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Re: Q21 - Safety consultant: Judged by the

by mswang7 Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:39 pm

Premises: Minivans have least injuries/vehicle than any other vehicle
Minivans do not perform better in crash tests than similar size vehicles
Concl: Minivans aren't actually safer, the least injury rates are prob bc primarily driven by low risk drivers
Prephrase/ gaps : how the 1st premise compares upon any other vehicles but the second only discusses similar size vehicles, something about minivans holding less passengers on average (even though this is counterintuitive)
There is a leap from least injuries/vehicle to "good safety record"

A. If this were true it low risk drivers would not pick the minivan since it performed worse on crash tests (Weakens)
B. This is taking away the # of passengers and looking holistically at the # of accidents but since they are no safer this weakens our conclusion
C. Another weakener, if the mini carries more, yet the injuries/vehicle are still lower than others, it would mean that it is especially safer which in contrary to our conclusion
D. We are only discussing vehicles of similar size, see second premise
E. Gives another reason that minivans aren't safer than other similar size vehicles