Argument 200【0906G 文以载道三月四月小组】2.12日作业by sosososo1114

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200 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.


Conclusion: 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

Reason: men are more likely to be distressed about having dental work done than women are.
Assumption:
1.
There are more male than women faint while visiting the dentist.(
2.
faint was caused by distressed,
Evidence:
Statistics collected from dentists indicate that three times more men than women faint while visiting the dentist

Fallacies:
1.
no more information about staticstic to support his assumption
2.
Overlook the possibilities faint was caused by other factors.
3.
another false causes.

The article assumes that male are much easier to get faint than female are during visiting the dentists. To support this assumption, the article cites statistic from dentists. Further more, the author assumes that faint is caused by distressed. Considering both this and the statistic cited, the article claims that men are more likely to be distressed about having dental work done than women are. On the basis of this reasoning line, the article concludes: 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.

In the first place, the statistics cited in the article lend little credible supports to the first assumption. We know nothing about the sex proportion of the respondent, which influences the credit of the assumption significantly. Perhaps total number of male clienteles is five times as large as female clienteles. If it is true, the assumption will be overturned. Neither we know the age structure of each sex, if there are more male children than female ones in the respondent, it’s also pontifical to assert that man are easier to get faint. Even more, perhaps the cases that show both sexes faint make up a tiny proportion of the total case number. Under this condition, the assumption seems unreasonable, as well. Thus, the article is undermined by this assumption.

Further more, the article irrationally claims that the faint during dental work is caused by distress, overlooking other factors leading to the same results. It is highly possible that the faint is caused by overdose anesthetic. It is also possible that there are more male than female faint caused by allergy to the anesthetic. It is even possible that the clienteles who appeared faint were just falling asleep.

Last but not the least, it is questionable that will achieve the goals attracting clienteles dentists’ advertisement that focus on both the effectiveness of their anesthetic techniques and the sensitivity of their staff to nervous or suffering patients. As all we know, we are more sensitive to sufferings than comfort. Such an advertisement, to the audiences’ view, indicates potential sufferings during the dental work, rather than placation that the clinic plans to offer. In additional, compared with male, who are interested in sports games and new, it is more likely that female will keep their eyes on such a kind of advertisements. Hence, the advertisements should not target male only.