"From a letter to the editor of a city newspaper: "One recent research study has indicated that many adolescents need more sleep than they are getting, and another study has shown that many high school students in our city are actually dissatisfied with their own academic performance. As a way of combating these problems, the high schools in our city should begin classes at 8:30 A.M. instead of 7:30 A.M., and end the school day an hour later. This arrangement will give students an extra hour of sleep in the morning, thereby making them more alert and more productive. Consequently, the students will perform better on tests and other assignments, and their academic skills will improve significantly."" -
Discuss how well reasoned you find the above argument.
The argument states that high school students have a specific requirement of sleep duration that's similar to that of adolescents, and that not meeting this requirement is the reason behind the drop in their academic performance - therefore their performance can be improved by ensuring an extra hour of sleep in the morning for them. There are quite a few errors in the logic of the author, in addition to a number of faulty assumptions he makes.
Firstly, the author begins by stating the unmet sleep requirements of adolescents, and he correlates this requirement to that of high school stud...
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Sentence: This may or may not be true, but its a definite possibility, and the author should have ascertained this fact before condemning the current time-frame of the schools.
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