October 2010 LSAT Section 1 Question 11

The passage provides the strongest support for inferring that Lessing holds which one of the following views?

Rosibeth23 on July 4, 2020

Question #3

I got the answer correct for this question, but not because of "overlooking counter evidence." I saw percentages so I immediately started thinking about an erroneous jump between percentages and amounts. So wouldn't this be a "percentage v. amount" ?

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Skylar on July 5, 2020

@Rosibeth23, happy to help!

Careful- it is good to be cautious but we cannot assume that there is a "percentage v. amount" flaw just because we see percentages mentioned. The math is correct here, so although there are percentages included in the reasoning, there is no percentage-related flaw. Instead, when we evaluate the passage as a whole, we see that the flaw is overlooking counterevidence.

Does that make sense? Please let us know if you have any other questions!

IngridBrazil on February 20, 2021

I have a question related to that. When I go through the "33 Fallacies" book, I didn't really see the"overlooking counterevidence" flaw in there. I assume it's a different terminology but can't really figure out which fallacy or "family" this one would fall into...