【Flyer杀G作文组】1月26日作业Argument188

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      In this passage, the author cites a report which claims that there are obvious different between the male and female feeling about pains and make a research among a group of people whose wisdom teeth have been extracted in order to prove that doctor should reexamine the different untility of all kind of medine about on male and female. However, the reasoning contains several logical flaws, which redenrs it unconvincing.


To begin with, the report which claims the man and weman, generally, have different feelings about pains, cannot neccssarily sustain the recommendation that doctor should take this difference into considertion when prescribing. Everyone would naturally have inaccordant feeling even if facing the same things, but whether or not the doctor should take care of these depends on its importance. And author also does not provide more details about the relationship of the general conclusion of report and the certain kind of application, thereby we have no enough reason to agree with these implication. In this case, people who use the pain-killers just want to eliminate the severity of dislike feeling, so the effect examined may not seems as important as the author thought.

Moreover, the details of the whole project of the experiment should be reconsidered by us as well as the author. To prove a general rule, people are not supposed to simply make use some datas which obviously maintains the same characteristics. In this experiment, the researcher only use a group of people whose pains derived from the extraction of teeth, which equals to assume that there are no difference among the different kinds of pains. However, we cannot rule out these problems. Because it is probable that only on those kind of people( teech extracted) and their pains, the whole conclusion is ture, otherwise, the situation is different.


Even if we neglect of fallacy of the assumption of this experiment, there is still questionable factors during the reasoning. The fact that women having less pain and easing more quickly does not sufficently prove that it is advisable to recommend this medicine to women and vice versa. Because author has not clarifed whether the opioids is still useful in easing other kinds of pains. Furthermore, the authoer just simply believes that the less time and less feeling is better, which clearly neglect the side-effect of the medicine.

Even if we admit all of the reasoning and the conclusion is acceptable, author still could not prove that it is necessary to reevaluate the effect the of all kinds of medicines. After all, not all kinds of effects of pills are influnced by the gender diffecence.

To sum up, the argument above is not persuasive as it stands. To strengthen it the author should reexamine the importance of different echaracteristics and reconsider the experiment. And provide more details about the usage of different painkillers.