medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
A study found that neighborhoods with a higher density of fitness centers also had lower average body mass indices. The researchers concluded that the presence of these centers directly encourages residents to maintain a healthier weight.
The reasoning in the researchers' conclusion is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it
- moves from an observed association between two features to the claim that one produces the other, without excluding a shared cause such as a neighborhood's affluence
- assumes that keeping body mass index low is the single most important indicator of how healthy a resident is overall
- ignores that a number of residents living near the centers may never actually set foot inside them
- generalizes from a set of neighborhoods that there is reason to believe is atypical of the wider city
- concludes that fitness centers reduce body mass index from the premise that lower body mass index attracts fitness centers
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