easy · 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 leans on the word 'organic' to imply that the pesticide is also safe for human beings.
- It treats a condition merely necessary for a successful pesticide as though it were sufficient.
- It mistakes a correlation between the pesticide application and the dead aphids for genuine causation.
- It draws a broad conclusion based on an extremely limited and potentially unrepresentative sample.
- It assumes that killing aphids is the single guaranteed way to protect a garden from every possible garden pest.
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