Self-study
A study found that Support when rating the educational value of specific children's television shows parents tend to base their judgments primarily on how much they themselves enjoyed the shows, and rarely took into account the views of educational psychologists as to the shows' educational value. ████████████ ██ ███ ██████████████ █████ ███ ██████ ███████ ████ ██████ ██████ ██ █████ █████ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ███████████ █████ ██ ██████████ ██████████ ██████
Summarize Argument
The author concludes that parents should not trust their own abilities to rate the educational value of children’s shows if educational psychologists rate them accurately. This is because, in a relevant study, parents largely ignored the views of such psychologists when rating the shows.
Identify and Describe Flaw
The problem with this argument is that it assumes that the parents’ ratings differ from those of the psychologists. If the parents’ ratings of the value of children’s shows are similar to the psychologists’, then the psychologists’ views being sound actually gives parents a reason to trust their own judgment.
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Both the study and the conclusion are focused on parents, so there’s no reason to believe that the sample in the study is unrepresentative.
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This is irrelevant. The conclusion is just that parents shouldn’t trust their own abilities to rate shows if the psychologists rate them accurately, so it doesn’t matter what children enjoy.
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The conclusion is only concerned with parents’ ability to rate the educational value of children’s shows, so reasons why children should or shouldn’t watch a show are irrelevant.
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This describes how the argument fails to establish that the psychologists give different ratings than the parents do. If they rate shows similarly, then psychologists having accurate ratings would mean that parents do too.
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The argument doesn’t assume that psychologists can judge children’s shows’ value accurately, let alone that they’re the only ones who can. The conclusion only claims that if psychologists’ ratings are accurate, then parents shouldn’t trust their own ratings.