Overstated Conclusion

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The right idea stated too strongly — 'suggests' converted to 'proves', 'some' to 'all', skepticism about evidence converted into denial of the phenomenon. True-adjacent and stronger than the evidence, it is the most-chosen wrong answer on inference and main-idea items alike; the defense is to scan for quantifiers and modals.

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