题目:ARGUMENT200 - Statistics collected from dentists indicate that three times more men than women faint while visiting the dentist. This evidence suggests that men are more likely to be distressed about having dental work done than women are. Thus, dentists who advertise to attract patients should target the male consumer and emphasize both the effectiveness of their anesthetic techniques and the sensitivity of their staff to nervous or suffering patients.
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In this argument, the arguer suggests the dentist to target the male consumer. However, I cannot agree with this assertion, since there are some flaws as follows.
First of all, the arguer cites the statistics collected from dentists and this is unreliable. As the arguer have no details about this statistics. In addition, the sample ages, genders, backgrounds are also omitted in this statistics, which could not hold back people to discredit the reliability of this statistics.
What' more, the statistics indicate that three times more men than women is worth us to doubt. As there is no specific numbers of this men and women, so we cannot trust this indication of the statistics. Maybe there is only four men and one woman in the group. Maybe the men are the kind of easy-distressed and the women is not.
To sum up, in order to prove the dentist should target the male consumer, it is necessary to provide extensive and convincing proof. The arguer fails to do that.