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It is not correct on the part of the district administration to ban the sport of drag racing. After all, only 50 people have been injured in the last one year while drag racing whereas more than 400 people have been injured while playing baseball. The administration should, thus, ban baseball instead.

The argument above is flawed because:

(A) It compares two different types of sports.
(B) It does not take into account the treatment cost of the injuries.
(C) It fails to take into account the total number of people who drag race and the total number of people who play baseball.
(D) It does not take into account injuries caused in other sports such as boxing.
(E) It uses inaccurate data to support its conclusion.
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Re: It is not correct on the part of the district administration to ban th [#permalink] New post   02 Oct 2018, 12:58
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Let us understand what the argument is saying -

Incorrect that district admin banned drag racing. Reason : Only 50 got injured in drag racing vs. 400 in got injured in baseball. Admin should ban baseball.

The reasoning is flawed because ? : Let us look at options...

(A) It compares two different types of sports. WRONG - Argument does no such thing - it just mentions does not compare sports
(B) It does not take into account the treatment cost of the injuries. WRONG - Beyond scope...
(C) It fails to take into account the total number of people who drag race and the total number of people who play baseball. CORRECT - 50 out of 50 drag racers could have been injured whereas 400 out of thousands in baseball could have been injured destroying the basis of argument.
(D) It does not take into account injuries caused in other sports such as boxing. WRONG - Out of scope.
(E) It uses inaccurate data to support its conclusion.[/quote] WRONG - we do not know if data is inaccurate

Hence Option (C) is our choice.

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It is not correct on the part of the district administration to ban the sport of drag racing. After all, only 50 people have been injured in the last one year while drag racing whereas more than 400 people have been injured while playing baseball. The administration should, thus, ban baseball instead.

The argument above is flawed because:

(A) It compares two different types of sports.
(B) It does not take into account the treatment cost of the injuries.
(C) It fails to take into account the total number of people who drag race and the total number of people who play baseball.
(D) It does not take into account injuries caused in other sports such as boxing.
(E) It uses inaccurate data to support its conclusion.
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Re: It is not correct on the part of the district administration to ban [#permalink] New post   12 Jun 2019, 20:46
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It is not correct on the part of the district administration to ban the sport of drag racing. After all, only 50 people have been injured in the last one year while drag racing whereas more than 400 people have been injured while playing baseball. The administration should, thus, ban baseball instead.

The argument above is flawed because:

(A) It compares two different types of sports.
(B) It does not take into account the treatment cost of the injuries.
(C) It fails to take into account the total number of people who drag race and the total number of people who play baseball.
(D) It does not take into account injuries caused in other sports such as boxing.
(E) It uses inaccurate data to support its conclusion.


The right answer here is C. The argument claims that it is not right to ban drag racing because far fewer people have been injured in drag racing than in baseball. But to use a real world analogy: Hockey is a fairly violent sport in which a brawl is not extremely uncommon. But the number of injuries from hockey is going to be nowhere near the number of injuries from the non-contact sport cricket, simply because cricket is played by about 20 times as many people. So this argument doesn't really consider the overall popularity of the sport.

This point is most clearly illustrated by C, that it doesn't take into account how many people actually play the sport.

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Re: It is not correct on the part of the district administration to ban [#permalink] New post   12 Jun 2019, 21:38
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It is not correct on the part of the district administration to ban the sport of drag racing. After all, only 50 people have been injured in the last one year while drag racing whereas more than 400 people have been injured while playing baseball. The administration should, thus, ban baseball instead.

The argument above is flawed because:

(A) It compares two different types of sports.
(B) It does not take into account the treatment cost of the injuries.
(C) It fails to take into account the total number of people who drag race and the total number of people who play baseball.
(D) It does not take into account injuries caused in other sports such as boxing.
(E) It uses inaccurate data to support its conclusion.



Option C is correct because the no. of people (injured) involved in drag racing and baseball have been compared , rather than comparing the percentage of the people involved into the two sports.
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It is not correct on the part of the district administration to ban [#permalink] New post   12 Jun 2019, 21:46
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It is not correct on the part of the district administration to ban the sport of drag racing. After all, only 50 people have been injured in the last one year while drag racing whereas more than 400 people have been injured while playing baseball. The administration should, thus, ban baseball instead.

The argument above is flawed because:

(A) It compares two different types of sports.
(B) It does not take into account the treatment cost of the injuries.
(C) It fails to take into account the total number of people who drag race and the total number of people who play baseball.
(D) It does not take into account injuries caused in other sports such as boxing.
(E) It uses inaccurate data to support its conclusion.


The right answer here is C. The argument claims that it is not right to ban drag racing because far fewer people have been injured in drag racing than in baseball. But to use a real world analogy: Hockey is a fairly violent sport in which a brawl is not extremely uncommon. But the number of injuries from hockey is going to be nowhere near the number of injuries from the non-contact sport cricket, simply because cricket is played by about 20 times as many people. So this argument doesn't really consider the overall popularity of the sport.

This point is most clearly illustrated by C, that it doesn't take into account how many people actually play the sport.

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Real world examples are given, so I don't think there's any need to complicate this further.

If 50 people were injured playing Sport A and 400 people were injured playing sport B then we can't compare the two sports' risk without considering the total population.

What if only 50 people played Sport A? Then 100% of people playing sport A get injured.
What if 4,000,000 people play Sport B? Then only 0.01% of people playing Sport B get injured.

The author fails to consider this and the argument tries to confuse the reader with the absolute Numbers vs percentages concept.
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Re: It is not correct on the part of the district administration to ban [#permalink] New post   23 Nov 2020, 09:00
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It is not correct on the part of the district administration to ban the sport of drag racing. After all, only 50 people have been injured in the last one year while drag racing whereas more than 400 people have been injured while playing baseball. The administration should, thus, ban baseball instead.

The argument above is flawed because:

(A) It compares two different types of sports.
(B) It does not take into account the treatment cost of the injuries.
(C) It fails to take into account the total number of people who drag race and the total number of people who play baseball.
(D) It does not take into account injuries caused in other sports such as boxing.
(E) It uses inaccurate data to support its conclusion.


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Answer: C

The argument is only looking at 50 and 400 as absolute numbers whereas it should look at them as percentages. For example, if 100 people drag race and 50 are injured, that is a 50% injury rate. As against this, if 10,000 people play football and 400 are injured, that is only a 4% injury rate. Thus, C is the flaw in the argument.

(A) There is nothing wrong in comparing two different things, as long as they are both types of sports.

(B) The cost of treatment is outside the scope of the argument.

(D) Other sporting activities are also outside the scope of the argument.

(E) There is nothing in the argument to suggest that it uses inaccurate data.
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