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Rush, the Rams, and a Pinch of Racism: An LSAT Analysis
So I am still waiting for my LSAT score. That means that I have been wasting a large (larger, I guess I should say) amount of time on the Internet.
A couple of days ago, I came across this whole mess with Rush Limbaugh. The infamous, conservative political commentator is part of an investment group that is vying to purchase the St. Louis Rams, an NFL franchise. (Actually, I am not even sure that the Rams qualify as a CFL franchise with their play this year.)
Since the news broke, there has been a ton of news coverage and not everyone is a fan of Limbaugh joining the ranks of NFL ownership. A number of other NFL owners have spoken out against Limbaugh and the head of the players union has made it clear that the players are not in favor. Limbaugh, however, has recently stated that he is not going to exit quietly.
Here is the problem with Mr. Limbaugh. Various incidents in the past have led to some people painting him as a bit of a racist. And, well, the NFL has a lot of black players. And by a lot, I mean pretty much all of them, aside from a few corn-fed boys from Iowa (oh, and the damn Manning brothers). (more…)
Ways in which the creators of the LSAT use Delphic words, the befuddlement it creates, and strategies for combating the resulting answer choices that seem intentionally labyrinthine
After my previous post, commenter Joseph asked about “answer choices that have loaded language and it’s difficult to determine what exactly (they) mean.” These are ones where you understand what is being asked of you, and you know what the answer should look like, but then you can’t quite work out just what the hell the answer choices are saying because they look like they were written by some bearded professor who is just trying to sound pretentious. These do happen quite a bit in LR questions that ask you to describe some aspect of the argument, such as its general reasoning, locating its flaw, or identifying the purpose of a certain phrase or sentence. The difficulty often arises from the fact that you’re describing some pretty complicated stuff in pretty general terms.
For example, here is a question where the LSAT asks you to describe the flaw of the argument. (And by “LSAT” I mean me).
Whenever Johannes eats a burrito, he has diarrhea. Johannes is currently on the toilet with terrible diarrhea, so he must have had a burrito.