June 1993 LSAT Section 3 Question 22

The author of the passage implies that probate records as a source of information about wealth in nineteenth–century ...

Williamg on August 9, 2022

Why D instead of B?

I struggled between these two answers, eventually settling on B because the author seems to view probate records as ambiguous and incomplete rather than 'revealing'. Nor does the author seem to mention difficulty in interpretation, so why is D correct? Thank you in advance

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Ellisw23 on April 4 at 12:03AM

Same, why d and not b?

Emil-Kunkin on April 8 at 02:17AM

The difference between the is that B describes the probate records as clearly not useful, while D describes them as useful but imperfect. The latter is far closest to how the author treats them. Given that R's study is based entirely on them, and the author is broadly positive with some reservations about the study, she surely cannot think that it's Methology is ambiguous and outdated.