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Argument 89
[The following appeared in a memo at XYZ company.]”
When XYZ lays off employees, it pays Delany Personnel Firm to offer those employees assistance in creating résumés and developing interviewing skills, if they so desire. Laid-off employees have benefited greatly from Delany's services: last year those who used Delany found jobs much more quickly than did those who did not. Recently, it has been proposed that we use the less expensive Walsh Personnel Firm in place of Delany. This would be a mistake because eight years ago, when XYZ was using Walsh, only half of the workers we laid off at that time found jobs within a year. Moreover, Delany is clearly superior, as evidenced by its bigger staff and larger number of branch offices. After all, last year Delany's clients took an average of six months to find jobs, whereas Walsh's clients took nine."
[Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.]
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In this argument, the speaker considers that Delany Personnel Firm (DP) can provide best service on dealing with the issue about job finding of the laid-off employees from the XYZ company. Also, he believes another firm, Walsh Personnel Firm (WP), cannot rival DP. This argument seems plausible at the first glance, but after a careful scrutiny on it, we may find the whole argument is based on some assumptions without well substantiated, therefore leading this argument untenable somehow.
First off, the writer simply owes all contributions to DP service that makes those laid-off employees find jobs quickly without considering other possible reasons. It is likely that those who take the service of DP are fairly eager to get another job, while others do not share this strong desire. Therefore, the real reason why those taking DP service get job faster than others could be due to their activation for job hunting instead of the service itself. Also, what DP firm provides is only the resume creating service and instruction of interviewing skills. There is no evidence showing whether the service provided by DP is good enough for an obvious promotion which will boost the trainees’ abilities dramatically, since we do not know the original personal abilities of the learners. Maybe they are already in good ability of resume and interviews. In a word, it requires evidence to further prove whether DP can provide a good service to promote job finding for the lay-off employees.
Secondly, when comparing with WP, the writer assumes the more staff, the more offices, the better quality of service on job hunting. Therefore he concludes that DP is better than WP. How to prove it? In fact, the number of staff and offices simply provides nothing direct about the real quality service of a firm. It is likely that WP is well managed and able to provide a service with a lower cost, which is more comprehensive and of better quality than DP. Without information in detail to show the real strength of each firm in all different angles, it is difficult to tell which one is better regarding of the number of staff and offices only.
Finally, the writer considers the average time taking a trainee to find job can portray the quality of the service of a firm at best. But the average value in fact cannot tell the real situation, or even blind us. After all, the sample sizes of these two firms are unknown. Maybe DP only provided service to 10 clients, and MP did to 100. Based on simple statistic knowledge, the result of DP could be inaccurate due to the small sampling and large uncertainty. In addition, we do not know what kind of jobs the clients of these two firms got. Some jobs may take longer time to match than others. Therefore, this comparison on average time could be senseless due to its poor comparability.
In sum, without careful substantiation, the writer hastily concludes the service of DP benefits the laid-off employees for sure. Also, he concludes that the DP service is better than WP when lacking necessary evidence to prove the validity of his assumptions. Further study is required to clarify the uncertainty generated from the assumptions discussed above. Otherwise, no conclusion can be obtained.
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发表于 2011-10-25 21:52:37
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