求拍argue 1
in this argument the author conclude that Natrue's Way, a chain of stores selling health food and health related products should build another store in PS. the basis of the recommendation is that the resident in PS leads a healthy life. the author cites (1) the running shoes and exercise clothing are at all-times high.(2) the club recently received more customers.(3) schoolchildren in PS are required to participate a health program as example. however, i found this argument is flawed in several critical respects.
in the first place, the arguer commits a fallacy of hasty generalization. the slim information that the high sales of the apparel is far from being enough to guarantee that the excise is popular in the region. perhaps to the residents in PS, wearing simple, comfortable and leisured exercise clothing is their hobby, which is due to their easy life and sufficient spare time rather than their healthy life style. so if the author wants to convince me to believe that the resident in PS are in the habit of regular exercise, he must gather more sufficient evidences to show that.
analysis on the other two example in the argument reveal the same problem mentioned above. perhaps the the club's members ust follow a fashion at the moment. it's the curiosity and the fashion, rather than the hobby of exercise, that drive them attend the aerobics class and weight training. I suggest that the author should give some further investigation in order to find out their motivation if they are really love exercising or not. similarly, we can't simply expect that a program of "fitness for life" will arouse the children's enthusiasm about exercise without any further investigation on it. As a consequence, we need more details to evaluate the program's impact on the children's habit of exercise.
even if taking excise in PS is popular than ever before, the author fails to establish a causal relationship between willing to lead a healthy life and the possible high sales of health food and health related products. the people in PS may like taking regular exercise to keep their body in health but don't have interest or aren't rich enough to buy health food or health related product. moreover, the arguer fails to consider and rule out other factors may affect the sales of their product, such as the other competitors who also sell this kind of product.
in conclusion, this argument is unpersuasive as it stands. to convince me that opening another store in PS will profitable, the arguer should provide clear evidence that people in PS really like excising. besides, to better evaluate this argument, the author also need to provide more clear evidence to show that the residents in PS will interested in their product besides their hobby of regular exercise.
