3. 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 following argument claims that the reason why the stores in Central Plaza have been experiencing decrease of the shoppers is due to the number of skateboarders in the plaza. However, the argument is not logically completely convincing since the assumptions are not reliable and sound.
The author assumed that there are correlations between the number of shopper decreases and the number of skateboarder increases. First of all, the stereotype that the skateboarders are vandals or have no public etiquette cannot strengthen the argument without concrete evidence. Although it might be true if ...
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