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The psychologist concludes that doctors should never prescribe sedatives to insomniacs. Why? Because most insomnia cases treated by psychologists are caused by stress, which the psychologist takes as evidence that it needs to be treated with therapy rather than drugs.
There are several problems with this argument. First of all, the given evidence only applies to a subset of insomnia cases—ones treated by psychologists. Even among those cases, only most of them are caused by stress, so the psychologist goes wrong in drawing a conclusion about all insomnia cases.
Further, the psychologist presumes that psychotherapy is necessary to alleviate stress—it’s possible that drugs could also help. The argument fails to consider possible benefits of prescribing drugs and leaps to the conclusion that they should never be prescribed for insomnia patients.
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