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Here's a Reading Comprehension question from the October 2004 LSAT.
This is something of an "evidence" question, so let's look back at the passage. In lines 40-47, we learn that in the past, construction was done by only a few tradesman but that later on, it became the work of numerous subcontractors. As a result, more inaccuracy was introduced into the building process, the passage tells us.
We can't pre-phrase an exact answer here since any number of situations might be analogous to this one, but we can pre-phrase what we're looking for. We want a situation that involves something like "a more fragmented production process introducing more error into production." We see right away that A fits well, since the situation is of a production process becoming less accurate as it is more fragmented. Let's look through the other choices quickly.
A) Correct. On an assembly line, more people are involved, and quality goes down. This is precisely analogous to the building example.
B) Out of scope. This choice mentions the change from hand production to automation, not the segmenting of the production process. The original situation regarding building wasn't about automation, it was about fragmentation of the production process (more people being involved). So, it isn't analogous.
C) Wrong for the exact same reason as B.
D) Wrong for the same reason as B and C. Automation isn't the issue here, but these choices keep raising it.
E) Out of scope. The passage wasn't talking about what's more fashionable. It was saying that a more fragmented production process introduces more physical errors, like things that aren't build quite right. So, this choice doesn't provide an analogy.
Remember:
1) On evidence questions like this, be sure to look back at the passage.
2) Eliminate choices that are out of scope. In the case of a question asking about analogies, eliminate choices that don't address the same point as the original example whose analogue we are supposed to find.
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