Flaw II

Question 1

What is the flaw?

The failure of bicyclists to obey traffic laws is a causal factor in one quarter of traffic accidents involving biclycists

Since inadequate biclyce safety is also a factor in more than a quarter of such accidents, bicyclists are at least partially responsible for more than half of the traffic accidents involving bicycles

Answer 1

Fallacy of Exclusivity

Correct answer for question:

Fails to consider that the possibility that more than one facctor may contribute to a given accident

The argument fails to consider that a traffic accident can have multiple causes. This means that it would potentially be in error to combine the percentage amounts. They could be occurring in the same accidents.

this argument only works if, in each of the above cases, the causal factor mentioned excluded the other causal factor. - which we are not told

one of the incorrect answer choices is that the argument “improperly implies a causal connection on the basis of a correlation,” however, it doesnt do that. That is, for this to be true, the causal statement would have been in the conclusion, not the premise

Question 2

What is the difference between Parallel Reasoning and Parallel the Flawed Reasoning

Answer 2

In Parallel the Flawed Reasoning, you must simply find the matching flaw

however,

Everything must match up in Parallel Reasoning (for example, use of qualifiers - some, most) and method of reasoning

NOTE: Flaws can also be present on normal parallel questions