Each passage below contains an inductive argument. Determine what kind of argument it is and evaluate its strengths and weaknesses.
- Australia has suffered from several very serious droughts recently. Not too long ago, a series of droughts like this was unheard of. That was before Australia adopted daylight saving time. Now, Australia is on daylight saving time six months out of the year. The Extra hour of sunlight is slowly evaporating all of the moisture in Australia, leading to nearly perpetual drought. The government needs to abolish daylight saving time, since it’s causing such terrible droughts.
- At the University of Prestige, psychiatrists conducted a study to determine the social factors that affect the well-being of coronary patients. There were 93 patients in the study; slightly more than 50 percent of them had bets of some kind (dogs, cats, fish, and one iguana). At the end of the year one-third of the patients who did not own pets had died, but only three animal owners had succumbed. The psychiatrists concluded that pet ownership may have a positive effect on the health of humans.