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25. All of the best comedians have had unhappy childhoods. Yet, many people who have had happy childhoods are good comedians, and some good comedians who have had miserably unhappy childhoods are happy adults.

If the statements in the passage are true, which one of the following CANNOT be true?

(A) The proportion of good comedians who had unhappy childhoods is greater than the proportion of the best comedians who did.

(B) Some good comedians have had unhappy childhoods and are unhappy adults.

(C) Most of the best comedians are happy adults.

(D) More good comedians have had unhappy childhoods than have had happy childhoods.

(E) The proportion of comedians who are happy adults is higher than the proportion who are unhappy adults.

对于C选项，我不能够接受的是“MOST”明显的和some不是一个修饰级别的，所以当时我认为C是错误的。请问这样理解对吗？谢谢XDJM

首先这道题目要求选“can not be true”，就是绝对错误项；C项这里尽管用了“most”，但是还是有正确的可能性，所以不能选。

其次所有LSAT都是选best answer。有时候某项是不是该选光看其本身是没有意义的，应该跟其它所有选项相比较来作选择最接近题目要求的。

另外，这题答案是A吗？

I think the correct choice is A.

You are right in saying "most" and "some" show different degree of certainty. But, in this question, "some" and "most" don't refer to the same group of people. "Some" only refers to "good comedians who have had miserably unhappy childhoods". But how about the good comedians who haven't had miserably unhappy childhoods? They can still be happy adults.

Another approach to this problem is to pay attention to "good" and "best". If he is a best comedian, he must be a good comedian, but not vice versa. The last sentence only states that "some good comedians who have had miserably unhappy childhoods are happy adults", we cannot conclude from this statement that "some BEST comedians who have had miserably unhappy childhoods are happy adults".

A is clearly the choice because the proportion of the best comedians who had unhappy childhood is 100 percent. Nothing can be greater than that.