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今天才是真正的跪了好吗~上午看了作文,总结了一下自己每一段应该怎么写,怎么发展。
写了一篇文章……搞了40分钟。贴在这里求拍砖!就是这个月寂静的26题。
The following appeared in a memorandum to a team developing accounting software for SmartPro Software, Inc.:
―Currently, more professional accountants use SmartPro accounting software than any other brand. However, in the market for personal accounting software for non-professionals to use in preparing their income tax returns, many of our competitors are outselling us. In surveys, our professional customers repeatedly say that they have chosen
SmartPro Software because our most sophisticated software products include more advanced special features than competing brands. Therefore, the most effective way for us to increase sales of our personal accounting software for home users would clearly be to add the advanced special features that our professional software products currently offer.‖
In the argument, the author cited a survey to support that professional users preferred their advanced feature and that was why they choose this company rather than others. But the non-professional users choose the competing companies products more often than SmartPro Software. Then the author reaches the conclusion that the most effective way for them to increase sales of their software for non-professional users is to add the advanced features which were more attractive for professional users. Actually, the reasoning is biased due to the inadequacy and partiality in the natal evidence provided to justify the conclusion.
Firstly, the survey gave us some information about the preference of accountants and reasons why they chose the SmartPro Software were that they were attracted by the advanced special features which were not provided by other competing companies. But does the survey conduct professional? Is there any possible flaw? Because a sounded result of a survey lay the foundation on the people who conducted, the responders and the way how the survey conducted. If there are some careless faults in the process, the result of survey can not be convinced.
Even assuming that the result of the survey mentioned above is statistically reliable,the argument has also committed a false analogy fallacy.The argument rests on the assumption that nonprofessional users is analogous to professional ones in all respects and failing to take into account that possible differences between these two. In fact, it is highly doubtful that the facts drawn from professional users preference are applicable to their counterparts. They may focus on different factors when they chose a software to do some accounting such as friendly interfere. Non-professional customers may not want that much advanced special features because they may do many fundamental data analysis and easy work. They do not even have a chance to work with advanced special features. Therefore, the product may attract the more advanced people rather than home users.
Even if the analogy is acceptable, the author unfairly assumed that if they provide better product with advanced special features, the sales will increase. However, their is no sufficient evidence to substantiate the assumption that there is a directly cause-and-effect relationship between the 2 factors and it's unfairly to assume that the sales determined solely by the preference of non-professional accountants. Even they are interested in the software, they may not buy it in view of price or some other factors. Therefor, this argument is unwarranted without ruling out such possibility.
To conclude, this argument is not persuasive as it stands.Because the evidence cited in the analysis is too weak to lend strong support to what the author claims. To make this argument logically acceptable, the author would have to consider and eliminate all the above conspicuous flaws that I analyzed. Maybe the author could give more information to support that the professional users and their counterparts concentrated on the same point-whether the feature is advanced special or not. Or, the assumption that other possibility has no influence on the sales can make it more convincing.
今天是用考GMAT的CAT模考的。分数大家看到了,640.好可怕。
做数学的时候就觉得题目很难,至少比平时做GWD的难,虽然也都是从GWD的题目里面跳出来的。然后当时还觉得自己很赞,肯定满分了。
结果就……悲剧了……不过做题的时候确实不怎么顺畅!
语文就更不必说了,第一次遇到这么多逻辑题,做到头大~语法第一次错7个。
好难过~唉。不过我的预感告诉我我会一次过700的!嘻嘻~~希望能有个好运气!
晚上看一下错题,然后继续看寂静。先把数学留下来的接近一百道做一下,看一下讨论稿。
然后整理阅读机经和AWA模板。我懒了,打算就直接用别人贴的模板,顶多换几个词语吧~保证速度就行。
哦对了,今天IR第一次模考满分!刚好全对了8个~哈哈太幸运了。因为做的时候完全去没考虑过正确率,看到不想做的直接乱选……结果居然做的还都对了。
唉,最后几天发现复习疲了。效率没有之前那么高。特别是今天居然八点半起床。不开心~
好了,乖乖看题去了。拜!
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