medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
A survey of three hundred residents of the Westside neighborhood found that 75 percent preferred the new park design over the old one. Therefore, the majority of the city's residents likely prefer the new park design.
The reasoning in the argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it
- treats the views collected within a single neighborhood as though they reliably reflect the views of the city as a whole
- presumes, without warrant, that resident preference is the only consideration that ought to guide municipal urban-planning decisions
- confuses a percentage drawn from the surveyed sample with a precise absolute count of how many residents were polled
- neglects to spell out the concrete ways in which the new park design departs from the old design it replaced
- overlooks the possibility that no city resident could ever reasonably prefer one park design to another
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