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ID: LSAT-LR-001
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Flaw in the Reasoning
Difficulty level: Easy

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Editorial: Our readers overwhelmingly favour extending the town's cycle path. Of the readers who chose to answer the poll we posted on our website last month, eighty-four percent supported the extension. Since our readership is drawn from every neighbourhood in the town, the poll shows that the town as a whole wants the path extended.

The reasoning in the editorial is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it

Arelies on a sample too small, relative to the town's population, to support a conclusion about what the town's residents want

Bdraws a conclusion about what the town's residents want from the responses of readers who selected themselves by choosing to answer the poll

Ctreats the fact that most of the readers who answered favoured the extension as showing that extending the path would be desirable

Dfails to consider that some of the readers who answered the poll may live outside the town itself

Epresumes without warrant that extending the cycle path would benefit the residents of every one of the neighbourhoods from which the newspaper draws its readership

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