Flawed Parallel Reasoning Questions - - Question 2

If that insect is a bee, it can only sting once. It only did sting once. So it is a bee.Which one of the following ex...

Tyler808 January 16, 2022

The question itself

The question makes it seem like its actually a parallel reasoning question instead of a flawed parallel reasoning question. What in the question indicates it's a flawed parallel reasoning question?

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Jay-Etter January 16, 2022

Hi Tyler,
You're correct that nothing in the question stem here would immediately indicate it is a parallel flaw question rather than standard parallel reasoning question. However, in breaking down the stimulus we quickly see that the argument is flawed - they gave a conditional, and then concluded the sufficient condition on the basis of giving us the necessary (which we can't do). We'd know that we're looking for an answer option with the same flaw just by breaking down the stimulus.