T1W3 TS Q22 – Selective High School

Sandra’s a professional basketball player who’s been scouted by a team to play basketball in the USA. Thus, all professional basketball players who get scouted go to the USA to play.

Which one of the below sentences shows the mistake in the above argument?

The argument has used a small sample size and has applied it to the whole. Professional basketball players are not all paid large sums of money. NBA players are amongst the highest paid athletes in the world. Any professional basketball player has the same chance of being scouted as any other basketball players.

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Which one of the below sentences shows the mistake in the above argument?