms on the creative output of chefs is that chefs are considered the owners of their recipes; they are allowed to share secrets with others without authorizing those others to pass the secret onto other parties; and they are expected to be credited for their creative output when others use it.
I think you were interpreting (E) too narrowly in the sense that psg A was worried about, "In the absence of legal protections, why don't we see creative output suffering? Social norms have the impact of safeguarding ownership of the creative output, thus we still see ample creative output."
And LSAT is apparently wording this is such a fuzzy way that they can say that psg B did discuss the impact of social norms on creative output of chefs.
Based on social norms, a chef's recipe
- cannot be copied exactly
- can only be divulged with the chef's permission
- should be credited back to the original chef, if used by someone else
If (E) said "the impact of social norms on the volume of creative output, then it would function the way I think you're seeing it.
Meanwhile, (C) is definitely discussed in psg A, lines 29-34,
whereas the enforcement mechanisms of stealing a chef's recipe are never discussed.
Hope this helps.
If you interpret (E) to mean
"do social norms help to safeguard the incentives for creative output? do we end up getting as much creative output using social norms as we would if we had effective legal protections for intellectual property?"
then I agree that psg A discusses that from 16-26, and psg B doesn't explicitly discuss that.
But if we're just saying "What impact do social norms have on the creative output of comedians / chefs", then psg A provides answers like those in lines 34-38, and psg B provides similar answers in lines 50-64.
The impact of social norms on the creative output of chefs is that chefs are considered the owners of their recipes; they are allowed to share secrets with others without authorizing those others to pass the secret onto other parties; and they are expected to be credited for their creative output when others use it.
I think you were interpreting (E) too narrowly in the sense that psg A was worried about, "In the absence of legal protections, why don't we see creative output suffering? Social norms have the impact of safeguarding ownership of the creative output, thus we still see ample creative output."
And LSAT is apparently wording this is such a fuzzy way that they can say that psg B did discuss the impact of social norms on creative output of chefs.
Based on social norms, a chef's recipe
- cannot be copied exactly
- can only be divulged with the chef's permission
- should be credited back to the original chef, if used by someone else
If (E) said "the impact of social norms on the volume of creative output, then it would function the way I think you're seeing it.
Meanwhile, (C) is definitely discussed in psg A, lines 29-34,
whereas the enforcement mechanisms of stealing a chef's recipe are never discussed.
Hope this helps.
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