September 2016 LSAT Section 1 Question 18
A large survey of scientists found that almost all accept Wang's Law, and almost all know the results of the Brown-Ei...
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Skylar on December 29, 2019
@kristinsmith04, happy to help.First of all, it's great that you're taking caution to distinguish between most and some - this is an important concept and you seem to have a solid understanding of it.
The key here is that the passage does not say "most" scientists but instead says "almost all" scientists. These two phrases mean different things, and "almost all" accounts for more than "most" does. Imagine that we have 20 scientists and exactly 11 of them accept Wang's Law. We could accurately say that most of the scientists accept it, but we could not accurately say that almost all of the scientists accept it.
Working with "almost all" leaves significantly more room for overlap, which allows us to make a "most" conclusion. Therefore, (B) is unnecessary.
Does that make sense? Let us know if you have any other questions and best of luck with your studies!
on January 2, 2020
You're the best - thx!
Ravi on February 7, 2020
@kristinsmith04, let us know if you have any other questions!