easy · LSAT Logical Reasoning
Every person who has reached the summit of Mount Everest has experienced extreme cold. John has experienced extreme cold. So John must have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
Which one of the following most accurately identifies a flaw in the reasoning above?
- It overlooks that enduring extreme cold is something many circumstances besides an Everest climb can bring about
- It assumes that enduring extreme cold is the sole prerequisite for reaching the summit of Everest
- It generalizes about all summit climbers from an unrepresentative sample of mountaineers
- It disregards the chance that a person might reach the summit yet never feel extreme cold at all
- It mistakes a correlation between cold and climbing for a relationship in which one causes the other
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