medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
The average height of the players on the city's professional basketball team is over six feet. Therefore, any individual player on the team must be over six feet tall.
The reasoning above is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it:
- assumes that a figure true of the team taken collectively, such as its average, must hold of each player taken separately
- overlooks that basketball players are generally taller than members of the general population
- presumes that height is the single most important factor in a basketball player's success
- neglects to state the exact height of the shortest player on the team
- concludes that no professional basketball player anywhere could ever stand under six feet
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