Self-study
Support Researchers recently studied the relationship between diet and mood, using a diverse sample of 1,000 adults. ██ ███ █████ ████ █████ ███ ███ ███ ████ █████████ ████ ███ ████ ██████ ██ ████ ██████████ ██████████ ██ ████████ █████████ █████████ ████████████ ██████ ███ ██████ █████████ ███████ █████ █████
Summarize Argument: Phenomenon-Hypothesis
The author concludes that adults can improve their mood by reducing excessive chocolate consumption. This is based on a study that found people who ate the most chocolate were the most likely to feel depressed.
Identify and Describe Flaw
The author assumes that the explanation for the correlation between people who eat the most chocolate and likelihood of depression is that chocolate causes depression. This overlooks alternate explanations. For example, maybe depression causes people to eat chocolate. Or maybe there’s a third factor that tends to lead both to depression and to consuming chocolate.
Analysis by KevinLin
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