February 1992 LSAT Section 1 Question 23

When 100 people who have not used cocaine are tested for cocaine use, on average only 5 will test positive. By contr...

Mazen on September 23, 2022

An alternative to the correct answer

Hi Could the LSAT writers have written the following alternative to the correct answer, "it fails to account for the proportion of the population that have NOT used cocaine"? Thank you Mazen

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Emil-Kunkin on November 16, 2022

I think so. Since this is a binary choice, the percent who have and the percent who have not will always add up to 1.