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Category - Logical Reasoning

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Lee: “Newspaper editors should stop worrying about whether a story will be popular or help sell magazines. Great writers all write to tell a great story, not to be popular.”

Gertrude: “But newspaper editors do have to sell papers, or they would be out of a job. An editor is more like a business owner than a writer, and must consider what stories will make people want to read a paper.”

Gertrude asserts that Lee’s argument is flawed because it
  1. Uses circular reasoning.
  2. Offers a faulty analogy.
  3. Does not give an example of writers who did not want to be popular.
  4. Does not identify the newspaper editors to which the assertion should apply.
  5. Relies on an unrepresentative sample.
Explanation
Answer: B - Gertrude asserts that Lee’s argument is flawed because it offers a faulty analogy. Gertrude finds fault in Lee’s argument by showing that writers and newspaper editors are not really similar, so that claiming what works for a writer should work for an editor is not an effective argument.
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