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 comsumer and emphasize both the effectivenes of their anesthetic techniques and the sensitivity of their staff to nervous or suffering patients.
The speaker's assertion is that the dental advertisment should target male comsumer and emphasize both the effectiveness of their anesthetic techniques and the sensitivity of their staff to nervous or suffering patients. To support the statement the speaker cites a statistics collected from dentists indicate that three times more men than women faint while visiting the dentist. Based on the statistics the speaker reasons that men are more likely to be distressed about having dental work done than women are. I find this argument is not well supported, as follewing discussion shows.
the speaker do not provide the detailed number of men and women go to visit the dentist in this collected statistics. Then we can not eliminate the assume that perhaps men patients' number is far more than women, which leads to the three times more difference in faint. Unless the speaker offers direct quantities to confirm us that the base of both men and women was the same, I can not come to the conclusion that men are more likely to be distressed about having dental work done than women are relies on such vague statistics.
Second, the speaker's assertion that the dental advertisement should target on male comsumer might lead to the loss of female patients, considering that female patients would feel being overlooked or regarding the dental clinnic as male exclusive, the increase numberof male patients might small than the decrease number of female patients.
Last but not the least, the speaker believes that advertisment emphasize on both the effectiveness of their anesthetic techniques and the sensitivity of their staff to nervous or suffering patients could attract comsumers, while it might not necessary the case , the speaker overlooked other possiblities which comsumers might interest such as the price of dental work or if the medical facilities is advanced. Since the speaker fails to integrated consider the comsumers' interests in advertisements, the dicision is unreliable as it stands.
In sum, to better asses the assertion the speaker needs to confirm us the conclusion that men are three times more than women in faint based on the same amount of men and women....