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发表于 2009-3-14 09:24:53 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

The following is a recommendation from the personnel director to the president of Acme Publishing Company.
"Many other companies have recently stated that having their employees take the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course has greatly improved productivity. One graduate of the course was able to read a five-hundred-page report in only two hours; another graduate rose from an assistant manager to vice president of the company in under a year. Obviously, the faster you can read, the more information you can absorb in a single workday. Moreover, Easy Read costs only $500 per employee-a small price to pay when you consider the benefits to Acme. Included in this fee is a three-week seminar in Spruce City and a lifelong subscription to the Easy Read newsletter. Clearly, Acme would benefit greatly by requiring all of our employees to take the Easy Read course."

The notion that Acme would greatly benefit if all of its employees take the Easy Read course seems to be obviously concluded at first glance. After all, the personnel director mentions that many companies have greatly improved their productivity and two graduates have gotten promotion after attending the course to back up her or his view supportive and productive. However,
a careful and thorough examination of this argument will prove how irrational and groundless it is.

To begin with, the mere evidence from the two graduates is not strong enough to support the claim that graduates would get a lot of helps from the course. The director unfairly overlooks other possible reasons which also can explain the evidence. It is entirely possible that the graduate cannot remember the important details after having read the five-hundred-page report or he or she can read that fast before having taken the course. If so, the course is useless. In addition, the graduate who has gotten promotion may have some other extraordinary abilities which meet for the position he or she has gotten rather than being able to read fast. In short, without accounting for such possible explanations, the direct cannot convince me that Easy Read Speed-Reading Course really help the graduates a lot in their work.

Furthermore, even if this course does help the employees greatly, it does not necessarily indicate that it will bring great benefits for Acme. The director fails to consider some other possible aspects. It may well be that Acme, a publishing company, does not need its employees to absorb so much information for the work in a single workday. So that Easy Read Speed-Reading Course would not bring any significant benefit for Acme. Even assuming that the course will improve working efficiency and some other conditions we can not figure out the profits it brings are more than the costs for the course only based on the evidence the director provides. If not, the $500 per employees is not worthy. Besides, the employees who take this course will take a three-week leave, which will also result in much lost to Acme. Since the author fails to rule out such possibilities, it is untenable to draw any conclusion that the course will bring great benefits for Acme.

Finally, even assuming Acme will get a lot of benefits from the course; it is still too hasty to draw the conclusion that all employees should take this Easy Read course. Do all employees in Acme need fast reading ability? It is possible that there are some employees of Acme whose positions do not require fast reading ability but some other special abilities, just like cover designers who need excellent design capability rather fast reading capability. This would result in unnecessary costs in training all employees that would affect the profits of the company. Without better evidence, the author cannot draw any firm conclusion that all employees should take the Easy Read course.

In conclusion,
the recommendation relies on certain doubtful assumptions that render it unconvincing as it stands. In order to persuade me that all the employees of Acme should take the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course, the author must supply clear evidence that it is necessary that every employee of Acme should take the course and the company will significantly benefit from this course. To better assess the recommendation, I would need to know more about the comparisons of most graduates’ working capabilities both before and after the course.

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