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Complete Question Explanation
(See the complete passage discussion here: lsat/viewtopic.php?t=13649)
The correct answer choice is (D)
This choice requires an understanding of the different motivations that the authors had for referencing the study conducted by Solnick and Hemenway. The first author presented the results of the study in order to support the idea of rivalry as an explanation for the drive to acquire greater relative prosperity. The author of the second passage presents this perspective in order to then refute it.
Answer choice (A): This choice makes two claims and is wrong on both counts. It is the second author, not the first, who presents the study to be argued against, and the second author does not go on to provide additional evidence for the view.
Answer choice (B): This is an Opposite Answer; it is the second author who presents the study to argue against, and the first author who presents it as supporting evidence.
Answer choice (C): The first part of this choice is accurate, as discussed above, but the second is not, as no additional evidence for the view is provided by the second author.
Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice. As prephrased above, the first author presents the study as an example of the rivalry phenomenon, to explain why people want to acquire more than their neighbors. The second author presents it as a point of discussion (and goes on to refute it).
Answer choice (E): Many students found this choice appealing, but the first author presents the study as evidence of the rivalry phenomenon; it is not the main topic of the first passage, so this cannot be the right answer choice.
(See the complete passage discussion here: lsat/viewtopic.php?t=13649)
The correct answer choice is (D)
This choice requires an understanding of the different motivations that the authors had for referencing the study conducted by Solnick and Hemenway. The first author presented the results of the study in order to support the idea of rivalry as an explanation for the drive to acquire greater relative prosperity. The author of the second passage presents this perspective in order to then refute it.
Answer choice (A): This choice makes two claims and is wrong on both counts. It is the second author, not the first, who presents the study to be argued against, and the second author does not go on to provide additional evidence for the view.
Answer choice (B): This is an Opposite Answer; it is the second author who presents the study to argue against, and the first author who presents it as supporting evidence.
Answer choice (C): The first part of this choice is accurate, as discussed above, but the second is not, as no additional evidence for the view is provided by the second author.
Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice. As prephrased above, the first author presents the study as an example of the rivalry phenomenon, to explain why people want to acquire more than their neighbors. The second author presents it as a point of discussion (and goes on to refute it).
Answer choice (E): Many students found this choice appealing, but the first author presents the study as evidence of the rivalry phenomenon; it is not the main topic of the first passage, so this cannot be the right answer choice.
