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 voicing support for a tax reliably guarantees a willingness to actually pay it.
- It mistakes a mere proportion of the survey's respondents for a raw head count of actual supporters.
- It overlooks that some of the surveyed residents may since have quietly reconsidered their position.
- It assumes a community center is plainly the single best possible use of all the new tax revenue.
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