Financial success does not guarantee

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct61% picked this

   The respondents who reported financial success were, for the most part,

   Why this is right

   This helps us believe that when they claimed to be financially successful, they weren't lyin'! It probably feels very unfamiliar to LSAT students to be strengthening by "premise boosting?", but when the evidence is a survey or sample, we can often impugn the argument by calling into question the credibility / accuracy / integrity of that survey or sample, especially when the author's entire argument is riding on that one piece of evidence. When it comes to being asked the question, "Have you achieved financial success?", it is within common sense that people might lie to themselves or others a little, to protect their ego from otherwise admitting, "No, I've been a failure."

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

   61%
2. B

   Necessary vs. Sufficient24% picked this

   Financial success was once thought to be necessary for happiness but is no longer considered

   This answer is talking about whether or not financial success is required for happiness (whether you could have happiness, but not have financial success). The argument is about whether financial success is sufficient for happiness (whether you could have financial success, but not be happy).

   24%
3. C

   Out of Scope10% picked this

   Many of the respondents who claimed not to have achieved financial success reported that they were

   This argument is about whether people who have financial success are always happy or not. This answer is about people who don't have financial success, so it's out of scope.

   10%
4. D

   Weakens, if anything3% picked this

   Many of the respondents who failed to report financial success were in

   Without knowing whether these shy financially successful people are happy or not, this answer can't really impact the argument either way. But in the sense that it makes us aware that people on this survey were not necessarily accurately reporting whether or not they had financial success, it weakens.

   3%
5. E

   Weakens, if anything1% picked this

   Most of the respondents who reported they were unhappy were in

   Without knowing whether these secretly happy people were financially successful or not, this answer can't really impact the argument either way. But in the sense that it makes us aware that people on this survey were not necessarily accurately reporting whether or not they were happy, it weakens.

   1%