Q14 - Advertisement: HomeGlo Paints, Inc., has won

[yama_sekander]

I'm having trouble narrowing it down between B and E. for me, the flaw was that just because the award is given to the company with the most improvement doesn't mean that it is the most environmentally safe brand. for example, another company may not have improved its product over the past three years but could me 20 times safer than homeglo already.




any help would be appreciated! thanks

[timmydoeslsat]

That is exactly how I would state the flaw.

Just because variable Y improves more than any other variable does not mean that variable Y has passed those other variables overall.

The reason to eliminate B is that it is committing a different type of flaw than the stimulus

Answer choice B goes from:

Sunshine breakfast cereal contains more nutrients ounce for ounce than any other breakfast cereals.

Therefore, you are now eating the most nutritious food now on the market.

Oh really? What about lunch foods? Supper foods? Perhaps there are nutritious chicken breast TV dinners that surpass the nutritiousness of the Sunshine breakfast. Sunshine breakfast is the most nutritious per ounce for all breakfast cereals, but not in food overall! We do not even know if it is the most nutritious in breakfast foods, much less overall food. Remember, it stated Sunshine was more nutritious as a breakfast cereal, not just breakfast.

[WaltGrace1983]

Just so everyone knows, the answer is actually (D) - I think the OP had a typo.

(D) is correct because it commits the exact same type of flaw. While the original argument goes from discussing the "most improved in environmental safety" to concluding that the product is in fact the "best in environmental safety," answer choice (D) makes a step in the same direction.

[ohthatpatrick]

Thanks, Walt!

Question Type: Match the Flaw

Task: Figure out the flaw in the original. Generalize it (remove the topic). Find a similar flaw in an answer choice.

The original argument establishes that HomeGlo Ex. Enamel has increased its environmental safety the most over the past three years, compared to other paint manufacturers.

Based on that, it says that HomeGlo Ex. Enamel is [b]the most environmentally safe" paint that is manufactured.

So the flaw is that just because "you have the most recent improvement" doesn't mean that "you have the highest score/level of achievement".

(A) The flaw on this isn't that we go from "most improved" to "best". It's that we go from "it's the best at THESE attributes" to "it's the best at some OTHER attribute".

(B) The flaw on this one is going from "most nutritious breakfast food" to "most nutritious food". Not a strong match.

(C) The flaw here is going from "more customer visits" to "more profits". Doesn't seem great.

(D) This seems perfect. Goes from "most improvement" to "highest ranked".

(E) This goes from "this story is award winning" to "all past stories must have some literary value".

Let us know if any questions remain.