Question

Regardless of what Jim says, baseball is a more refined sport than ice hockey. This is so because more refined people watch baseball rather than ice hockey. You can tell which people are more refined simply by the fact that they prefer the more refined sport to the less refined one.

A logical criticism of the argument above would emphasize that it
A) establishes a general rule on the basis of one experience
B) appeals to questionable authority
C) engages in circular reasoning
D) attacks a speaker's reputation, rather than addressing his argument
E) fails to five exceptions to a general rule