Flawed Parallel ReasoningDiff: Hardest
Logic Breakdown
Passage Summary: A company hired a 'dream team' of individual superstars, so they assume the entire department will automatically be a 'dream department.'
Conclusion: The newly created corporate division must be one of the most effective and creative ones the company has ever had.
Reasoning: The individual employees hired for this new division are among the most effective and creative workers the corporation has ever employed.
Analysis: This argument suffers from the Error of Composition—the mistaken belief that what is true of the parts must be true of the whole. Just because you have eleven world-class soccer players doesn't mean you have a world-class team if they all refuse to pass the ball to each other. To find a parallel flaw, look for an answer choice that takes a characteristic of individual members (like being expensive, fast, or smart) and attributes that same characteristic to the group as a single unit.
Conclusion: The newly created corporate division must be one of the most effective and creative ones the company has ever had.
Reasoning: The individual employees hired for this new division are among the most effective and creative workers the corporation has ever employed.
Analysis: This argument suffers from the Error of Composition—the mistaken belief that what is true of the parts must be true of the whole. Just because you have eleven world-class soccer players doesn't mean you have a world-class team if they all refuse to pass the ball to each other. To find a parallel flaw, look for an answer choice that takes a characteristic of individual members (like being expensive, fast, or smart) and attributes that same characteristic to the group as a single unit.
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Unlock Full Passage25.The flawed pattern of reasoning in which one of the following is most similar to that in the argument above?
Correct Answer
D
D mirrors the composition flaw: because each player on the All-Star teams is among the best, the argument concludes the two All-Star teams must be the best teams. That is the same leap from excellent parts to an excellent whole.
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