PT133.S3.Q2

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PrepTest 133 - Section 3 - Question 2

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Artist: Conclusion Almost everyone in this country really wants to be an artist even though they may have to work other jobs to pay the rent. █████ ████ ████ █████ ████████ █ ████ █████ ██ ███████ ██ ████ ██ ████ █ ██████ ██ █ ████████ █████████ ██ ████ ████ ██ ████ █████████ ████ ██ ███████████ ██ ████████ █████ ███████

Summarize Argument

The artist concludes that almost everyone in the country wants to be an artist. This is based on the observation that most people the artist knows want to be artists.

Identify and Describe Flaw

This is a cookie-cutter unrepresentative sampling flaw. The artist draws a conclusion about everyone in the country based on an observation about the people the artist knows. But an artist’s social circle is more likely to include people who want to be artists compared to the general public, so their life goals are probably not representative of the goals of the general population of the country.

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The artist’s conclusion is not based on any premises that presuppose or restate the conclusion.

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The artist doesn’t presume that something that is true of each person in a country is true of the country’s population as a whole.

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The artist doesn’t use the popularity of any view as support for a conclusion.

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The argument uses the small sample of the artist’s friends to support its conclusion about the people in the country as a whole. An artist’s friends are not likely to represent the whole country when it comes to the goal of being an artist.

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This distinction isn’t necessary to the argument. It’s clear that what the artist is talking about is wanting a career as an artist in either case.

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93% of people who answer get this correct

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CURVE

Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right

25% 127

137

75% 146

Analysis

Question Stem Tags

Flaw or descriptive weakening

Stems that ask us to articulate a flaw in the stimulus' argument, either in abstract terms or by pointing out a weakness.

Stimulus Tags

Sampling

Stimuli that take data from a small pool (e.g. college students) and draw conclusions about a larger pool (e.g. people in general), where the sample pool may be unrepresentative of the broader pool (e.g. measuring science literacy).

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