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argument 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.

前提，男人比女人晕得多。男女病人的各自总数没有提，有可能男人牙病的多
男人比女人看牙医容易紧张。女人可能也紧张，但不是晕，还有其它的表现，比如说心里，还有的干脆不去
没人说医生敏感和麻醉能缓解病人的紧张，有可能紧张是由恐血症或别人先前的痛苦经验引起的;也有可能男性神经敏感要承受更多的痛苦

The argument recommends that dentist's advertisement should focus on the male client accenting the effectiveness of anesthetic
techniques and sensitivity to the pain of consumers. To better support the assertion, the material mentions the statistics report indicating
that more men than women faint while visiting the dentist. However, close scrutiny of the material might show us some flaws
undermining the speaker's deduction.

First of all, the speaker's conclusion depends on the statistics collected from dentists. But here comes no information of the
dentists, if the figures are collected from some hospitals of a region, the report will lose its universality. The second factor make
this statistics report unconvincing is that the number of patients contributing to this survey is not mentioned by speaker; without
the information, it is hard to promise the number of samples is larger enough to make the report statistically significant. Moreover,
As we have no idea of the number of male patients contributing to the statistics, we cannot rule out the possibility that male patients
are more than female ones in total. If that is the case, it is no wonder that three times more men than women faint at dentist.

Secondly, the speaker asserts that male patients are more distressed than female consumers when having dental work. Although the
statistics to support the statement are given, the speaker still fails to consider other possible reasons which could also cause
the difference between men and women. Perhaps the women are also nervous and distressed while visiting dentists, but they may perspire
instead of faint facing dentists and sometimes even fear to go to clinique. If that is the case, it may undermine the assertion made by
speaker.

Finally, even if the assertion is true, we cannot draw a conclusion that the effectiveness of anesthetic and sensitivity to consumers would
help to relieve the tension of patients. Here again the speaker fails to consider other possible reasons which could also cause the
strain of male consumers. Consider, for example, the nerve of men might be more sensitive to pain than that of women. Without further
research of the sensitivity to pain in both sexes, we cannot make sure that the effectiveness of recent anesthetic would give more
help to male patients to cover the strain. Moreover, the strain might be caused by fear of bleeding or previous painful experience,
we cannot promise the sensitivity to patients would take effect in relieving the mental strain mentioned above.

In sum, the argument is unconvincing as it stands. To make the viewpoint more authentic, speaker should show us more information about
the statistics concerned and consider other possible reasons which could also cause the difference between men and women. To better
support the conclusion, it is author's duty to prove that the effectiveness of recent anesthetic and the sensitivity to male patients
would help to relieve the strain.