QUESTION TEXT: Research indicates that college professors generally…
QUESTION TYPE: Flawed Reasoning
CONCLUSION: Professors grew up in upper class houses.
REASONING: Professors grew up in areas with higher average incomes.
ANALYSIS: Even in rich cities there are poorer people. The professors might have been raised in poorer houses in rich cities.
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- Actually, it’s quite reasonable to assume that more income is an economic advantage. You can buy stuff with your money.
- Who cares? We’re trying to find out what happened in those communities where college professors did grow up.
- CORRECT. Exactly. College professors might have been raised in households with below-average incomes, even if they lived in rich cities.
- We’re talking about college professors’ parents’ salaries, when the professors were kids. It doesn’t matter how much money the professors earn now.
- It doesn’t matter where professors live now. We’re talking about where they lived when they grew up.
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