June 2007 PrepTest, Section 2, Question 21
By Brandon Beaver | Published October 29, 2024
Type: Flaw
Difficulty:
Explanations
Hate to break it to you, but the car isn’t the issue here. You are. Specifically, you driving it recklessly. The “research” you did probably doesn’t show that driving a minivan/sedan causes fewer accidents. It probably just shows a correlation between driving a minivan and not driving recklessly.
A
Yup, this is a classic correlation-causation issue. Minivans having lower accident rates is a correlation. This does not mean that driving one will cause your accident rate to decrease.
B
Sample size isn’t mentioned so this can’t be proven.
C
The conclusion is that it would “lower my risk,” not “make my risk 0%.”
D
No, there isn’t a confusion of sufficient for necessary here.
E
Can you prove that from the passage? If no, then you can’t pick this answer choice.
Passage
Driver: My friends say I will one day have an accident becau
Question 21
The reasoning in the driver's argument is most vulnerable to