Logical Reasoning

PT133 · S3 · Q6 A transit company's bus

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A transit company's bus drivers are evaluated by supervisors riding with each driver.

Opposing Point

Bus drivers complain that evaluating drivers by having supervisors ride with each driver affects their performance.

Evidence

A transit company’s bus drivers are evaluated by supervisors riding with each driver.

The supervisor’s presence affects every driver’s performance.

Conclusion

Those drivers performing best with a supervisor aboard will likely also be the best drivers under normal conditions.

Evaluate

This author is assuming,

But as taking a real LSAT will remind us, everyone is affected by the stress of the real test, but those effects manifest in different ways for different people. Some people perform way worse than usual because of the anxiety caused by the stress. Other people perform way better than usual because of the adrenaline of the pressure.

The argument assumes that the influence of supervisors riding on the bus with each driver is approximately the same for each driver.

6.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

  1. There is no effective way

    Too Strong / Out of Scope

    The performance evaluations conducted by the bus company must be effective, but they need not be the only effective way to evaluate performance. Furthermore, the issue isn’t whether the bus company needs to implement this method, but rather whether this method of evaluating performance leads to those drivers performing best with a supervisor aboard also being the best drivers under normal conditions.

    3% picked this

  2. The supervisors are excellent judges

    Too Strong

    Even if the supervisors were merely adequate judges of a bus driver’s performance, the argument’s conclusion could still follow from the evidence.

    2% picked this

  3. For most bus drivers, the

    Supports a Premise

    This supports both the opposing point and the argument’s main premise.

    12% picked this

  4. Correct

    The bus drivers are each

    Why this is right

    This defends the argument from the possibility that some drivers are more negatively influenced than others. If the impact on each driver were not the same, the best performing drivers may not be the best performing drivers under normal conditions.

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

    81% picked this

  5. The bus drivers themselves are

    Out of Scope

    This has no bearing on whether the best drivers with supervisors aboard are relatively comparable to the best drivers under normal driving conditions.

    1% picked this

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