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LR 223 · Flaw in the Reasoning

The city's new electric scooter program requires riders to complete a safety course before their first ride. Since the program began, scooter-related emergency room visits have fallen by 30 percent. A transportation official concludes that the safety course caused the decline in injuries.

The argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it

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A takes for granted that completing a safety course is the only way to reduce scooter injuries B fails to consider that scooter ridership may have declined since the program began, which alone could explain the drop in injuries C confuses evidence that riders enjoyed the safety course with evidence that the course reduced injuries D presumes that emergency room visits accurately measure the total number of scooter injuries E relies on a sample of scooter riders too small to support a general conclusion