People are not happy unless

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong: can't achieve any4% picked this

   People who realize that others could fill their occupational roles as ably as they do themselves cannot achieve

   It's way too strong to say that people who feel replaceable at work can't achieve any happiness in their lives. This paragraph left plenty of room for such people to feel needed within their circle of family and friends, and thus room for them to achieve some happiness.

   4%
2. B

   Out of Scope: undermines importance2% picked this

   The nature of modern society actually undermines the importance of family life to

   The passage doesn't say anything about modern society having a causal relationship on how important family life is to happiness. If anything, it sounds like "since most people can't feel needed/happy at their jobs, family and friends are more important than ever when it comes to happiness".

   2%
3. C

   Too Strong: most are happy18% picked this

   Most people in modern society are happy in their private lives even if they are not

   We know most people aren't happy in their professional lives. We have no way to support that most people are happy in their personal lives. In fact, we have no way at all to prove that someone is happy. We only have a rule that allows us to prove that someone is NOT happy. "If they don't feel needed, they won't feel happy" That doesn't mean that, "if you do feel needed, you will feel happy" (that's an illegal negation). And even if we knew that, this answer would also require us knowing that most people feel needed in their private lives (we know it's possible to feel needed in your private life, but we don't know that most people do feel needed).

   18%
4. D

   Out of Scope: appreciate jobs1% picked this

   A majority of people in modern society do not appreciate having the jobs that

   Nothing in the passage talks about whether or not people appreciate having their jobs. Perhaps LSAC was trying to fool people who translated that last claim into their brains as, "most people don't feel appreciated at their jobs".

   1%
5. E

   Correct75% picked this

   Fewer than a majority of people in modern society can find happiness outside the sphere

   Why this is right

   This is saying that most people in modern society can't be happy outside their sphere of family / friends, which we can definitely derive from the paragraph. The paragraph says that "in modern society, most people only feel needed within the sphere of family and friends". And it says that "in order to be happy you have to feel needed". So we can combine those to derive that "in modern society, most people can only feel happy within their sphere of family and friends". Most A's are B is the same as Few A's are ~B. Thus can derive that, "in modern society, few people can feel happy outside their sphere of family and friends".

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

   75%