According to local farmers, the recent significant decline in the yield of Einkorn, a variety of wheat cultivated primarily in Ingrostia, is due to the unfavorable weather conditions last year. However, a government spokesperson recently made a statement claiming that the yield of Einkorn has declined because of the decline in the usage of pesticides by the local farmers.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously calls the spokesperson’s claim into question?
Last year a chain of fast-food restaurants, whose menu had always centered on hamburger, added its first vegetarian sandwich, much lower in fat than the chain’s other offerings. Despite heavy marketing, the new sandwich accounts for a very small proportion of the chain’s sales. The sandwich’s sales would have to quadruple to cover the costs associated with including it on the menu. Since such an increase is unlikely, the chain would be more profitable if it dropped the sandwich.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
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There are actually long-term benefits for Wall Street stockbrokers in a rapidly falling stock market in which most investors are selling and many people are losing a great deal of money. After all, the volume of daily transactions rises dramatically in such a market, and the stockbrokers, who receive a commission on each sale, collect a windfall of commission income.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the argument made above?
In Paproland, since the invention of the printing press in 1440, sales of print books have gone nowhere but up. Unfortunately, due to the invention of the internet and computers, print books have seen a steady decline lately. Now with the arrival of eBooks, which are easier to access and cheaper than the regular book, print books are bound to soon become things of the past in the country and eBooks will become the new “future”.
Which of the following most seriously weakens the argument?
Time and again it has been shown that students who attend colleges with low faculty/student ratios get the most well-rounded education. As a result, when my children are ready to attend college, I'll be sure they attend a school with a very small student population.
Which of the following, if true, identifies the greatest flaw in the reasoning above?
Researcher: People with certain personality disorders have more theta brain waves than those without such disorders. But my data show that the amount of one’s theta brain waves increases while watching TV. So watching too much TV increases one’s risk of developing personality disorders.
A questionable aspect of the reasoning above is that it
For the average person who needs a transfusion, blood from a relative is more likely to be infected with hepatitis than is blood from a blood bank. Therefore, the risk of contracting hepatitis from a transfusion is higher for people receiving blood from relatives than for people receiving blood from blood banks.
Which one of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
A proposed ordinance requires that all cyclists wear a helmet when riding a bike. However, one cycling enthusiast argued that since more than ninety percent of bike-related accidents do not cause more than a scrape, mandatory helmet use would only marginally decrease the number of serious injuries caused by cycling.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the cycling enthusiast's argument?
A team of educational researchers at a University wanted to assess the relation between studying late at night with the performance of the students. Currently the classes at the University start very early in the morning, not encouraging the students to study late at night. However the researchers allowed a group of volunteer students to arrive for their classes late in the morning for a period of three months during which they studied late at night regularly. It was observed that their performance significantly improved.
Which of the following options, if true, would have the strongest grounds against deciding, on the basis of the above assessment, to implement late start of classes in the morning at the University to improve the performance of the students?
Proponents of a municipal bill that would extend the shelf life of salable milk by two days argue that this will allow milk distributors to make fewer trips to retail stores. This will cut the cost to the distributors, which in turn will cut the cost to the retail stores and thus inevitably cut the cost to the consumer. Those of us aware of human greed, however, need only point to the southernmost counties to prove our case. In those counties the shelf life has always been two days longer than it is here, and yet they have always paid more for their milk. Thus, whatever savings the distributors and retailers realize will be put directly into their pockets and not, as the idealists claim, passed on to the consumer.
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the argument above?
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