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[bermudask8er7]

Hello,

Can someone explain why A is correct, and why C and D are incorrect? And, is the awareness and understanding of "taking into account the variable contexts in which productions are experienced" in the last sentence of the passage crucial to answering this question correctly?

Thanks

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

Honestly, not that I can see. I read through the passage again and again, and didn't see anything I thought I could say was relevant to establishing one answer choice over another.

That said, the study is about the "amount of airtime allotted" in developing nations. We can use that to reason out the most rational answer choice.

(A) would be answered by the information in the study. If the amount of airtime varied from nation to nation then the access that individuals would have would be affected.
(B) would not be answered by the information in the study. The amount of airtime would not shed light on individual viewing habits, because we don't know which shows are being aired. Nor do we know the size of the viewership for each show.
(C) wouldn't be answered by the amount of airtime allocated.
(D) wouldn't be answered by the amount of airtime allocated.
(E) is too broad a question to be answered by the information in the study in the question stem.

I wish I had something to point to in the passage, especially in light of the phrase "given the information in the passage." Hope that helps though!

[farhadshekib]

Honestly, not that I can see. I read through the passage again and again, and didn't see anything I thought I could say was relevant to establishing one answer choice over another.

That said, the study is about the "amount of airtime allotted" in developing nations. We can use that to reason out the most rational answer choice.

(A) would be answered by the information in the study. If the amount of airtime varied from nation to nation then the access that individuals would have would be affected.
(B) would not be answered by the information in the study. The amount of airtime would not shed light on individual viewing habits, because we don't know which shows are being aired. Nor do we know the size of the viewership for each show.
(C) wouldn't be answered by the amount of airtime allocated.
(D) wouldn't be answered by the amount of airtime allocated.
(E) is too broad a question to be answered by the information in the study in the question stem.

I wish I had something to point to in the passage, especially in light of the phrase "given the information in the passage." Hope that helps though!

One thing I do notice is that line 55-60 state: "[Communication researchers must engage] with the actual experience of viewers, taking into account the variable context in which productions are experienced..." .

So, if a study measured the amount of airtime allotted to imported television programming in several developing nations, this study may take into account the different contexts in which productions are experienced.

(e.g. viewers in one nation have more access to imported production than another).

To be honest, this question is really bugging me. There has to be support for this answer choice in the text. Let's try to find out where exactly where it is...

[geverett]

There is no support for it. It's just to be inferred because it's the only reasonable answer choice based on what Matt wrote above. We can't know anything about individual viewing habits based on such a broad study.

[nbayar1212]

I was initially confused about this question to but I think the key to the correct answer is trying taking into account the full scope of the study mentioned and linking that up with the most "directly relevant" answer choice.

One thing that popped out is that the study is of "several developing nations". Answer choice A seems most "directly relevant" because it poses a question about difference in access to cultural production BETWEEN these nations while answer choices B-D are all about things that we can find out about each individual nation studies.

Therefore, the full scope of the study must directly match up with not only with questions about what happens in these nations but also how these differences "differ among these nations."

[T.J.]

This question is bugging me as well. It's my first time to see a question in which you can answer it with the information given in the question stem (oh boy, that's a long stem). If so, what is the passage for? So awkward...

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

This question may seem a bit awkward, but it does sit within the framework of what RC is all about--inferences.

The question asks us to identify a question that most logically could be answered from the study described in the question stem given the scope of discussion of the information in the passage.

To answer this question, we do rely more heavily on the description of the study as it's described in the question stem than on any information actually provided in the passage. This could be an instance of the test-writer testing whether you know that there isn't information in the passage that will be helpful other than the scope of discussion.

The point of such a question could be to see if the test-taker recognizes the lack of information and moves on, or gets bogged down trying to find information that isn't there.

Hope that helps!

[ganbayou]

Does this question based on the last paragraph? Actually I do not quiet get what the last paragraph says...
Or it's completely not mentioned in the passage and we have to infer from what is discussed?

Thank you

[tommywallach]

Matt answered your question in his previous post. It's another "infer" question, but a tricky one!

-t

[ffamran.ps]

I got very hung up on the phrase in the question stem, "given the information in the passage", which I took to mean that at least something in the passage had to be used in answering the question.

(A) is clearly supported by the study described, but I could not find anything relevant in the passage.
(C) is somewhat supported by the study described, since if the study finds that imported television programming is shown on Wednesdays for 24 hours, then people would not have been able to talk about serial dramas "day-to-day" as described in the second paragraph, and that would affect the influence of domestic serial dramas.

[shirleyx]

(C) is somewhat supported by the study described, since if the study finds that imported television programming is shown on Wednesdays for 24 hours, then people would not have been able to talk about serial dramas "day-to-day" as described in the second paragraph, and that would affect the influence of domestic serial dramas.

I still don't see how (C) can be supported. We have no support of "influence" anywhere.. Even with what you just provided, where is the influence (influence meaning the power to change/effect)? IMO, we'd have to make many many assumptions, or have additional studies to support (C).

[renata.gomez]

On Blind review, I noticed why A worked. By controlling the amount of airtime allotted to imported TV, you can measure how much access the nations have in comparison to the other.

Initially I chose D because I thought you could measure the audience by how many TVs were tuned in during the times where imported TV was showing, but then I realized that just because a TV is on the channel you don't know how many people are sitting in front of the TV, thus the size of the audience remains unclear.

To explain my thought, you could have two TVs tuned on and only have 1 person watching each, so 2 people watching in total. On the other hand, you could have the same 2 tvs tuned in, but 5 people in front of each tv in the living room, for a total of 10 people in the "audience".

Does that seem to work?

Thank you!