Argument4【 超越自我小组】第一次作业by cartographer08

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Argument 4
Which real estate film is better?
The following was posted on an Internet real estate discussion site.
Of the two leading real estate firms in our town-Adams Realty and Fitch Realty-Adams is clearly superior. Adams has 40 real estate agents. In contrast, Fitch has 25, many of whom work only part-time. Moreover, Adams' revenue last year was twice as high as that of Fitch, and included home sales that averaged $168,000, compared to Fitch's $144,000. Homes listed with Adams sell faster as well: ten years ago, I listed my home with Fitch and it took more than four months to sell; last year, when I sold another home, I listed it with Adams, and it took only one month. Thus, if you want to sell your home quickly and at a good price, you should use Adams.

In the poster on an internet real estate discussion site, the arguer concludes that using Adams will help to sell one’s home quickly and at a good price. To support his conclusion, he points out that Adams has 40 real estate agents, which is more than the 25 of Fitch, and that Adams’s revenue last year was twice as high as that of Fitch. In addition, the arguer cites the example of his own experience of home selling. A careful examination of this argument would reveal how groundless it is.

First, the arguer unfairly assumes that Fitch Really necessarily sells homes slower than Adams Realty. The arguer cites the example of his own experience that selling one of his houses using one month by Adams last year, which is faster than another home using 4 months by Fitch ten years ago. However, the arguer ignores the fact that the condition for selling home might be changing. Perhaps it was the best house selling season in last year and the worse in the past decade, therefore Fitch doesn’t certainly sold a house slower than Adams in the same condition.

Second, the arguer simply assumes that Adams can sell every home at a better price than Fitch, and that Adams can gain a higher profit than that of Fitch’s. Maybe the home sold by Adams has a higher value than that of Fitch. So even Adams could sell this home at a good price; the profit might still be lower than that of Fitch. Moreover, the mere fact that Adam’s revenue was twice as high as that of Fitch does not necessarily indicate that Adam’s profit was higher than that of Fitch.

Third, the mere fact that Adams has real estate agents more than Fitch’s 25 and partially part-time workers could not lend to conclusion that Adams Realty was better than Fitch Realty. When we evaluate firm, it is common sense that having a larger number of workers didn’t mean a better firm; there are many other factors to be considered such as management, efficient and quality of agent. Maybe it does work in some commercial fields that the more employers, the better it operates. But to the real estate area, we couldn’t come to the same conclusion unless the arguer gives more evidence about this “law”.

In summary, this argument is not persuasive as it stands, at least base on this post. To make it more convincing, the arguer would have to provide more evidence concerning that Adams do sell the same type of house more quickly than Fitch. To better evaluate the argument, we would need more information regarding Adams’ better selling price than Fitch and influence of number of workers on better price.

[ 本帖最后由 cartographer08 于 2008-8-6 09:49 编辑 ]

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argu也不能按时写完……
昨天的作业，今天补上。

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cartographer08UID: 2523568

好的，等着啦:)