Lesson: Challenging Critical/Logical Reasoning - 13t01

Reasoning Classics: The Representativeness Argument, continued

In addressing the region-wide recession, the comptroller of County X has asserted that the depressed economy of County X is indicative of the inevitable consequences of the recession for all counties in the region. But that must be false, considering that the economy of neighboring County Y is as robust as ever, despite the overall current financial difficulties of the region.

Now that we've identified the assumption, think of one statement that would strengthen the argument and one statement that would weaken the argument. Click Continue to see our examples.

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