PrepTest 123, Section 3, Question 8
By Brandon Beaver | Published October 29, 2024
Type: Flaw
Difficulty:
Explanations
Seriously? Well, obviously consumers would prefer something to nothing! This is like saying, “Consumers preferred the taste of Pepsi to water, so Pepsi is the best drink on the market!” See the issue?
A
It doesn’t seem like at least 99% of the consumers in the study are allergic.
B
Environmental factors? No clue.
C
The conclusion is about being “most effective,” not most “cost-effective.”
D
Like C, we aren’t concerned with costs or expenses.
E
Finally, yes. Maybe if the consumers compared Fabric-Soft to another fabric softeners they’d choose the other fabric softeners.
Passage
Advertisement: Fabric-Soft leaves clothes soft and fluffy, and its fresh scent is a delight. We conducted a test using over 100 consumers to prove Fabric-Soft is best. Each consumer was given one towel washed with Fabric-Soft and one towel washed without it. Ninety-nine percent of the consumers preferred the Fabric-Soft towel. So Fabric-Soft is the most effective fabric softener available.
Question 8
The advertisement's reasoning is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it fails to consider whether
any of the consumers tested are allergic to fabric softeners
Fabric-Soft is more or less harmful to the environment than other fabric softeners
Fabric-Soft is much cheaper or more expensive than other fabric softeners
the consumers tested find the benefits of using fabric softeners worth the expense
the consumers tested had the opportunity to evaluate fabric softeners other than Fabric-Soft