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Drift Assay's pricing desk notes that when the firm last added a rush fee, order count held steady and margin rose. A critic replies that a competitor was offline that week. The critic's point is that the episode does not establish that ________.

Which of the following most logically completes the passage?

  1. the old fee was already above cost, so a rush fee cannot change orders
  2. the firm should never add fees again once orders have held still once
  3. order count is the only metric that matters, so margin can be ignored
  4. order count would again hold if the rush fee were added while rivals were taking orders
  5. the competitor's outage was the competitor's fault

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