LSAT Question Explanation
PT 108, Section 2, Question 17
Most Strongly SupportedExplanation
The findings of this study are somewhat odd. The two groups were asked similar questions involving if they had ever woken up feeling paralyzed, but the questions asked to the first group had more detail/context about what may have accompanied the feeling of being paralyzed. More people from the first group then responded that they had experienced waking up feeling paralyzed.
It seems like adding context/detail when asking questions may prompt people's memory.
Answer choices
We have no way of knowing if sensing a strange presence is what caused people to feel paralyzed. Just that sometimes the two things may happen at the same time (they're correlated).
The second group wasn't asked about a strange presence so we have no idea if people from that group have experienced the phenomenon. Not to mention that people from both groups could be misremembering or lying.
It's possible that the 60% who answered "no" just didn't feel paralyzed. We don't know specifically if they had ever experienced a strange presence.
There's no indication that any respondents gave conflicting reports.
This is supported. It's odd that the "yes" responses would diverge by such a large amount. It seems that the accompanying circumstance in the question asked to the first group (the strange presence) elicited more "yes" responses.