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In 90 percent of the commercial airline accidents last year, one or another of a group consisting of only 18 percent of the world's commercial airlines was involved. Since the other 82 percent of airlines were generally flying the same types of airplanes as the accident-prone airlines, significant differences in safety procedures must have been responsible for these differences In safety records.
Which of the following, if true about the world's commercial airlines last year, most seriously weakens the argument above?
Editorial: For the past two years, our dty has used photo radar to enforce speed limits at several Intersections, automatically photographing cars, measuring their speeds, and mailing tickets to offending drivers. In the second year of the program, the annual number of violations observed by photo radar dropped by 5 percent. This shows that the program has been effective at reducing speeding on the monitored streets.
The editorial's reasoning is most vulnerable to criticism on which of the following grounds?
As much as. experience influences human preferences and values, the loss of firsthand experience with nature is likely to contribute to a reduced valuation of biodiversity by humans in the future—a dismal prospect for the diversity of life.