Logging Companies Are Always More Profitable If They Are Able

question 54

Multiple Choice

Logging companies are always more profitable if they are able to harvest more (rather than less) lumber in a month. If you concluded from that fact that the logging industry is more profitable if all of the firms in the industry harvest more, then you would be

• A)right.
• B)wrong because causation and correlation are not the same.
• C)wrong and have fallen victim to the fallacy of composition.
• D)wrong because firms operate on jealousy.

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