Self-study
Physician: There were approximately 83,400 trampoline-related injuries last year. ████ ████████ ████ ███████████ ███ █████ █████████ ███ ██████ █████████ ██ ████ ████ █████ ████████████ ████████████
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Speaker 1 Summary
The physician concludes that trampolines should be used only under professional supervision. This is because there were many trampoline-related injuries last year, which indicates that trampolines are dangerous.
Speaker 2 Summary
The trampoline enthusiast concludes that professional supervision should not be required for trampoline use. This is because sales of home trampolines have increased a much faster pace than trampoline injuries have increased, and because trampolines would still pose a risk, even if used under professional supervision.
Objective
We’re looking for a point of disagreement. The speakers disagree about whether trampoline use should require professional supervision. The physician thinks it should. The enthusiast thinks it shouldn’t. (That’s what the enthusiast means by “I disagree.”)
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The dialogue provides the most ███████ ███ ███ █████ ████ ███ █████████ ███ ███ ██████████ ██████████ ████████ ████ ███████
a
trampolines cause injuries ██ █ ███████████ ██████ ██ ██████ █████ ████
Not a point of disagreement. The enthusiast could agree that trampolines cause injuries to a lot of people. But the enthusiasts’ point is that professional supervision still should be required despite the existence of trampoline injuries.
b
home trampolines are ███ ████ ██████ ██ ██████████████████ ████████
Neither expresses an opinion. The physician doesn’t distinguish between home trampolines and non-home trampolines. The enthusiast doesn’t compare home trampolines to non-home trampolines.
c
the rate of ██████████████████ █████████ ██ █████ ██ ███ ██████ ██ ████████ ███ ██████████ █████ ██ █████████
The physician doesn’t express an opinion. The physician doesn’t comment on trampoline injuries per user or whether that number has changed.
d
professional supervision of ██████████ ███ █████ ██ ██████ ███ ██████ ██ ██████████████████ ████████
Not a point of disagreement. The enthusiast doesn’t suggest that professional supervision wouldn’t reduce the number of trampoline injuries. He just believes that we shouldn’t require professional supervision, because there will always be risk from trampolines.
e
trampoline use is ██ ████████ ████ ████████ █████████ ████████████ ███████████
The speakers disagree. The physician thinks supervision should be required. The enthusiast doesn’t think so. We know this since the enthusiast suggests that trampolines are not as dangerous as the physician thinks, and points out that there will always be risk from trampolines.