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尽管不想用质疑事实性论据的客观性来支撑论点，显得强词夺理，不过这一篇似乎短时间内没找到很好的入手点。话说最近argument字数退步了，写完居然不上500. 最近发现VERBAL任务严峻，写作时间减少，保持热身与研究的状态。这一篇大家看看有什么问题，或者还有哪里可以入手剖析，欢迎来拍，谢谢大家~
[A87] In a study of the reading habits of Waymarsh citizens conducted by the University of Waymarsh, most respondents said they preferred literary classics as reading material. However, a second study conducted by the same researchers found that the type of book most frequently checked out of each of the public libraries in Waymarsh was the mystery novel. Therefore, it can be concluded that the respondents in the first study had misrepresented their reading preferences.
[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.]
1. 实验有误；
2. Check-out不代表最喜欢
3. 即使喜欢，也不代表R错误表达意见
Based on another study, the speaker asserts that the Waymarsh citizens in the first study had misrepresented their reading preferences. His argument seems plausible at a first glance. However, some assumptions made to support his position in this argument remain unproved.
First off, the writer assumes the second study is well preformed and of good accuracy, therefore, able to serve as a good proof for the results. How can we prove it? The study itself can be of problem and therefore unconvincing. Maybe the categories of books defined by the researchers are questionable. Maybe the researching period is not long enough to collect enough data for a proving result. Maybe the researchers only include several small libraries in Waymarsh in their study, therefore leading to an unrepresentative result. Considering these possibilities, evidence is needed to prove the validity of this experiment.
Secondly, even if the results of the 2nd experiment is true, the writer cannot presume the book type most frequently checked out is the one people most prefer and therefore concludes the 1st study is wrong. There can be other reasons for this fact issue. For example, maybe people prefer staying in libraries to enjoy the literary classics, therefore, leading to lower frequency of checking-out. Maybe some literary classics are not allowed for borrowing out. Also it is possible that only a small part of people prefers borrowing books to home for reading and coincidentally most of them prefer mysterious novels, regarding of most people who do not prefer borrow books and prefer literary classics. In this light, the writer needs to prove further evidence to prove whether the check-out frequency can fully reflect the preference to books of the respondents.
Finally, assuming the writer is right that the people prefer mysterious novel more instead of literary classics, and the 1st study is wrong, he still cannot conclude that the mistake is solely out of the misrepresenting of the respondents in the 1st study. Maybe the 1st study was designed of bias therefore misleading the respondents to a wrong answer; maybe the statistics data was calculated and dealt with in a wrong way; maybe sample size of the 1st time was not large enough and only the amateurs of literary classics were selected. Therefore, we need more proof to exclude these interferences to prove the writer’s assumption of misrepresenting issue.
In sum, the writer makes some assumptions in his argument: he assumes the 2nd study is valid and convincing, the check-out frequency equals the preference for the books, and the wrong of 1st study result could only come from the misrepresentation of the respondents. These assumptions require evidence to prove. Otherwise, this argument will remain untenable.
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