medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
The crime rate in neighborhoods that have more police patrols is higher than in neighborhoods with fewer patrols. Thus, the presence of police causes crime.
Which one of the following arguments exhibits flawed reasoning most similar to that in the argument above?
- People who visit the doctor frequently tend to be sick, so visiting the doctor makes people sick.
- If you raise the temperature, the ice melts. The ice melted, so you raised the temperature.
- Since yesterday was cold, today will probably be cold as well.
- Every criminal is someone who breaks the law; John is a criminal, so John has broken the law.
- More police patrols accompany higher crime, so cutting all patrols would eliminate crime entirely.
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