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ID: LSAT-LR-37
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topics: Disagreement; Point at Issue
Difficulty level: Hard

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Elsa: For any discipline to count as genuine sports science, it must ground its findings exclusively in quantifiable performance data. Because mental focus is an entirely subjective state, mindfulness-based training programs—which depend on athletes' introspective reports—cannot be measured objectively and therefore cannot qualify as scientific.

Raymond: Exercise physiology labs studying high-intensity interval training routinely record athletes' ratings of perceived exertion—a self-reported measure of how hard the workout feels. Yet exercise physiology is universally regarded as sports science.

Elsa's and Raymond's statements provide the strongest support for concluding that they disagree over which one of the following?

AWhether mental focus is an entirely subjective state.

BWhether exercise physiology should be classified as a branch of sports science.

CWhether a discipline can be considered scientific if it relies, even in part, on participants' subjective self-reports.

DWhether mindfulness training is effective at improving athletic performance.

EWhether the presence of quantifiable performance data is sufficient, by itself, to make a training program scientific.

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