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The following is a recommendation from the personnel director to the president of Acme Publishing Company. "Many other companies have recently stated that having their employees take the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course has greatly improved productivity. One graduate of the course was able to read a 500-page report in only two hours; another graduate rose from an assistant manager to vice president of the company in under a year. Obviously, the faster you can read, the more information you can absorb in a single workday. Moreover, Easy Read would cost Acme only $500 per employee—a small price to pay when you consider the benefits. Included in this fee is a three-week seminar in Spruce City and a lifelong subscription to the Easy Read newsletter. Clearly, Acme would benefit greatly by requiring all of our employees to take the Easy Read course."
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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The personnel director recommends that the Acme Publishing Company are supposed to require all employees to participate in the Easy Read course by reciting the positive commentaries from other companies, the successful precedents and the relative low expense per individual. Although seemingly plausible and prepossessing, the argument is problematic in being grounded on erroneous assumption, which could undermine both the credibility and validity.
Firstly, the speaker builds the demonstration upon the assumption that the remarks from the companies mentioned is representative enough to speculate the average feedbacks of the courses, which certainly deserves further discussion. However, the term "many" is comparatively ambiguous, from which we cannot accurately extrapolate that the universal comments on quality of the course. Instead the proportion of the companies who provide compliment would be preferable. Otherwise merely 30% of the companies participated endorse the quality of the courses could also be interpreted exaggeratedly as "many company". Under this circumstance, the universal comments of the course is virtually negative but being disguised. Therefore, to comprehensively understand the commentaries of the courses, more precise and circumstantial statistic concerning all the participated companies would be conducive.
Another assumption deserves to be further investigated is that the reading speed of an individual is sufficient to justify the beneficial influences of the course. In the recommendation, the speaker adduces an example of the graduate with extraordinary reading speed and concludes that the speed possessed is consistent with the information acquired. However, he neglects that the information obtained from materials is also determined by the extend of comprehension. Despite the commendable reading speed, if the individual cannot apprehend the posit of the materials and extract valuable information, the efficacy of reading is questionable. Thus, judging one's capacity from the speed of reading is relatively slapdash and the advantages of the course remains uncertain. In addition, even if we assure the speed of reading of is an essential indicator, no persuasive evidence elaborates that the achievement is attributable to the courses. If the individual inherently possesses the talent of reading fast, the benefits of the course is inconsiderable. Hence, grounded on the reasoning above, the personnel director should present more exhaustive and substantial evidence concerning the potential influence of the course and the overall reading capacity.
To comprehensively evaluate the necessity of the suggestion, the speaker should reappraise the implication that solely the expense per individual is precise enough to calculate the total potential costs. From the perspective of individual, the time devoted, the energy engaged, the relinquished opportunities should be taken into consideration, apart from the explicit expenses. Considering the interest of the company, a crucial question will violate the reliability: if all the employees are required to attend the course, who is responsible for the undone tasks to maintain the daily management? Besides, even though the expense of an individual is merely 500 dollars, the overall expenses of the company could be enormous to assume. If the company have 1000 employees, the overall expenses should multiple 100, which is 500,000 dollars. Based on the elucidation above, a lot of question concerning the costs have been ignored. To weighing the strength and weakness of the advice, the speaker should repudiate the false assumption and reevaluate.
Conclusively, before executing the suggestion, the speaker should reconsider the underlying assumptions mentioned above, and conduct thorough research regarding the beneficent impacts of the course and the costs to take participation in.
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