Tony: Few anarchists have ever

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct85% picked this

   She shows that Tony’s conclusion is questionable because Tony bases it on a comparison that inappropriately involves absolute

   Why this is right

   Keisha is showing that the public's association between anarchism and political violence may be warranted, if we look at political violence as a percentage of the underlying population, not in raw numbers. Tony's argument involved absolute numbers. Few anarchists have performed violence. Those few are vastly outnumbered by violent people from other political persuasions. Keisha's rebuttal talks about the proportion of anarchists that have committed violence, compared to the proportion of other adherents who have.

   Skill tested: Method · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   85%
2. B

   Too Strong: incompatible9% picked this

   She attempts to undermine Tony’s conclusion by introducing plausible evidence that is incompatible with the evidence Tony offers

   The words "incompatible / inconsistent" in a logical context mean "contradictory". Nothing Keisha said was contradicting evidence that Tony offered. She just wanted to express the same stats he was looking at in Relative terms, rather than Absolute terms. Almost every Method of Response question has an incorrect answer like this, that says the second person denied / contradicted the first person's evidence. We know on LSAT that when make rebuttals, we're (almost) never saying the original premises were false.

   9%
3. C

   Bad Evidence Match3% picked this

   She questions the accuracy of the claims on which Tony bases

   This is similar to (B) in that it's another one of those trap answers that says the second person tried to say the first person's evidence was false / wrong. Nothing Keisha said impugned the facts Tony presented. She accepts that the number of violent actions from anarchists are smaller in number than those from adherents of other political ideologies. She's just suggesting that we think about what % of total anarchists vs. total other-adherents those raw numbers represent.

   3%
4. D

   Bad Evidence Match1% picked this

   She presents evidence that the two groups Tony has compared have no significant

   Nothing Keisha says sound like, "Anarchists and adherents of other political ideologies have nothing important in common".

   1%
5. E

   Bad Evidence Match2% picked this

   She indicates that Tony has adopted questionable criteria for including certain people in the groups

   Nothing Keisha says addresses the "criteria Tony has adopted for including certain people".

   2%