LSAT Question Explanation
PT 108, Section 2, Question 8
PrinciplesExplanation
This stimulus is making some odd statements. The author is claiming that someone's living a rural or urban lifestyle is determined by how often they communicate electronically, rather than whether they live in a city or in the countryside.
I'm not sure I agree with this idea, but it's an LSAT stimulus, so we just have to take the premises to be true. The main idea is that the definition of rural vs urban relies on communication frequency rather than geography.
Answer choices
This matches and is supported by what the stimulus says. The author determines who is living a rural vs urban lifestyle based on their electronic communication habits rather than where they live.
This may or may not be true, it's not supported by the stimulus. The author was concerned with defining what is a rural vs urban lifestyle, not who likes a certain type of lifestyle.
The stimulus was concerned with electronic communication specifically. People living rural lifestyles may communicate plenty, it would just be almost all in-person.
This is talking about predicting the future of technology, which is irrelevant to the stimulus. The stimulus was about how to define rural vs urban lifestyles.
We don't know where people are living. The stimulus was telling us to determine rural vs urban lifestyles based on communications habits rather than geography. It doesn't matter to the author where people live.