QUESTION TYPE: Flawed Parallel Reasoning
CONCLUSION: The quality of education will deteriorate.
REASONING: The quality of education will not increase due to the teacher hiring freeze.
ANALYSIS: This reasoning ignores the middle ground: educational quality could stay exactly the same.
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- This is a bad argument. It ignores that Raul might choose a non-pizza food. But it does not follow the ignore-the-middle-ground structure of the stimulus.
- This isn’t a rock solid argument because we don’t know how many attempts have been made to disprove it. But it’s not the same mistake as we saw in the stimulus.
- The stimulus claimed that education quality would “surely deteriorate”. This only says that society “may become” more discordant. It is actually a good argument.
- CORRECT. This ignores that temperature could stay the same. The stimulus also ignored the middle option.
- This sounds like a good argument.