"My grandfather smoked and lived to 95. Smoking cannot be harmful." The flaw is:

A Appeal to emotion

B Generalizing from a single anecdote (hasty generalization)

C Circular reasoning

D False analogy

✓ Correct Answer: Option B

One person's experience cannot refute statistical evidence about smoking's harms. This is a classic hasty generalization from an unrepresentative sample of one.

💡 Why is B) the correct answer?

The correct answer to the question ""My grandfather smoked and lived to 95. Smoking cannot be harmful." The flaw is:" is Option B: Generalizing from a single anecdote (hasty generalization).

The other options — A) Appeal to emotion, C) Circular reasoning, D) False analogy — are incorrect for this LSAT Exam Prep question. As explained above: One person's experience cannot refute statistical evidence about smoking's harms. This is a classic hasty generalization from an unrepresentative sample of one.

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"My grandfather smoked and lived to 95. Smoking cannot be harmful." The flaw is:

✓ Correct Answer: Option B

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