medium · GMAT Verbal
Argument: 'Our new organic pesticide is highly effective. In a test on a single garden plot, it killed 98% of the aphids within 24 hours.'
Which of the following describes the reasoning flaw?
- It uses the term 'organic' to suggest that the pesticide is safe for humans.
- It treats a necessary condition for a successful pesticide as if it were a sufficient one.
- It mistakes a correlation between the pesticide and the dead aphids for a causal relationship.
- It draws a broad conclusion based on an extremely limited and potentially unrepresentative sample.
- It assumes that killing aphids is the only way to protect a garden from pests.
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