Researcher: People with certain personality

Answer choices

1. A

   Not Equivocating0% picked this

   uses the phrase “personality disorders”

   Both usages of "personality disorder" mean the same thing, a clinically diagnosable psychological condition. This answer choice refers to the famous flaw Equivocation, which will almost always be an incorrect answer.

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2. B

   Not a Flaw0% picked this

   fails to define the phrase “theta

   We're never saying that "the problem with this guy's reasoning is that he didn't precisely define a term or provide an exact measurement or specifically name his sources". It wouldn't matter if this argument replaced "theta brain waves" with "any three words". The reasoning problem would be the same.

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3. C

   Correct90% picked this

   takes correlation to imply a causal

   Why this is right

   The language of "People who are X have more Y than people who aren't X" is a correlation. It strengthens the idea that there's some connection between X and Y, but we can't confidently assume that X causes Y.

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

   90%
4. D

   Bad Evidence Match6% picked this

   draws a conclusion from an unrepresentative sample

   We haven't been given any reason to think that the data set is unrepresentative. This answer choice refers to the famous flaw Sampling, but when they are testing unrepresentative samples there are some crumbs in the evidence to suggest that we're dealing with a biased or self-selecting sample.

   6%
5. E

   Bad Conclusion Match3% picked this

   infers that watching TV is a consequence of a

   The author is envisioning a causal chain that looks like this: watch TV ? more theta ? personality disorder The author is inferring that personality disorder is a consequence of watching too much TV.

   3%