Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Medium

PT111 S3 Q13 Explanation

President of the Regional Chamber

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Stimulus

President of the Regional Chamber of Commerce: We are all aware of the painful fact that almost no new businesses have moved into our region or started up here over the last ten years. But the Planning Board is obviously guilty of a gross exaggeration in its recent estimate that businesses are were really leaving at such a rate, they would all have been gone long ago.

What this question is testing

Flaw

Your task

Describe the reasoning error the argument actually commits.

Common trap

Answers that name a real logical flaw the argument doesn't actually make.

Winning move

Articulate the gap in the reasoning yourself, then match it to the choice that describes that gap.

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The question
13.

The argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the ground

Answer choices

  1. Trap6% picked this

    focuses on what is going out of a system while ignoring the issue of what is

  2. Trap16% picked this

    confuses a claim about a rate of change within a system with a claim about the absolute

  3. Trap0% picked this

    argues against a position simply by showing that the position serves the interest of

  4. Correct72% picked this

    treats a claim about what is currently the case as if it were a claim about what has been the

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

    Skill tested: Flaw · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

  5. Trap7% picked this

    attacks what was offered as an estimate on the ground that it

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