medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
A researcher reasons as follows: "Most professional athletes began their training before the age of ten. So if my daughter is going to become a professional athlete, she will need to start training before she turns ten."
The reasoning above is flawed in that it
- takes a trait shared by most members of a group to be a requirement for joining that group.
- overlooks that starting to train so young could heighten injury risk and derail an athletic career.
- assumes that what holds true of a group as a whole must hold true of each of its members.
- mistakes a correlation between two trends for a causal connection between them.
- presumes that early training is sufficient, by itself, to guarantee a professional athletic career.
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