Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Nalmed Province's plan is to reduce highway congestion by expanding

How I broke down the argument?
- Plan: Reduce congestion via expanding rail
- Poll: People liked the idea despite knowing there would be "substantial tax" increases - why would people do this?? (Would you be happy to pay more tax??)
- Conclusion: plan is VERY LIKELY to succeed because people are prepared to pay and expect benefit

A) it overlooks the possibility that once the highways are consistently uncongested, some commuters might have no motivation to switch from using their car to using the railsystem.
Plan doesn't need everyone to use the rail - if the highways are uncongested it is good - plan is achieved - we don't care about the last 5% of cars on theroad

B) the favorable responses collected are entirely consistent with every one of those respondents expecting that it would be others who, by using the rail system, would ease highwaycongestion.
This is the answer - the majority of respondents who "overwhelmingly favored it" believe THEY THEMSELVES
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Statistics : Posted by nosaj • on 01 Jul 2016, 09:33 • Replies 24 • Views 36330

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