194A 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 these executives wrote with 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.
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This argument recommends that left-handed people should pursue a career in business, whereas right-handed people should imitate left-handers in business practices. To justify the recommendation, the author cites a recent study of 1,000 prominent business executives in photographs and showing that the percentage of left-handers in these photos are higher than in the general population; according to the study, the researchers suggest that left-handed people are more likely to succeed in business than are right-handed people. The argument suffers from several serious flaws, which render it unconvincing.
"The argument suffers from several serious flaws, which render it unconvincing. ",当初我用的是:"However, with close scrutiny, the argument tends to suffer from several fallacies, rendering it unconvincing...