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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.

The author points out that the number of men who faint as visiting the dentist are greater than the women's according to the statistics collection provided by the dentist. He also cites that men are suffered more than women concerned about the collection mentioned above. On the basis of this line of reasoning, the author concludes that dentists should emphasis on male patients and at the same period of time pay more attention on the effectiveness of their anesthetic techniques and the keen awareness of their staff to the patients who feel nervous and miserable. The recommendation is logically flawed in several respects as I mention below.
First of all, the author unfairly assumes that the fainting times naturally account for the fact that men are easier than women to faint. In fact, the amount of times cannot stand for the proportion due to the possibility that male patients are more likely to see the dentist. Meanwhile, the reason to faint is not necessarily the suffering. Perhaps it is the difference of physical quality, or the severity of the illness. Without ruling out all the other possibilities, I still remain unconvinced to the recommendation.
Furthermore, the author recommends to attract more male patients unnecessarily. Perhaps the number of male is less. Lacking evidence to support the recommendation, it is entirely possible that female patients are also nervous as male. Perhaps they faint less, or on the other hand they are much more nervous than the male oppositely. If what I say above is the case, the author's recommendation is undermined apparently.
Finally, the author hastily focuses on the conclusion to relieve the suffering and the nervous of feeling without taking other elements into account. The sanitation should also be improved and other conditions such as technique, service or price are the key points, which to some extent determine the fate of the dentists' business. Thus, only in the way as the recommendation is actually vague and one-sided,
In sum, the recommendation is unpersuasive as it stands. To strength it , the author should provide more evidence about the accurate number of male patients and the factors which may lead to
faint. To better access the recommendation, I would need to know the other elements which can affect the dentists' business.