Exam LSAT Section 1 Logical Reasoning topic 1 question 111 discussion

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Question #: 111
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In the decade from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, large corporations were rocked by mergers, reengineering, and downsizing. These events significantly undermined employees' job security. Surprisingly, however, employees' perception of their own job security hardly changed over that period. Fifty-eight percent of employees surveyed in 1984 and 55 percent surveyed in 1994 stated that their own jobs were very secure.
Each of the following contributes to an explanation of the surprising survey results described above EXCEPT:

A. A large number of the people in both surveys work in small companies that were not affected by mergers, reengineering, and downsizing.
B. Employees who feel secure in their jobs tend to think that the jobs of others are secure.
C. The corporate downsizing that took place during this period had been widely anticipated for several years before the mid-1980s.
D. Most of the major downsizing during this period was completed within a year after the first survey.
E. In the mid-1990s, people were generally more optimistic about their lives, even in the face of hardship, than they were a decade before.

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️
The question stem tells us that were looking to explain surprising survey results. This just means that we have to resolve the paradox. So you should have first identified the paradox: even though massive downsizing occurred from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s, which the author tells us undermined employees job security, results from surveys taken in 1984 and 1994 asking employees about their job security were surprisingly similar. The reason this is surprising is that we would expect the workers in 1994 to feel much less secure, having experienced so many mergers, layoffs, etc. All of the incorrect answer choices will help to explain how the results could be similar. The one that doesnt is B. How the employees feel about the jobs of others is irrelevant. The argument concerns ones confidence in ones own job security. B. is therefore correct.

by [deleted] at March 9, 2025, 1:26 p.m.

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