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Morton: In order to succeed in today’s society one must have a college degree. Skeptics have objected that there are many people who never completed any education beyond high school but who are nevertheless quite successful. This success is only apparent, however, because without a college degree a person does not have enough education to be truly successful.

Morton’s argument is flawed because it


(A) assumes what it sets out to conclude

(B) mistakes a correlation for a cause

(C) draws a highly general conclusion from evidence about individual cases

(D) fails to consider the status of alleged counterexamples

(E) bases its conclusion on the supposition that most people believe in that conclusion



(A) assumes what it sets out to conclude- Contender

(B) mistakes a correlation for a cause- Here cause is referring to ''Education with degree are successful" but according to argument "people are successful without education" so this cannot be the cause and it is not even the correlation because according to argument success and education are not related. REJECT

(C) draws a highly general conclusion from evidence about individual cases - there is no individual evidence given in the argument regarding success comes with education or degree or both. REJECT

(D) fails to consider the status of alleged counterexamples- Author considered counter example and rejected it by saying this success is apparent - REJECT

(E) bases its conclusion on the supposition that most people believe in that conclusion[/quote]- He didnt suppose or mentioned that most people believe in this conclusion - REJECT


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Morton: In order to succeed in today’s society one must have a college degree. Skeptics have objected that there are many people who never completed any education beyond high school but who are nevertheless quite successful. This success is only apparent, however, because without a college degree a person does not have enough education to be truly successful.

Morton’s argument is flawed because it

(A) assumes what it sets out to conclude - CORRECT. What it intends to show it proves it by assuming it.

(B) mistakes a correlation for a cause - WRONG. 2nd best but it is not causation when its about the conclusion is made.

(C) draws a highly general conclusion from evidence about individual cases - WRONG. Not individual cases but a set of cases covered under "many".

(D) fails to consider the status of alleged counterexamples - WRONG. Considers but it is rejected in the passage.

(E) bases its conclusion on the supposition that most people believe in that conclusion - WRONG. Not in scope of passage. There is no such supposition.
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