Self-study
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Summarize Argument: Counter-Position
The author concludes that the government’s proposal to publish reports of airline statistics will actually make the public less informed about airline safety because the reports will likely be incomplete.
Identify and Describe Flaw
This argument is flawed because it fails to consider the fact that reports can still inform the public about airline safety even if they’re incomplete. While it’s fair to assume that an incomplete report would be less informative than a complete one, it’s likely better than nothing. Even if the reports are missing some information, there’s no reason to believe that they’d make the public less informed than if this kind of information weren’t made public at all.
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This describes how the argument fails to consider that a report can still help inform the public even if it’s missing some information.
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The argument never assumes anything about people’s rights. It only claims that this policy will undermine the goal of informing the public.
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The argument doesn’t assume that government disclosures are necessary to finding this information. In fact, the author claims that the government’s actions are counterproductive in this case.
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The argument makes no claim about who should be responsible for reporting this information. It only claims that this policy is counterproductive to the goal of informing the public.
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This is irrelevant. The argument is only concerned with whether or not this policy is effective at informing the public. It doesn’t matter what effect it has on airlines’ revenues.