June 1995 LSAT
Section 2
Question 3
Emil-Kunkin on June 23 at 06:30PM
I wouldn't exactly say that, but I would phrase it as since we are trying to support the idea that X causes Y, showing that many people who lack Y also lack X helps show this. This is because we have a correlation because the presence of X and Y, but that could be purely coincidental. The fact that one thing is absent when another thing is also absent is not useful on its own, but it can rule out the possibility that a supposed correlation between the presence of those two things is spurious.