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ID: LSAT-LR-027
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Flaw in the Reasoning
Difficulty level: Easy

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Critic: The prize jury cannot have read all sixty submitted novels. Each juror was given the list in January and the prize was announced in May, seventeen weeks later, and reading sixty novels properly takes at least six months. The jury published a shortlist of six in March and named the winner from it. So the prize was not awarded on merit.

The reasoning above is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it

Aconfuses what the jury was capable of doing in the seventeen weeks it had with what the jury in fact did with that time

Btakes for granted that the sixty submissions were of comparable length, so that a single six-month estimate can stand for the time needed to read the whole field

Cconcludes that the prize was awarded unfairly from the fact that it was awarded quickly, the winner being named only seventeen weeks after the list went out

Dassumes that a prize cannot be awarded on merit unless every juror has read every submission in full

Erelies on an estimate of how long reading sixty novels properly takes without offering anything in support of it

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