A state traffic survey shows that drivers’ commute times today is double what they were three years ago. Hence, traffic problems in Waymarsh are obviously reaching record levels seems at first glance to be an apparent conclusion. However, the nearby city of Garville implemented a policy that rewards carpooling, and since then pollution levels have dropped and people from Garville have reported lower commuting times. By citing these facts, the author believes that Garville’s carpooling reward policy should work well for reducing traffic and pollution in Waymarsh. Closing scrutiny of each of these facts, however, reals that it leads little credible support to their recommendations, as discussed below.

The premise upon which this whole fallacious argument rests is the claim that commute times have risen in Waymarsh specifically. However, the only evidence the author submits regarding past commute times in Waymarsh is a state traffic survey. However, it doesn’t necessarily indicate that this three-year-old survey actually contains an evaluation of Waymarsh, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that the survey actually contains an evaluation of the state in general to a large extent. And …show more content…
This piece of abstract figures in itself is far from sufficient to demonstrate the truth that these are more detailed cases to explore making we are left in the above board about how specific circumstance really was. Perhaps the old survey only analyzed a central section of Waymarsh, whereas the most recent survey strove to cover all of the land within the town’s borders. Incidentally, this raises the question of whether or not Waymarsh itself may have expanded in the three years since the initial survey; if it did, rising commuting times could reflect longer commuting distances rather than heavier