A recent survey showed that 50 percent of people polled believe that elected officials should resign if indicted for a crime, wh

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问题 A recent survey showed that 50 percent of people polled believe that elected officials should resign if indicted for a crime, whereas 35 percent believe that elected officials should resign only if they are convicted of a crime. Therefore, more people believe that elected officials should resign if indicted than believe that they should resign if convicted. The reasoning above is flawed because it

选项 A、draws a conclusion about the population in general based only on a sample of that population.
B、confuses a sufficient condition with a required condition.
C、is based on an ambiguity of one of its terms.
D、draws a conclusion about a specific belief based on responses to queries about two different specific beliefs.
E、contains premises that cannot all be true.

答案B

解析 本题推理中假设那些认为仅当选举产生的官员被宣判有罪时就应辞职的人数与那些认为选举产生的官员被宣判有罪时就应辞职的人数是一样的,因此本题论证的推理把充分条件与必要条件相混淆,所以(B)是正确答案。
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