Anchor Assisted Decision
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- Contracts1
Example wrong choices
14472_lydias_lantern_wall · CONTRACTS · Choice ABarnabas, because a contract to build goods using technology under development imposes only a duty on the builder to use its best efforts to achieve the result contracted for.
Why it's attractive
The answer uses 'only' to reduce a delivery promise into best efforts without contract language doing that.
Why it's wrong
The answer uses 'only' to reduce a delivery promise into best efforts without contract language doing that.
14472_lydias_lantern_wall · CONTRACTS · Choice CBarnabas, because its performance of the contract was objectively impossible.
Why it's attractive
It answers whether the technology failed, but not who bore the risk of that failure.
Why it's wrong
It answers whether the technology failed, but not who bore the risk of that failure.
14472_lydias_lantern_wall · CONTRACTS · Choice DLydia, because the law of impossibility does not apply to merchants under the applicable law.
Why it's attractive
The answer gives a categorical rule about merchants; that must be checked against the anchor.
Why it's wrong
The answer gives a categorical rule about merchants; that must be checked against the anchor.
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