{"id":21762,"date":"2013-11-22T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/gmat-the-real-world-critical-reasoning-flaws\/"},"modified":"2013-11-22T07:00:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T14:00:19","slug":"gmat-the-real-world-critical-reasoning-flaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-the-real-world-critical-reasoning-flaws\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT &amp; The Real World: Critical Reasoning Flaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gmat.kaptest.com\/2013\/11\/22\/gmat-the-real-world-critical-reasoning-flaws\/\" title=\"Questioning\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Questioning\" src=\"https:\/\/gmat.kaptest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Questioning-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"GMAT practice in the real world critical reasoning flaw\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>A Study Questioning the GMAT Ironically Proves to be a Great Resource to Practice GMAT Critical Reasoning Flaw Questions...<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe you heard about a recent story in the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0entitled:\u00a0<em>Are business schools graduating the wrong leaders? If so, the GMAT may be to blame.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The reason why I love this piece is because the study (at least as it is presented in the article) is jam-packed with critical reasoning flaws you can use to sharpen your <a href=\"https:\/\/gmat.kaptest.com\/2011\/09\/07\/how-to-attack-critical-reasoning-arguments\/#sthash.277VfbQp.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">GMAT Critical Reasoning skills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That's why I've decided to make this a multi-part special.<\/p>\n<p>In our first installment, one of the reasoning flaws that the GMAT tests is starkly evident. Let's see if you can identify it:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\"A study in the Journal of Business Ethics makes the surprising finding that high GMAT scores may be correlated to some of the negative traits of American business: lack of ethical orientation...<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The report's authors...examined the GMAT scores of candidates in 25 countries over the 2004-2010 period.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>They found that candidates from nations with the highest levels of ethics had the lowest GMAT scores.\"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did you spot it? Right there in plain daylight, the conclusion is made that because an individual is from a country with a lower ethical quotient, that individual will therefore have a lesser ethical fiber, and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>Applying a general trait from the group to an individual from that group is a classic flaw in GMAT logical reasoning. How would we know that what is true of the whole is necessarily representative of any particular individual?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to this study we have a great example of how awareness of this kind of reasoning flaw will better help you improve your performance on the GMAT in both Critical Reasoning, and on the AWA essay.<\/p>\n<p>Stand by...we're just getting started with this piece. More to come in future blog entries.<\/p>\n<p>Questions about GMAT Critical Reasoning? Ask them in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Study Questioning the GMAT Ironically Proves to be a Great Resource to Practice GMAT Critical Reasoning Flaw Questions&#8230; Maybe you heard about a recent story in the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0entitled:\u00a0Are business&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,558,243,940],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat","category-kaplan-blog","category-blog","category-gmat-prep-gmat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}