Flawed Parallel Reasoning Questions - - Question 6

The great medieval universities had no administrators, yet they endured for centuries. Our university has a huge admi...

hannahnaylor5 August 27, 2019

Why is A incorrect?

Could you please explain why A is incorrect?

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Irina August 28, 2019

@hannahnaylor5,

The flaw in the stimulus is a correlation/ causation flaw.

A is correlated with B, hence A must cause B.
Absence of admin staff is correlated with longevity, hence abolishing admin staff will ensure longevity.

(A) has no correlation causation component, it is not trying to say that no jet engine is correlated with the airplane's ability to fly, hence having no jet engine would guarantee that an airplane can fly.