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ID: LSAT-LR-094
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Weaken the Argument
Difficulty level: Easy

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Survey director: Our dialect atlas recorded from interviews in every village of the region which of some eighty distinctive local forms were in use there. The present survey has repeated it in the same villages, in the same season, with the same questionnaire, and by fieldworkers trained together. The forms now turn up in far fewer villages than the atlas recorded. They are disappearing from the region faster than any of us expected.

Which one of the following, if true, most weakens the survey director's argument?

AThe atlas printed maps for only thirty of the eighty forms, those whose use varied most sharply from village to village, and the present survey reproduces the same thirty maps.

BIn a neighbouring region surveyed on the same pattern at the same two dates, the local forms turned up in about as many villages on both occasions.

CWhere the forms do still turn up, the present survey found them used by a larger share of the speakers interviewed than the atlas recorded.

DIn three villages the interview was cut short, and half the questionnaire was never put to the speaker.

EThe speaker interviewed in each village was this time the youngest adult available, not the oldest, and the forms have never been common among younger speakers.

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