LSAT Food Aversion

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LSAT Food Aversion

by mundasingh123 » Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:23 am
9. Someone who gets sick from eating a meal will often
develop a strong distaste for the one food in the meal
that had the most distinctive flavor, whether or not that
food caused the sickness. This phenomenon explains
why children are especially likely to develop strong
aversions to some foods.
Which one of the following, if true, provides the
strongest support for the explanation?
(A) Children are more likely than adults to be given
meals composed of foods lacking especially
distinctive flavors.
(B) Children are less likely than adults to see a
connection between their health and the foods
they eat.
(C) Children tend to have more acute taste and to
become sick more often than adults do.
(D) Children typically recover more slowly than
adults do from sickness caused by food.
(E) Children are more likely than are adults to refuse
to eat unfamiliar foods.
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by prachich1987 » Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:36 am
IMO : C

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by mundasingh123 » Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:41 am
Hi Pour in with Ur Logic Ppl.
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by Target2009 » Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:10 pm
IMO - C ( Easy one)
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by mundasingh123 » Sat Jan 22, 2011 12:05 am
Target2009 wrote:IMO - C ( Easy one)
Yes Can You pls give your reasoning .
I chose E
If Children are more likely than are adults to refuse
to eat unfamiliar foods. this explains why children are more likely to develop aversion to some foods.
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by Target2009 » Sat Jan 22, 2011 12:19 am
mundasingh123 wrote:
Target2009 wrote:IMO - C ( Easy one)
Yes Can You pls give your reasoning .
I chose E
If Children are more likely than are adults to refuse
to eat unfamiliar foods. this explains why children are more likely to develop aversion to some foods.
someone who gets sick from food will often develop a strong dislike of the strongest tasting part of the meal, even if that
particular food didn't cause the illness.
This helps explain why children are "especially likely to develop strong aversions to some foods."

To strengthen this argument is to find the connection between children and the factors for getting sick, and picking out a distinctive flavor.

Choice C: does this by showing these elements to be more prevalent in children than in adults. If children are more likely than adults to get sick and better able to pick out distinctive flavors , they have a greater number of opportunities to connect eating with sickness, and even have the better taste buds to help them lay blame on certain foods.

Choice E :Whether or not children eat only familiar foods doesn't affect the argument at all. We need to deal with "distinctive tasting part of the meal"
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