QUESTION TEXT: Coach: Our team has often been criticized…
QUESTION TYPE: Flawed Reasoning
CONCLUSION: The team’s celebrations are not unprofessional.
REASONING: Professional athletes celebrate in the same way.
ANALYSIS: When the critics said “unprofessional”, they meant: rude, bad, not being a good sport, etc.
When the coach said “professional”, he meant: someone who plays a sport for a living.
Those are two different meanings of the word “professional”. One describes how you act, and the other describes your job.
Switching the meaning of a word often appears
as a wrong answer choice on flawed reasoning questions. But sometimes it is the correct answer.
___________
- The word “unethical” is never used, and nothing that means “unethical” is ever used, either. This answer choice is trying to make you hallucinate.
- CORRECT. The critics meant the team was being immature. The coach thought the critics meant the team wasn’t doing what pro athletes do.
- Generalizations are fine, if they’re relevant. Something that’s true about pro sports may well be true of amateur sports, too.
- The coach didn’t say that the pros caused his team’s behavior. He argument was: “If it’s fine for them, it’s fine for us.”
- No one said how many team members were enthusiastic.
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