Critical Thinking Homework #6

CRITICAL THINKING HOMEWORK #6

Due November 27

Find two different recent news articles that discuss a survey or a statistic. For each article, construct a survey argument, using the Standard Pattern for Survey Arguments (Expanded Version), from page 244 of the textbook.

Do not summarize the articles, but you must provide copies of them, or links to them so that I can look them up. The argument that you reconstruct is implicit in the article; do not expect to find any arguments stated as such. You will need to study chapter 9 up to page 247 in order to do this assignment. Make sure you include background information before giving the argument, providing the information described on page 244 (description of sample). Choose an article where at least some description of the sample is given.

Do not to evaluate the survey arguments for this exercise.

To get you started, here are a couple of links to websites with articles that contain surveys and statistics:

Health news: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032076/

Political polls: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/