hard · GMAT Verbal
A survey of 1,000 frequent flyers found that 82% prefer the comfort of legacy carriers over the lower prices of budget airlines. Based on this, airline industry analysts concluded that the general traveling public is willing to pay a premium for additional legroom and in-flight amenities.
Which of the following identifies the most significant flaw in the analysts' reasoning?
- It assumes that no traveler can value both low prices and in-flight comfort simultaneously.
- It generalizes about the entire traveling public from a sample of frequent flyers whose preferences are unlikely to represent that broader group.
- It confuses a correlation between airline choice and amenity preference with a causal relationship.
- It relies on a survey result expressed as a percentage rather than an absolute number of travelers.
- It fails to account for the possibility that some legacy carriers also offer low fares.
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