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hh_915UID: 185160

The following appeared in a memo from the president of a company that builds and sells new homes in Steel City.

"Over the past five years, the population of Steel City has increased by more than 20 percent, and family incomes in Steel City have risen much faster than the national average. Nationwide, sales of houses priced above $150,000 have increased more than have sales of lower-priced houses. Such data indicate that we should make changes in our business to increase company profits. First, we should build fewer low-priced houses than we did last year and focus instead on building houses designed to sell at above $150,000. Second, we should hire additional workers so that we can build a larger total number of houses than we did last year."


The president of the building company in Steel City considers that their company should build fewer low-priced houses and focus instead on houses that can be sold above $150.000, and they should hire additional workers to build more houses, in order to increase company profits. However, his or her reasons are controversial.

First, the arguer fails to show what kind of the population of Steel City that has increased by more than 20 percent over the past five years. Are they all babies who could not even buy a match? Are they poor to can only afford rent?

Then, the argument recommends family incomes in Steel City have risen much faster than the national average. But the speed of rise of incomes in a city does not represent the incomes are high enough to buy more houses. If the family incomes in Steel City are low originally, however the speed of rise is, no one can promise the family incomes in Steel City will be higher than national average. And the arguer does not tell us how about the change of price level in nationwide and Steel City. If the price level changes with the family incomes, the people that could not afford houses may could not either.

Thirdly, it is very constrainedly to conclude the house sales in Steel City from the national sales. Even if the national sales of houses priced above $15000,000 have increased, the sales in Steel City may still low, because the citizens may be able to afford only low-priced houses.

Finally, there is no reason to hire more workers. We do not know how about the effect of the workers now. The workers may rest more than work in a year. The company may enhance the effect of workers so that the workers now in the company may be enough.

The president need to think carefully before making any decision about the development of the company, and had better to invest more the status of the city.

hh_915UID: 185160

就这么石沉大海了，自己顶一下，大家帮帮忙，说两句

flyingwindUID: 189320

展开不足啊

imjasonUID: 176604

确实感觉很单薄的

圣光UID: 193720

觉得确实有点单薄。
可能想面面俱到，反而不好。
这样还不如集中力量去写其中的两个方面。
似乎argument不需要把所有的逻辑错误都挑出来，
主要在于你的逻辑结构和论证深度。

hh_915UID: 185160

何为论证深度呢？ARGU不就是要找逻辑错误吗，找出来，改正了，不就行了吗？怎么能表现出深度呢？希望了解一下大家的想法。