PrepTest 69, Section 2, Question 24
In an effort to reduce underage drinking, the Department of Health has been encouraging adolescents to take a pledge not to drink alcohol until they reach the legal age. This seems to be successful. A survey of seventeen-year-olds has found that many who do not drink report having taken a pledge to refrain from drinking, whereas almost all who drink report having never taken such a pledge.
In an effort to reduce underage drinking, the Department of Health has been encouraging adolescents to take a pledge not to drink alcohol until they reach the legal age. This seems to be successful. A survey of seventeen-year-olds has found that many who do not drink report having taken a pledge to refrain from drinking, whereas almost all who drink report having never taken such a pledge.
In an effort to reduce underage drinking, the Department of Health has been encouraging adolescents to take a pledge not to drink alcohol until they reach the legal age. This seems to be successful. A survey of seventeen-year-olds has found that many who do not drink report having taken a pledge to refrain from drinking, whereas almost all who drink report having never taken such a pledge.
In an effort to reduce underage drinking, the Department of Health has been encouraging adolescents to take a pledge not to drink alcohol until they reach the legal age. This seems to be successful. A survey of seventeen-year-olds has found that many who do not drink report having taken a pledge to refrain from drinking, whereas almost all who drink report having never taken such a pledge.
The reasoning in the argument is most vulnerable to criticism because the argument
bases a conclusion about the efficacy of a method to reduce underage drinking merely on a normative judgment about the morality of underage drinking
fails to consider that an alternative method of reducing underage drinking might be more effective
infers from an association between pledging not to drink and refraining from drinking that the pledging was the cause of refraining from drinking
treats a condition that is sufficient to produce an outcome as though it were necessary for the outcome to occur
confuses the claim that many adolescents who do not drink report having taken the pledge with the claim that many who report having taken the pledge do not drink
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