The following appeared as a letter to the editor from a Central Plaza store owner.
"Over the past two years, the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has been steadily decreasing while the popularity of skateboarding has increased dramatically. Many Central Plaza store owners believe that the decrease in their business is due to the number of skateboard users in the plaza. There has also been a dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza. Thus, we recommend that the city prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza. If skateboarding is prohibited here, we predict that business in Central Plaza will return to its previously high levels."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The author has put forward a complaint by a certain store owner from Central Plasa for analysis, who shares the mutual plight of his fellow shop owners: a decline in the number of shopkeepers and hence the sales, attributed to the aggrandization of number of skateboard enthusiasts. The shopkeeper recommends an official ban on skateboarding in Central Plasa and believes that such a restraint would boost business in the Plasa to its prior levels.
It becomes mandatory to investigate if the problem as mentioned by the grievant is in fact mutual or not. The problem could be circumscribed to onl...
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