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发表于 2005-3-21 23:57:09 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

Argument 194 Left-handed people and success in business

A recent study suggests that people who are left-handed are more likely to succeed in business than are right-handed people. Researchers studied photographs of 1,000 prominent business executives and found that 21 percent of executives wrote their left hand. So the percentage of prominent business executives who are left-handed (21 percent) is almost twice the percentage of people in the general population who are left-handed (11 percent). Thus, people who are left-handed would be well advised to pursue a career in business, whereas people who are right-handed would be well advised to imitate the business practices exhibited by left-handers.

晚上写的,大家看看给点意见,第一次发贴,呵呵.
btw:请问考作文的时候是不是很多人在一起,然后敲击键盘的声音很壮观啊,
今天在机房写,被旁边一个哥们强烈骚扰,好象是在聊天.所以我不幸超时了,呵呵
如果考试的时候也是这样,不是就挂了.我抗干扰能力好差啊

This argument recommends that all the left-handed people would be well advised to pursue a career in business, because the evidence in a recent study has suggested that people who are left-handed are more likely to succeed in business. In the study, the researchers studied photographs of 1,000 prominent business executives and found that the percentage of prominent business executives who are left-handed (21 percent) is almost twice the percentage of people in the general population who are left-handed (11 percent). This argument is seemingly well supported, while in fact it is flawed in several respects.

To be the first, the author doesn’t provide enough evidence to substantiate the result of the study is statistical representative of the whole group. Only 1,000 subjects are involved in this research and the research is based on the studying of the photographs of 1,000 prominent business executives. In the photographs, a person's writing his or her left hand doesn’t necessarily mean that he or she is a left-handed person and it is entire the opposite. Common technology tells us that the subject in the photographs may be just opposite to the real situation due to the process of its . Moreover, many prominent of the executives achieve their nowadays status not by means of the struggling but through other means such as familial relationships. In short, the statistical representation of the subjects is too rare to support the argument and the photographs in themselves prove little about the causal relationship between left-handedness and the ability to succeed in business.

Secondly, the study fails to do the parallel studies in other fields. Even if it is true that in the business field left-handed people are more likely to succeed by their efforts, the author overlooks the possibility that they might do better in any other filed which they would find more interesting. For examples, left-handed people have some super ability due to their different ways of actions, thus, different areas of their brain are more used than the common right-handed people. For this reason, they might own the super accurate ability to distinguish one subject from several similar ones. In this way, they maybe good at identifying the fake artwork through particular observation. So, lacking the data form the parallel studies in other fields, it's really hard to convince me that left-handedness would surely lead to success in business.

Finally, even though it is a good advice that left-handed people devote more to gain their success in the business filed, the advice that the author gives the right-handed people is totally unreasonable. Common sense informs me that any innate acumen with which the left-handed people might be endowed cannot be imitated by the right-handed people because these innate acumen are caused by the special structure of the brains of the left-handed ones. To mention a famous person Einstein, his brain is special in some area and it is just that leads to his great achievements in scientific field which could not be caught up by anyone else yet. Were there be the ability to imitate the special thinking way of Einstein, more Einsteins would have appeared, while in fact, there is none. In short, without considering and ruling out this possibility the author cannot convince me that right-handed people should imitate the business practices of left-handed people.

In sum, this argument is logically unsound. To strengthen it the author should provide a larger sample much more than 1,000 subjects and must show that the executives in the photos were in fact using their dominant hand and also they are representative of all prominent executives. To better assess the argument I would compare the percentage of left-handed people successful in business with whose who in other fields and I think the information about the feasibility of the imitation of innate acumen should be provided.

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