Psychologist: On average, people who read at least one book a month for pleasure go far
more frequently to museums, concerts, and sporting events than do people who read less
than one book a year. This shows that recreational reading tends to promote a healthy
interest in other social and cultural activities.
The psychologist's argument is most vulnerable to criticism on which of the following grounds?
(A) It overlooks the possibility that the more time one spends on recreational reading, on
average, the less time will remain available for other social and cultural activities.
(B) It takes for granted that the greater a person's level of interest in an activity, the more often
the person participates in that activity.
(C) It overlooks the possibility that two or more phenomena may tend to occur together even if
none of those phenomena causally contributes to any of the others
(D) It fails to adequately address the possibility that, even if one phenomenon tends to produce
a certain effect, other phenomena may also contribute to that effect.
(E) It takes for granted that frequent attendance of museums, concerts, and sporting events
does not tend to reduce interest in recreational reading.