Correct Outcome Means Correct Answer
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
- Evidence1
Example wrong choices
22240_sailing-school · EVIDENCE · Choice BYes, since the expert's opinion is not based on matters within his personal knowledge.
Why it's attractive
This answer imports the lay-witness rule into expert testimony.
Why it's wrong
This answer imports the lay-witness rule into expert testimony.
22240_sailing-school · EVIDENCE · Choice CNo, since an expert's testimony may be based on observations made in the courtroom.
Why it's attractive
This choice gives a reason the stem does not use as the foundation for the opinion.
Why it's wrong
This choice gives a reason the stem does not use as the foundation for the opinion.
22240_sailing-school · EVIDENCE · Choice DYes, since the expert's opinion is based on matters not in evidence.
Why it's attractive
This answer sounds lawyerly because it attacks the foundation of the expert's opinion.
Why it's wrong
This answer sounds lawyerly because it attacks the foundation of the expert's opinion.
Practice the questions that use this trap as a distractor and get full Wrong Answer Forensics on submit.
Practice questions using this trap →