In the argument, the editorial says that the Mason City residents who are surveyed like recreational activity do not like to play in Mason river since the river is not clean. And the author asserts that the M city council needs to increase the budget to improve the publicly owned lands of MR. At first glance, the argument seems reasonable. However, after a careful test, there are a host of flaws in the argument.
First of all, the author provides no evidence that the survey is statistically reliable. In order to establish the correction between the river pollution and residents' entertainment, the survey's samples must be sufficient in size and representative of overall population of water sports. Lacking sufficiently reprehensive samples, whatsoever the author can not justifiablely rely on the study to draw any conclusion.
Even if there is no doubt about the survey, it still can not conclude that the city council need to improve the publically owned lands. The editorial says the river pollution results in that the civilians do not do water sports as often as before. It is entirely possible that other vogue entertainments attract them as TV and other forms of sports or it is also possible that the river is far from the city that one lead to retard the residents. Thus, lacking evidence concludes that it is necessary increase the improvement budget.
And even if the pollution of the river equally retard the passion of civilians, there is lacking evidence to support the necessary condition of increase the budget of publicly owned lands. Perhaps the land is perfect and do not need to improve any more, or perhaps there are many places waiting for imbursement in the poor city. It is no sufficient evidence to support the budget,
To sum up, the author's argument is unpersuasive as it stands. To strengthen it, the author should supply the related information concerning the survey and the evidence why residents do not play in the river. To assess the argument better, i also need to acquire the publically owned land condition and the life standard of the city.
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