\"Identifying Misleading Information in an Argument\" Please respond to the foll
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"Identifying Misleading Information in an Argument" Please respond to the following: Consider the following argument: https://www.forbes.com/2006/08/21/careers-marriage-dating_cx_mn_0821women.html Determine whether or not the argument uses any deceptive statistics. Give your opinion on whether or not the argument has persuaded you. Explain why or why not. Determine the primary ways in which statistics or authority are used in your current position in developing persuasive arguments, and provide examples of such use. And don't forget to respond to at least two others!
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Determine whether or not the argument uses any deceptive statistics. Give your opinion on whether or not the argument has persuaded you. Explain why or why not.
The article has clearly been written by a person who has a highly se-xist approach. The argument is completely biased and shows confirmation bias, where the author just wants to add reasons that support his conclusions. None of the statistics seem authentic. They are all deceptive. There has been a part where he has randomly quoted 77% without explaining how it correlates with the topic. Also, he has randomly quoted figures of what the lady should be earning and how many hours she should be working, which do not show any significant data correlation, rather his belief bias. The author has picked up lines from various researchers without quoting them completely and is trying to make it make sense with his idea for example : “The work environment provides a host of potential partners,” researcher Adrian J. Blow reported in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, “and individuals frequently find themselves spending a great deal of time with these individuals.” The author has quoted this in order to assert that women who go to work, most necessarily cheat, but the researcher mentions individuals and nowhere in particular women. The same can be true both ways, men can cheat as well, but the author completely discards the possibility of the statement going either ways. Another such example of binding shown by the author can be seen in the following statement made by him "Women’s work hours consistently increase divorce, whereas increases in men’s work hours often have no statistical effect".
Effectively, this is a completely biased piece of writing where the author WANTS to assert that working women cheat or derogate men or these women HAVE to be unhappy, without portraying any facts or figures concrete to his beliefs.
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