medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
A city council member argues: our city's average resident income has risen by 10 percent over the past three years. This proves that the economic well-being of the majority of our citizens has improved significantly.
The reasoning in the argument is flawed because it:
- neglects the possibility that the city's cost of living has fallen during the same period.
- treats a statement about a group's average as though it described what is true for most members of the group.
- assumes the income gains resulted from city policies rather than from broader national trends.
- ignores that income is only one of several measures of economic well-being.
- concludes that no resident's income could have declined over the three-year period.
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