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 link between two features to the claim that one causes the other, ignoring a shared cause such as neighborhood affluence
- assumes that having a low body mass index is, all by itself, the single most important measure of how healthy any given resident truly is overall
- ignores that a good many residents who happen to live near the fitness centers may in fact never once actually set foot inside any one of them
- generalizes from a particular set of chosen neighborhoods that there is genuine reason to believe is fairly atypical of the wider surrounding city
- defines the central term healthier weight in a way that conveniently presupposes the very conclusion the researchers aim to establish
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