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从2005年0月17日18时17分到2005年0月17日18时30分
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According to a poll of 200 charitable organizations, donations of money to nonprofit groups increased by nearly 25 percent last year, though not all charities gained equally. Religious groups gained the most (30 percent), followed by environmental groups (23 percent), whereas educational institutions experienced only a very small increase in donations (3 percent). This poll indicates that more people are willing and able to give money to charities but that funding for education is not a priority for most people. These differences in donation rates must result from the perception that educational institutions are less in need of donations than are other kinds of institutions.
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Citing the result of a poll of 200 charitable organizations, the author concludes that though more people are willing and able to give money to charities, funding for education is not a priority for most people as they regard educational institutions less in need of donations than other institutions. Careful examination of this supporting evidence, however, reveals that it lends little support to the author's claim.

To begin with, the author fails to convince me that the result of the poll is statistically reliable, without supplying enough information about if the samples are representative of overall institutions. To support a poll's reliability, the author has to supply me with that the size of sample, 200, is indeed large enough to representative the overall institutions' conditions. As we all know, the more constitutions relative, the less reliable the result is. Absent the evidence that these 200 institutions can exactly represent the whole conditions of institutions, I can not accept the claim cited by the author.

Even if the result of the poll is reliable one, there is no evidence that the exact amount of funding received by educational institutions is less than other kinds of institutions. The author just provide the increase rate of the funding in the three kinds of institutions, which is not sufficient to prove that the educational institution attract less funding than other institutions. Perhaps, the educational institutions have received much more funding than any other institutions all the time, and the increase rate, 3%, can mean actually a large amount of money. Or perhaps, the increase rate of educational institutions is the third among all institutions, just behind environmental and religious institutions. Without ruling out these possibilities, the author can not convince me that people are less willing to give funding to educational institutions.

Moreover, the author fails to rule out the possibility that there are, in fact, less donors compared to years before. It is possible that the number of donors decrease, while the amount of money donated by per donor increases, which can also cause an increase in the total amount of donation.

Last but not least, the authors fails to persuade me that it is because of the perception that educational institutions are less in need of donations than other kind of institutions that lead to a smaller increase rate.  It is possible that people are more interesting in donated in religion and environment for individual favor. Or perhaps, people think that funding in education is easier to misuse than in other kinds of institutions. Or it is likely that people regard it a duty of government to support the survival of education but not individuals themselves.

In sum, the author fails to provide sufficient evidence to support such a claim. To better bolster the claim the author must provide enough evidence to prove that the results of the poll is reliable, and that people are indeed less willing to donate educational institutions. To better evaluate the claim, I need to know that whether educational institutions receive a less amount of funding than other kinds of institutions and whether the increase rate of the funding in educational institutions is smaller than any other kinds of institutions. Also useful would be more evidence that people choose other institution as result of the perception that educational institutions are less in need of donations than other kinds of institutions but not for other reasons.

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