Self-study
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Summary
The author concludes that most people who watched the first night of a show also watched the second night. As evidence, the author cites that the number of viewers on the second night was not significantly smaller.
Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that most people who watched the second night had also watched the first. It could be that nobody who watched on the first night also watched on the second night, and that it was a completely new group of viewers.
The author also assumes that most people tuned in again the next night because of how much they liked the program. There might be other reasons. Maybe they really disliked it, and watched the second night to give it another chance.
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Without knowing that it’s mostly the same audience, we cannot conclude that most people from the first night chose to tune in again. It could be entirely new people, in which case the number of viewers might be about the same, even without anyone from the first night.
b
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It doesn’t matter how many viewers ended up liking the second night — the argument deals with how many chose to watch the second night because they liked the first night.
c
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The author doesn’t make any comparison between the relative enjoyment of the first and second night. And, viewers could have liked the second night more, but still liked the first night enough to tune in again. The argument would still be valid.
d
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The argument is about how many viewers from the first night tuned back in for the second night, not what happened to the viewers who didn’t. It doesn’t matter why they didn’t watch the second night.
e
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The argument doesn’t talk about why people originally chose to watch the show. It only matters whether those people who watched on the first night enjoyed the program enough to tune back in for the second night.