Reviewer: The book Art’s Decline argues that European painters today lack skills that were common among European painters of preceding centuries. In this the book must be right, since its analysis of 100 paintings, 50 old and 50 contemporary, demonstrates convincingly that none of the contemporary paintings are executed as skillfully as the older paintings.
Which of the following points to the most serious logical flaw in the reviewer’s argument?

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Correct Answer is :  The paintings chosen by the book’s author for analysis could be those that most support the book’s thesis.

GMAT Verbal Reasoning Practice Test 6