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The author concludes that the public generally does not find violent movies offensive, contrary to the claims of legislators. As support, he cites a survey of frequent moviegoers in which the majority of respondents did not find violent movies offensive.

The author draws a conclusion about public opinion based on an industry survey of frequent moviegoers. This is the cookie-cutter flaw of relying on an unrepresentative sample: he fails to consider that the views of frequent moviegoers might not be representative of the public as a whole.

The author does address their argument: the problem is that his rebuttal is flawed, not that he didn’t make a rebuttal.

The relevant criterion is subjective judgments (what the public thinks of violent movies), so this can’t be the flaw.

The argument in the stimulus is about what fraction of the public disapproves of violent movies. The actual consequences of the movies are irrelevant; what matters is what the public thinks.

This is the cookie-cutter flaw of relying on an unrepresentative sample. The author commits this by citing a survey of frequent moviegoers as definitive evidence. They might differ from the public as a whole. So they can’t be used to draw a conclusion about the public in general.

Whether the respondents had a random sample of movies is irrelevant: the argument is about what people in general think of violent movies. It doesn’t matter if their choice of movies is non-random. The problem is that the respondents themselves aren’t randomly sampled.

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