Logical Reasoning

PT144 · S3 · Q5 Most people who have taken

A free, expert breakdown of this official LSAT Logical Reasoning question.

  • Save & drill this skill — build targeted practice sets from questions like this one

  • Video walkthroughs — watch every question solved step by step

  • 81 official LSATs — as questions, timed sections & full-length tests

Start practicing free

Most people who have taken a seminar for building organizational skills in the workplace have indeed become more organized as a result; however, despite having become more organized, few have become any more efficient.

Given that ...

Most people who take a seminar for building organizational skills do become more organized.

How can it be that ...

Most of them don't become any more efficient.

Evaluate / Goal

How can someone be more organized but still just as efficient as before? Well what do we mean by organized and efficient?

Organizational skills in the workplace might mean stuff like keeping a detailed calendar, clearing our your inbox, taking notes during meetings.

Efficiency, meanwhile, is usually a measurement of how much work is accomplished for a given unit of time.

Maybe the answer will just be something like, .

5.

Which one of the following, if true, would most help to resolve the apparent discrepancy described above?

  1. Some of the people who

    Reinforces Paradox Too Weak: Some

    The work "some" is almost never correct on Strengthen, Weaken, or Paradox, because some means 'at least one'. An answer that only offers one data point doesn't have much impact (usually). We're trying to explain why there was a disconnect between organization and efficiency for the people who took these seminars. Their organization improved but their efficiency didn't. This answer reinforces the disconnect from the opposite direction: some people improve their efficiency even though they aren't organized. But we still don't have an explanation for why these things are disconnected. We're just saying twice that they are disconnected. And it's only one data point.

    11% picked this

  2. Most people whose organizational skills

    No Impact

    This is telling us about people who didn't take the seminar, whereas we need to explain why the people who did take the seminar failed to increase their efficiency, even though they boosted their organizational skills.

    1% picked this

  3. Most seminars for building organizational

    No Impact

    For this answer to do the job, we would need to be able to argue that "because they're in management training, being more organized doesn't make them more efficient." Why would that be? Is there some common sense link from "management training" to "being organized doesn't make you more efficient"?

    1% picked this

  4. Most people who have taken

    No Impact

    This answer is very similar to (B). (B) told us that people who are already decent at organizing generally don't go to these seminars, and (D) tell us that most people who take these seminars are not yet decent at organizing. Regardless of what their starting points were, compared to an average person, we know that the seminar improved their organization, and we want to know why that didn't come with a boost of efficiency too.

    6% picked this

  5. Correct

    Most people who have taken

    Why this is right

    This matches our prediction. For these people who took the seminar, their organization went up, but since they expended a great amount of time organizing, whatever extra efficiency being organized provided was offset by all the extra time it took to get organized. Maybe it used to take them 4 hours to do job X. The seminar showed them that when they're organized, that job only takes 3 hours. Unfortunately, getting organized takes 1 hour, so they're just as efficient now as they were before (it still takes 4 hours to do the job).

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

    81% picked this

Continue the review in LSAT Lab

Save this question, watch the video walkthrough, and drill similar questions in your LSAT Lab account.

Save and practice this skill
LSAT Lab

Turn this review into a targeted study plan.

Save this question, drill more like it, watch the video walkthrough, and track your progress in your LSAT Lab account.

Start practicing free