medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
A survey of residents in the Lakeview district found that 75% support a new tax to fund a community center. Based on this, the city council concluded that the majority of the city's residents support the tax.
Which one of the following most accurately describes the flaw in the council's reasoning?
- It treats the attitudes of one district's residents as standing in for those of the whole city.
- It supposes that expressing support for a tax guarantees a willingness to actually pay it.
- It mistakes a proportion of respondents for a raw count of supporters.
- It overlooks that some surveyed residents may since have reconsidered their position.
- It assumes a community center is the best possible use of the new tax revenue.
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