The following appeared as a recommendation by a committee planning a ten-year budget for the city of Calatrava.
"The birthrate in our city is declining: in fact, last year's birthrate was only one-half that of five years ago. Thus the number of students enrolled in our public schools will soon decrease dramatically, and we can safely reduce the funds budgeted for education during the next decade. At the same time, we can reduce funding for athletic playing fields and other recreational facilities. As a result, we will have sufficient money to fund city facilities and programs used primarily by adults, since we can expect the adult population of the city to increase."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The birth rate is one of criterion that effects the budget in the education of a city, but it is not the categorical aspects, paricularly it is not accurate for the prediction of popultion in the future. The recommodation solely reply on the birthrate which conducted in last year and some unproven assumptions and so is questionable.
First, the number of students enrolled in the public schools is not only based on the local residents, but it also relevant to the immigrants of the city, partiuclarly those who move with their families for the purpose of better education or other reasons. So the author need to estimate, with specific data supported,how many immigrants might come to the city in next decades. If there were much more number of immigrant studnets than author's expectaion, the budget would be far less than the planned and the other terms in the recommodation would subsequently inaccurate.
Second, the playing field and recreational facilities are built, mainly, for the publics, not just for children. To reduce the funding for these items, a complete survey need to conducted in order to know whether there are many people using the facilities. If many citizens were against the cut on the funding of such facilities, the recommondation would be everything but causing massive protests. Furthermore, if there were more students moving from other cities to the local schools, the argument would be
Third, supposing the government manage to cut the budget for the education and sports facilities, there is no evidence showing that the number of adults will be immutable in the future. The author need to ascertain whether the population of aults will be same by doing relevant researches or consulting experts. If many citizens moved to others cities for the purpose of work or other reasons, government would spend more money on a program that would not benefit to the majorities, and left paucity of funding available for education and reinforcing the recreational facilities.
In conclusion, the argument is lacking of convincing evidence and specific data to support. In addition to presenting necessary evidence and informations, the recommondation should reaching the conclusion on the basis of evidence provide, if there is any, other than making assumptions with no details or limited evidences.
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Sentence: The birth rate is one of criterion that effects the budget in the education of a city, but it is not the categorical aspects, paricularly it is not accurate for the prediction of popultion in the future.
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Sentence: In addition to presenting necessary evidence and informations, the recommondation should reaching the conclusion on the basis of evidence provide, if there is any, other than making assumptions with no details or limited evidences.
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