PrepTest 77, Section 3, Question 6
Letter to the editor: Your newspaper's advertisement claims that you provide coverage of the high school's most popular sports. Clearly this is false advertising. Of the school's students, 15 percent compete on the track team, while only 5 percent of the students play basketball. Hence, track is far more popular than basketball, yet track gets no coverage and basketball gets full-page coverage.
Letter to the editor: Your newspaper's advertisement claims that you provide coverage of the high school's most popular sports. Clearly this is false advertising. Of the school's students, 15 percent compete on the track team, while only 5 percent of the students play basketball. Hence, track is far more popular than basketball, yet track gets no coverage and basketball gets full-page coverage.
Letter to the editor: Your newspaper's advertisement claims that you provide coverage of the high school's most popular sports. Clearly this is false advertising. Of the school's students, 15 percent compete on the track team, while only 5 percent of the students play basketball. Hence, track is far more popular than basketball, yet track gets no coverage and basketball gets full-page coverage.
Letter to the editor: Your newspaper's advertisement claims that you provide coverage of the high school's most popular sports. Clearly this is false advertising. Of the school's students, 15 percent compete on the track team, while only 5 percent of the students play basketball. Hence, track is far more popular than basketball, yet track gets no coverage and basketball gets full-page coverage.
The reasoning in the letter to the editor is most vulnerable to the criticism that it
infers a cause from a mere correlation
bases its conclusion on a sample that is too small
misinterprets a key word in the newspaper's advertisement
employs as a premise the contention it purports to show
criticizes the source of a claim rather than the claim itself
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