September 2018 LSAT Section 2 Question 23

A gram of the artificial sweetener aspartame is much sweeter than a gram of sugar. Soft drinks that are sweetened wit...

Jabes on January 13, 2022

Choice A

How is it that A does not parallel the prompt? Both situations make the assumption that repeated exposure to a thing will necessarily result in a favorable opinion of that thing

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jakennedy on January 13, 2022

Great question.

The stimulus has two flaws.

1 Just because aspartame is sweeter than sugar does not mean that drinks sweetened by aspartame are sweeter than drinks sweetened by sugar.

2 They assume that people who regularly consume beverages sweetened by aspartame will develop preferences for extremely sweet products

I believe that you are suggesting that answer choice A contains that second flaw.

The problem with A is that it actually does not contain anything about repeated exposure. Rather, it says if you dislike a new food you will eventually develop a preference for it, presumably even if you never eat it. This is still flawed, but it is based on time ("eventually develop a preference”) as opposed to repeated exposure (“regularly drink soft drinks”).

Hope this helps!