June 2010 LSAT Section 1 Question 12

The government has recently adopted a policy of publishing airline statistics, including statistics about each airlin...

Shula on August 20, 2023

In (A), how do we know incomplete reports could be beneficial?

Hi there, I read all the other threads, but I'm still confused. How can we assume that incomplete reports, as mentioned in (A), could be beneficial to the public? What if the airlines intentionally make their incomplete reports very misleading? In another thread, the instructor responded that it could be beneficial b/c the airlines have never published any stats before. How can we assume that the airlines never published anything before? The passage doesn't indicate it. Thank you so much!

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Emil-Kunkin on August 24, 2023

Good question- we actually don't know if they would be beneficial, but it's a possibility that they would. We are looking for a reason why the argument here is a bad one. One reason why is that the argument wrongly assumes that incomplete reports are not potentially useful. So, it's a flaw that it ignores the fact that partial reports could be useful. We have no idea if they actually are, but we cannot rule out the possibility that they might be.

Shula on August 29, 2023

Thank you so much, Emil! That really makes sense!