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194.A recent study suggests that people who are left-handed are more likely to succeed in business than are right-handed people. Researchers studied photographs of 1,000 prominent business executives and found that 21 percent of these executives wrote with their left hand. So the percentage of prominent business executives who are left-handed (21 percent) is almost twice the percentage of people in the general population who are left-handed (11 percent). Thus, people who are left-handed would be well advised to pursue a career in business, whereas people who are right-handed would be well advised to imitate the business practices exhibited by left-handers.

In this argument, the arguer asserts that left-handed people are more probably to succeed in business than right-handed people. To support his point of view he cites a recent study which results from photographs of 1000 influential business executives and shows that 21% of them wrote with their left hand. What's more, the arguer draws the conclusion that right-handed people is always advised to copy the business practices of left-handers, who must be always advised to pursue a career in business. In my point of view, this argument is unconvincing as it is based on faulty reasoning and full of problematic deduction.

First and foremost, the recent study is crammed with flaws. The researchers merely based their conclusion on 1000 photographs rather than direct investigation. As we all knows, photographs can be taken in purpose so that some of the business executives made a mistake when they posed. It also can be the case that the photographers modified these photographs especially exchanged the left and right after they took them. Hence, these photographs are not persuasive as evidences.

Besides, assuming that these photographs have not been amended and can reflect the reality, there are still some defects which weaken the argument. The arguer confuses people writing with left hand with the left-handed people. It is entirely possible that there is someone who can use both hands to write and someone who writes with left hand but use right hand to do other things such as eating and painting.

Finally, even if the uncertain evidences above turn out to be true, the argument is still fraught with problems. Although there are 21% of these executives are left-handed, the fact that 11% people are left-handed in the general population could not substantiate that left-handers are more likely to succeed in business. The arguer ignores proportion of left-handers to right-handers among all businessmen. Perhaps the numbers of them are almost the same or perhaps more than 21% of all businessmen are left-handed people, which can prove that right-handed people are more likely to succeed in business.

In summary, this argument is based on mere speculation with absolutely no cause and effect evidence presented to show that left-handed people are more probable to achieve in business. To better evaluate the argument I would need to know the very fact that whether these 1000 prominent business executives are left-handers and what is the proportion of left-handed people to right-handed people among all businessmen.

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