A recent study monitored the blood pressure of people petting domestic animals in the laboratory. The blood pressure of some of these people lowered while petting the animals. Ttherefore, for any one of the people so affected, owning a pet would result in that person having a lower average blood pressure.
 The flawed pattern of reasoning in the argument above is most similar to that in which riding in a boat for a few minutes is relaxing for some people, those people would be more relaxed generally if those people owned boats.