Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: The proportion of fat calories in the diets of people who

The proportion of fat calories in the diets of people who read the nutrition labels on food products is significantly lower than it is in the diets of people who do not read nutrition labels. This shows that reading these labels promotes healthful dietarybehavior.

The reasoning in the argument above is flawed in that theargument
(A) illicitlyinfers a cause from a correlation - CORRECT. Yes, it mixes up the two which may nottrue.
(B) relies on a sample that is unlikely to be representative of thegroup as a whole - WRONG. Sample size is not anissue.
(C) confuses a condition that is necessary for a phenomenon to occur with a condition that issufficient for that phenomenon to occur - WRONG. Neither necessary norsufficient.
(D) takes for granted that there are only two possible alternativeexplanations of a phenomenon - WRONG. Which two explanations..! Not that any we can see in thepassage.
(E) draws a conclusion about the intentions of a group ofpeople based solely on data about
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Statistics : Posted by unraveled • on 09 Feb 2019, 20:00 • Replies 3 • Views 3936

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