medium · 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 mistakenly assumes that no single individual traveler could ever value both low ticket prices and superior in-flight comfort at the very same time.
- 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 mere statistical correlation between a traveler's airline choice and amenity preference with a real causal relationship.
- It improperly relies on a survey result expressed as a percentage figure rather than as an absolute number of the actual travelers surveyed.
- It fails to account for the very real possibility that some established legacy carriers might also offer fares as low as those of budget airlines.
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