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Lesson: Challenging Critical/Logical Reasoning - 11

Reasoning Classics: The Representativeness Argument

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Another classic that you are guaranteed to see on the Reasoning portion of your test is a representativeness argument.

In a representativeness argument, the author uses evidence from one sample and uses it to provide support for a conclusion about another sample or group.

The 'sample' may be a survey, it may be a single case study, or it may come in some other form. However, the key feature in all representativeness arguments is that the author assumes that the sample used in the evidence is sufficiently representative to draw conclusions from it.

In representativeness arguments, the assumption will almost always be the following: The evidence sample is representative; conclusions can be drawn from it.

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