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Salesperson: Conclusion When a salesperson is successful, it is certain that that person has been in sales for at least three years. ████ ██ ███████ ██ ███████ ██ █ ████████████ ███ ████ █████ █████████ █ ██████ ██████ █████ ███ ███████ ████ █████ ████ ██████ ███ ██████ ██ █████ █████ █████ ██████████ █ ██████ ████ ███ ██████████ ████ █ ███████████ ██████ ██ ██████
Summarize Argument
The author concludes that if a salesperson is successful, then that person has been in sales for at least three years. He supports this with two conditional premises:
(1) To be successful as a salesperson, it’s necessary that one establishes a strong client base.
(2) If one spends at least three years establishing a client base, then one can make a comfortable living in sales.
Identify and Describe Flaw
The author says that to be successful in sales, you need to establish a strong client base. But he doesn’t prove that to establish that client base, you need to spend at least three years in sales. So his conclusion that any successful salesperson has spent at least three years in sales isn’t supported by his premises. In other words, he fails to consider that some salespeople might establish their client base in less than three years and still be successful.
Analysis by EleanorRoberts
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