“Recently, butter has been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States. This change, however, has had little impact on our customers.
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March 4, 2022 at 2:15 pm
“Recently, butter has been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States. This change, however, has had little impact on our customers. In fact, only about 2 percent of customers have complained, indicating that an average of 98 people out of 100 are happy with the change. Furthermore, many servers have reported that a number of customers who ask for butter do not complain when they are given margarine instead. Clearly, either these customers do not distinguish butter from margarine or they use the term ‘butter’ to refer to either butter or margarine.”
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
To begin with, the business manager claims that only 2 percent of customers have complained and further predicts that an average of 98 people out of 100 are happy with the change. While I admit that this might be the case, I also argue that the further prediction is not convincing because most of the customers, who participated in survey, may accept the substitution and customers who prefer butter to margarine do not take the survey. Moreover, the amount of the customers who participated in the survey is not open to the public. Absence of significant information contributes to the failure to rule out the possibility that the survey results are not objective. All of the aforementioned explanations pose a great challenge upon, if not utterly reverse, the proposed conclusion by the business manager in the argument.
In addition, the author ascribes the conclusion to many servers who have reported that a number of customers who ask for butter do not complain when they are given margarine instead. However, the reports do not sufficiently indicate that the most of customers do not tell the difference between butter and margarine. The customers who do not complain the substitution may did not choose to use butter or margarine at all, so they do not care about it. It could also be explained by the relatively small number of customers who are reported by the servers. Undoubtedly, the subjectivity of the reports is another factor we need to notice and pay attention to.
Even if the customer survey mentioned before is objective, it is doubtful that it is convincing to draw the conclusion that the change has had little impact and there is no difference between butter and margarine. Generally speaking, there may be other explanations which are more compelling. For instance, we can gather a group of people randomly and ask them to eat butter and margarine respectively, without telling them the difference. After eating, we ask them some relative questions and collect the feedback of them to see whether there is some distinctions between butter and margarine. If the participator can not tell the difference, it will be a good explanation to demonstrate that customers do not distinguish butter from margarine. While we cannot assert this explanation is perfect to draw the conclusion, we are confident that this kind of explanation could rival the one proposed in the argument.
To summarize, although it is reasonable to believe that the scarcity of grumble contributes to little impact of change for customers, there are several alternative explanations that could challenge the author’s one and can also plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument. However, it is unreasonable to draw hasty conclusions about which explanation is best until further examination performed.
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To begin with, the business manager claims that only about 2 percent of customers have complained and further predicts that an average of 98 people out of 100 are happy with the change. While I admit that this might be the case, I also argue that the further prediction is not convincing because most of the customers who accept the substitution are more likely to take the survey. On the contrary, customers who prefer butter to margarine may neither choose to go to these restaurants, nor take the survey. Moreover, we need the explanation whether the amounts of customers who participated this survey is enough to ensure the objectivity of this reasoning. Absence of significant information contributes to the failure to rule out the possibility that the survey results are not objective. All of the aforementioned explanations pose a challenge upon, if not utterly reverse, the proposed conclusion by the business manager in the argument.
In addition, the author ascribes the conclusion to many servers who have reported customers who ask for butter do not complain when they get margarine instead. However, the reports do not sufficiently indicate that customers do not tell the difference between butter and margarine. The customers who do not complain this substitution may do not choose to use butter or margarine at all, so they do not care about it. It could also be explained by the relatively small number of customers reported by the servers. Undoubtedly, the subjectivity of the reports is another factor we need to notice and pay attention to.
Even if the customer survey mentioned before is objective, to say customers do not distinguish butter from margarine is also not convincing. More specifically, there may be other factors that enable customers to accept this substitution. For instance, we need to ascertain whether the price of butter is same as the price of margarine. If using margarine is cheaper than using butter, which means that the prices of dishes in these restaurants are lower than before, customers may accept the substitution, but it does not indicate that customers do not distinguish butter from margarine. Also, we need to know whether other flavor enhancers, which can vanish the taste of butter or margarine, have been added into dishes. If it turns out that the taste of butter or margarine is covered in these dishes, then we are unconvinced of the conclusion. While we cannot assert that answering these explanations are perfect to draw the conclusion, we are confident that this kind of explanation could rival the one proposed in the argument.
To summarize, although the explanations of the restaurants are reasonable to some extent, there are much more explanations needed to replenish. However, it is unreasonable to draw hasty conclusions about which explanation is best before further examinations.
March 9, 2022 at 4:20 pmTo begin with, the business manager claims that only about 2 percent of customers
havecomplained [incomplete sentence ] and further predicts that an average of 98 people out of 100are[ will be ] happy with the change. WhileI admit thatthis[unclear pronoun/ split the last sentence and then readers know ‘this’ refers to the 2nd part. ] might be the case, Ialsoargue that the further prediction is not convincing because most of the customers who accept [grammatical error ] the substitution are [ grammatical error ] more likely to (take)[unclear verb ] the survey. On the contrary, customers who prefer [grammatical error ] butter to margarine may neither choose to go to these restaurants, nor take the survey. Moreover, we need the explanation whether the amounts of customers who participated this survey is enough to ensure the objectivity of this reasoning. Absence of significant information contributes to the failure to rule out the possibility that the survey results are not objective. All of the aforementioned explanations pose a challenge upon, if not utterly reverse, the proposed conclusion by the business manager in the argument.In addition, the author ascribes the conclusion to many servers who have reported customers who ask for butter do not complain when they get margarine instead. However, the reports do not sufficiently indicate that customers do not tell the difference between butter and margarine. The customers who do not complain this substitution may do not choose to use butter or margarine at all, so they do not care about it. It could also be explained by the relatively small number of customers reported by the servers. Undoubtedly, the subjectivity of the reports is another factor we need to notice and pay attention to.
Even if the customer survey mentioned before is objective, to say customers do not distinguish butter from margarine is also not convincing. More specifically, there may be other factors that enable customers to accept this substitution. For instance, we need to ascertain whether the price of butter is same as the price of margarine. If using margarine is cheaper than using butter, which means that the prices of dishes in these restaurants are lower than before, customers may accept the substitution, but it does not indicate that customers do not distinguish butter from margarine. Also, we need to know whether other flavor enhancers, which can vanish the taste of butter or margarine, have been added into dishes. If it turns out that the taste of butter or margarine is covered in these dishes, then we are unconvinced of the conclusion. While we cannot assert that answering these explanations are perfect to draw the conclusion, we are confident that this kind of explanation could rival the one proposed in the argument.
To summarize, although the explanations of the restaurants are reasonable to some extent, there are much more explanations needed to replenish. However, it is unreasonable to draw hasty conclusions about which explanation is best before further examinations.
March 9, 2022 at 4:26 pmPartial revision [Fix your essay and make sure the tense (past, present, and future) is properly used for each sentence.
