"为我所用"小组第十二次作业argument200

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TOPIC: ARGUMENT200 - Statistics collected from dentists indicate that three times more men than women faint while visiting the dentist. This evidence suggests that men are more likely to be distressed about having dental work done than women are. Thus, dentists who advertise to attract patients should target the male consumer and emphasize both the effectiveness of their anesthetic techniques and the sensitivity of their staff to nervous or suffering patients.

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    The arguer suggests that dentists should pay more attention to their advertisement to show their sophisticated anesthetic skills and the sensitivity of their staff to mollify those nervous and suffering patients. To support his conclusion, the arguer quotes a statistics and discusses it as a reason. But through careful scrutiny of this passage, it is not difficult to pick out some fatal fallacies from it which can lead the arguer's conclusion to be ineffective.
    Firstly, the statistics which has been quoted by the arguer fails to support his conclusion about the advertisement of those dentists. There is not any detail about the data from the statistics. What can help the arguer get the result that to women three times more men faint in front of the treatment of dentists? Maybe it has been got by the arguer from a survey. Maybe it is a statistical data from a medical magazine. But we can not make clear how many men and women have been included in the survey. If the number is low, the result of the statistics will be ineffective and it will fail to support the arguer's conclusion.
    Secondly, even if the statistics in the first sentence of this passage is true, it can not lead the same conclusion as has been presented by the arguer in his second sentence. Men faint more frequently than women can not imple that men get more suffering then women while visiting dentists. The faints of men may due to other factors rather than aching. For example, nervousness, fear of blood, fear of tools of dentists. Sometimes, people fall into unconsciousness before they suffer. Thus, the reason from the quoted statistics is unreasonable, and definitely fails to support the final conclusion.
    Thirdly, the suggestion given by the arguer on the advertisements of the arguer also fails. Let alone the male and female issue. The arguer believes that if the advertisements of dentists focus on the sophisticated skills of them on anesthetic skills and dealing with the nervousness and suffering, the dentists will be attractive. But I say this kind of advertisement will take an opposite effect. You have emphasized the nervousness and suffering in dental treatment in the advertisement which can cause more fear of the patients and it will certainly prevent patients from visiting the offerer of this kind of advertisement.
    Given the discussion above, the arguer's conclusion is ineffective. More shoud be done or thought about by him to support his conclusion or to make him discard it.