PrepTest 88, Section 3, Question 19
Store owner: My customers are not worried about crime in this neighborhood; every day I talk to people who shop at my store, and they tell me that they are not worried. So crime is not adversely affecting my business by reducing the number of people willing to shop at my store.
Store owner: My customers are not worried about crime in this neighborhood; every day I talk to people who shop at my store, and they tell me that they are not worried. So crime is not adversely affecting my business by reducing the number of people willing to shop at my store.
Store owner: My customers are not worried about crime in this neighborhood; every day I talk to people who shop at my store, and they tell me that they are not worried. So crime is not adversely affecting my business by reducing the number of people willing to shop at my store.
Store owner: My customers are not worried about crime in this neighborhood; every day I talk to people who shop at my store, and they tell me that they are not worried. So crime is not adversely affecting my business by reducing the number of people willing to shop at my store.
The reasoning in the store owner's argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that the argument
infers that something is not the case on the grounds that there is only a small amount of evidence for its being the case
appeals to personal opinion to establish a factual claim
generalizes about the whole neighborhood based on the case of one store
draws a conclusion on the basis of a biased sample
fails to consider that crime might affect the neighborhood negatively without affecting businesses negatively
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