A lot of people are like Mangione in this regard, ready to latch onto random explanations for their discontent, with little regard to whether it's factual or logical.

"I can't find and I don’t think there can be a logical answer. It can only be bad will from ITIA, the organization that has done absolutely everything to destroy me despite the evidence."

The next logical step was to look at death rates, Deshmukh said.

The most logical hypothesis is that manatees were then later "present only in very low numbers in Florida as occasional visitors from the Caribbean and then settled here permanently," Pluckhahn said.

The tasks included determining the logical order of two statements, or answering questions involving physical reasoning, such as how to separate an egg white from a yolk or how to make a cup of tea.