Due December 6. Late deadline December 13.
Reading: Chapter 12 "What Significant Information is Omitted?" in Asking the Right Questions.
In this assignment you will answer study questions. Enter your answers in the answer box in Etudes or save your answers in a Word document and upload.
1. (2 points) Why is it important to think about omitted information?
2. (3 points) Even if the author or speaker is not trying to be deceptive and to provide complete information, what are three reasons that the reasoning may still be incomplete?
3. (6 points) Look at the list in the textbook "Clues for Finding Common Kinds of Significant Information." Think about your own life and describe an example of how you have used questions like this to make a better decision.
Click the link to read "Don't blame drunkenness on the beer vendor."
4. What does Mitch Albom think is the only way to stop people from leaving the stadium drunk?
5. (4 points) What are the reasons?
6. (14 points, 2 points each) Evaluate the editorial by asking questions a through g (from page 174 in the textbook). Explain your answer. It will help to search the web for more information about the subject.
a. Which segments of society do not benefit from a proposed action? Who loses? What do the losers have to say about it?
b. How does the proposed action affect the distribution of power?
c. Does the action influence the extent of democracy in our society?
d. How does a particular action affect how we view the world: What we think, how we think, and what we know and can know?
e. What are the action's effects on our health?
f. How does the action influence our relationships with one another? With the natural environment?
g. Will the action have a slow, cumulative impact?
7. (10 points) Pretend that you are writing an editorial for publication in the Daily Breeze about drunkenness and sporting events. Write a "Letter to the Editor" in answer to this editorial. It should be an argument of a paragraph or two (more than a few sentences).