Judicial punishment's power to deter people from committing crimes ...

The pattern of reasoning in which one of the following arguments is most similar to the pattern of reasoning in the argument above?
(A) Success in attaining one's first academic job depends on the quality of one's dissertation and the amount of time spent working on it in graduate school. But sometimes, so much time is spent on a dissertation that it becomes too lengthy to be coherent and its quality suffers. So spending more time working on a dissertation can lead to less success in attaining a first academic job.
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*This question is included in Practice Set: "Parallel Structure" Questions, Set 2

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