The following appeared as a letter to the editor from a Central Plaza store owner.
Over the past two years, the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has been steadily decreasing while the popularity of skateboarding has increased dramatically. Many Central Plaza store owners believe that the decrease in their business is due to the number of skateboard users in the plaza. There has also been a dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza. Thus, we recommend that the city prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza. If skateboarding is prohibited here, we predict that business in Central Plaza will return to its previously high levels.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
In this letter, the speaker indicates that with the emerging popularity of skateboarding, the shoppers have decreased accordingly. Besides, more litter and vandalism throughout the plaza have come into attention. The speaker further concludes that if they ban skateboarding, the business will surely recoil and their revenue will be restored to previously levels. At first glance, this argument seems to be valid, however, upon close inspection, there are still several questions need to be answer before evaluate this argument.
The first important question needs to be addressed is what is the re...
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