medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
Over the last five years, the average household income in Greenville has risen. A columnist concludes from this that most families in Greenville are now better off financially than they were before.
The columnist's reasoning is questionable because it:
- takes no account of families that have recently moved into Greenville
- overlooks that income is not the only measure of a family's financial well-being
- assumes that the upward trend in Greenville will persist in the years to come
- fails to recognize that a small number of very high earners can raise an average even if most families gain nothing
- treats Greenville's experience as typical of every town in the region
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