Question: Exercise 5.1: All without * (FOLLOW my instructions) For each question, follow the following format: (a) State each argument in the standard format. (b) Identify
Exercise 5.1: All without * (FOLLOW my instructions) For each question, follow the following format: (a) State each argument in the standard format. (b) Identify the target group, sample, and relevant property (c) Strong or weak (d) If the argument is weak, state why (the sample is too small, the sample is not representative, or both) Exercise 5.1 ises of each argument is true, "poo For each of the following enumerative inductions, (1) identify the target you not representative, or both. Assume that the information provided in the pret Sample and relevant property: (2) indicate whether the argument is strong weak and (3) if it's weak, say whether the problem is a sample that's too small *1. Two-thirds of the adults in New York City identify themselves as choice" in the abortion debate. And almost 70 percent of adults in San Francisco do. This makes the situation perfectly clear: A large majority the people in this country are pro-choice. 2. Most people are fed up with celebrities who get on their soapbox and their political opinions. When people on the street have been asked by TV reporters how they feel about this issue, they almost always say that they wish celebrities would keep their opinions to themselves. 3. Doctors used to think that antiarrhythmic drugs were the cure for irrego lar heartbeats. They overprescribed these drugs and fifty thousand pe tients died. Doctors used to believe that the cure for ulcers was a diet, but that turned out to be wrong, too. Every new treatment we see these days sounds great. But history tells us that they will all turn out to be worthless. bland . I've asked at least a dozen first-year students at this university whethe the United States should go to war with "terrorist" countries, and they all have said no. So most of the students at this university are against such a militant policy. 5. A random, nationwide poll of several thousand gun owners shows that 80 percent of them are opposed to gun-control laws. Thus, most adults oppose gun-control laws. 6. In every winter for the past twenty years, Buffalo has received several feet of snow. Therefore, Buffalo is likely to get several feet of snow in the next fifty winters. 7. Most newspaper reports of crimes in Chicago involve alleged perpetra- tors who belong to racial minorities. Therefore, most crimes in Chicago are committed by racial minorities. *8. Eighty-five percent of dentists who suggest that their patients chew gum recommend Brand X gum. Therefore, 85 percent of dentists recommend Brand X gum