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Argument 92/101/103

Workers in the small town of Leeville take fewer sick days thanworkers in the large city of Masonton, 50 miles away. Moreover, relative topopulation size, the diagnosis of stress-related illness is proportionally muchlower in Leeville than in Masonton. According to the Leeville Chamber ofCommerce, these facts can be attributed to the health benefits of therelatively relaxed pace of life in Leeville.

Writea response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that couldrival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) canplausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.

In this argument, a conclusion was drawn that the relatively relaxedpace of life contributed to the health of residents in Leevile. To substantiateit, the author claims that workers in the small town of Leevile take fewer sickdays than workers in the large city of Masonton. The author also claims thatthe diagnosis of stress-related illness is lower in Leevile than in Masonton.Although at first glance it might seem persuasive and reasonable, closescrutiny reveals each of piece of assumption in this argument is unreliable.

First of all,the author’s claim is based on the fact that the workers in Leeville take fewersick days than workers in Masonton. The underlying assumption is that thehealth condition is directed related with the numbers of sick days. However, itis possible people take sick days as pretexts to settle their personal affairsinstead of going to see a doctor. Besides, workers in Leevile would not takesick days which may enhance the chance of being laid off, so most people havingdiseases are more likely to go to hospital on weekends rather than in weekdays.Actually the sick days cannot indicate the health index. The author's reasoningis definitely not comprehensive unless the author can demonstrate that theseand other possible scenarios are unlikely

Secondly, thediagnosis of stress-related illness can illustrate nothing about residents’health conditions. Although people in Leevile have less stress than people inMasonton, it cannot necessarily support that people in Leevile are healthier. Healthcondition is not only determined by the stress illness, but also relevant tohealth care system, environment and public exercising facilities. People inMasonton may live in the circumstance where water and air are badly pollutedand cannot get sufficient aids form local government. It is hard to judge whichside of people are healthier, so the author who wants to bolster the consensusamong us cannot reach his aim without considering these and other alternativeexplanations that have to be ruled out.

Finally,although people’s health condition in Leevile is better than that in Masonton,it is not totally because of the relaxed pace of life in Leevile. Many otherreasons may exist that bring about the health benefits in Leevile. It is very likelythat government of Leevile has just reformed its medical system and gaveabundant subsidies to the residents. Besides, in these years, Leevilegovernment has pay more attention on the development of economy and promotedpeople’s anticipating in physical exercise, which is beneficial for health. Sincethe conclusion is convincing only if the assumption on which it is based iswell-considered, it is inevitable to cast doubt on what the author assumes .Toreach the cited conclusion, the author must explain why none of them is able tosustain.

As it stands,the author’s argument mentioned above relies on doubtful evidence or unsoundreasoning. Regardless of whom theauthor is, many aspects of this conclusion have been ignored or underrated. Tobetter evaluate the conclusion, the author should reason more convincingly, andtake every possible consideration into account.

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个人觉得92和101,103之间还是有区别的，只看92题，题目并未提及与Health有关的论述，所以，抓住health的情况去攻击似乎不太妥当。
92题只是提到了请病假人数和压力引起的病症，L比M少，得出的结论是这是因为L的生活轻松平静，觉得还是主要攻击这两个现象是否与结论有关，可能是其他原因造成，并且这两个原因其实不能说明任何问题。