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The author begins with a set relationship: most members of one set (highly successful products) also belong to another set (products launched through a massive advertising campaign). The author concludes that because a certain thing (the Vegetaste Burger) is a member of the second set, it probably belongs to the first set as well.
This author makes a mistake in the use of the “most” relationship between the two sets. The “most” relationship is a one-way street—if you state that most of one set belongs to a second set, you cannot conclude that most of the second set also belongs to the first. This is because we have no idea how many members of our second set (products launched by massive ad campaigns) belong to the first set (really successful products). It’s possible that most products launched through massive ad campaigns are actually failures, and only a few of these ultimately prove to be successful. Knowing that the Vegetaste Burger is being launched by a massive ad campaign tells us nothing about the likelihood of its success.
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