Employee: My boss says that my presentation to our accounting team should have included more detail about profit projections. ███ ████████ █████████ █████ ██ ██████ ████ ████ ███ █████████ ████ ███ ████ ███████ ███ ███████ ██ ████ ██ ██████████
The author concludes that the presentation to the accounting team was appropriate in leaving out “more detail” about profit projections. This is based on the fact that people’s attention tends to wander when they’re presented with “too much” detail.
The author overlooks the possibility that the presentation should have included more detail, but not so much that it would be “too much.
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The author doesn’t assume that the boss’s assessments are “generally” not accurate. The author takes issue with the boss’s specific claim about a particular presentation.
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The author fails to distinguish between more detail and too much detail. The presentation could have included more detail, even if too much detail is also undesirable.
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The author doesn’t assume that the only reason people’s attention might wander is too much detail. The author merely cites too much detail as one reason people’s attention might wander.
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The conclusion is not a generalization. It’s a claim about a specific presentation.
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The word “detail” does not take on two different meanings in this argument.
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