Multiple choice

Recruitment agent: Job seekers do not possess as good writing skills as they used to. Almost all of the covering letters that I have got this year have been poorly written and ungrammatical. Which one of the following is the most serious weakness in the argument made by the recruitment agent?

  1. It requires corroboration that the change in the agent’s prospects is illustrative of a similar change among job seekers in general.

  2. It offers no evidence of the fact that the recruitment agent is an accurate assessor of writing skills.

  3. It does not take into consideration the possibility that the agent is a poor recruiter.

  4. It fails to present any evidence to the contrary.

  5. It fails to define key terms employed clearly.
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Explanation

The recruitment agent is making a generalization based on the specific cases observed by him/her which might or might not be representative of the general trend. This is stated clearly in option (1). Hence (1)

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