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发表于 2005-1-25 02:16:03
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Argument144.
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.
根据一项针对200个慈善组织的调查,去年对于非营利团体的捐款上升了将近25%,而并不是所有组织都获得了同样的增幅。宗教团体增幅最大(30%),其次为环境组织(23%),而教育机构所获捐款仅有少量增长(3%)。这一调查说明有更多的人愿意而且有能力为慈善组织捐款,但资助教育并不是人们的首选。这种捐款数额上的差异一定是由于人们认为教育机构没有其他组织更需要资助的观念而导致的。
一部分仿照imong的文章写的 ;) ,有些疑问:是否结尾也像开头一样可以略带一笔,而把99%精力用在正文上呢?
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Well-presented and seemingly logical at first glance, the argument can hardly stand up to any scrutiny for its several flaws.
Firstly, the poll cannot support the assertion above that more people are willing and able to give money to charities because its validity is worth questioning. The speaker did not mention the concrete location of region and the exact scope of the poll. 200 organizations may be not enough to represent all of the organizations or the summation. Maybe there are more than 2000 charities in the whole nation, these 200 organizations in this poll are only account for 10% and most located in the places, where people preferred to donate to charities with the well development of regional economy, while more organizations in other regions under the worse economic circumstances obtain less donations. Then this poll cannot indicate the overall situation of the whole nation. In addition, the amount of donations at last year should have been given. If these nonprofit groups only received 10 dollars the last year and 12.5 dollars this year, this is also an increase at rate of 25 percent, yet hardly can anyone say that more people are pleased to give money to charities.
Secondly, even if we concede that most charity organizations obtained more donations is in fact, we cannot assume that funding for education is not a priority for most people. The proportion of different kinds of organizations in this poll has not been given at all. It is possible the number of educational institutions is much more than that of religious and environmental groups. For example, there may be 190 educational institutes, which all acquire some fund, and not each of the rest 10 groups gain donations. Perhaps certain renowned religious organization and one famous environmental group receiving a large amount of money lead to the rise of the total rate. Further, what is the respective income of different kinds of groups? Common sense tells us the increase of rate does not represent the amount. The speaker fails to calculate how much money does each group gain.It is posible that the total donation of all environmental groups is only 1000 dollars last year, while educational institutes received 1,000,000 dollars during the same period, if so it would be apparent 3 percent of the latter is much more than 23 percent of the former. In this case, it is possible most people prefer to donate money to education rather than other charities.
Finally, Even if we accept that funding for education is not precedence for most people, we cannot assert that these differences in donation rates are due to the perception that educational institutes are less in need of money. There are also alternative factors accounting for this phenomenon. Perhaps lots of donations are directly sent to the schools without passing the charitable organization for the reason that many schools have their own committee or office for financial donation, while most money donated to religious and environmental groups is always passed through charities. Thus it may be the different access of donation, not the supposed perception that leads to the differences in donation rates.
To sum up, perhaps the speaker has some otherwise sound reasons for the argument, but the evidences and reasoning mentioned above are not sufficient and well grounded. Therefore, any final conclusion should not be drawn unless more detailed and convincing evidences are available. |
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