June 2017 LSAT Section 1 Question 12
According to the passage, one's gaining greater expertise in a field appears to result in
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Grace on November 18, 2018
I had the same question - thank you!
Jacob on November 18, 2018
This is a subtle point, and thus a difficult question. But notice exactly what answer C is saying: that one’s gaining greater expertise in a field appears to result in “an increased tendency to ignore one’s own errors in judgment within that field.â€That is not quite what the passage is saying. The key can be found in lines 35-38. Those lines say, “we become so expert in making incredibly fast and introspective inferences about our thinking that we fail to notice that we are making them.â€
The key point is that expertise results in a failure to recognize that one is making inferences — not a tendency to ignore one’s own errors in judgment! Like I said, it is a subtle difference, but that is why answer C is incorrect.
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