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Two years ago, radio station WCQP in Rockville decided to increase the number of call-in advice programs that it broadcast; since that time, its share of the radio audience in the Rockville listening area has increased significantly. Given WCQP's recent success with call-in advice programming, and citing a nationwide survey indicating that many radio listeners are quite interested in such programs, the station manager of KICK in Medway recommends that KICK include more call-in advice programs in an attempt to gain a larger audience share in its listening area.

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The passage given here contains some of well-supported and well-presented argument, but not well-reasoned. In the argument, the station manager of KICK in Medway has recommended for inclusion of more call-in advice programs in an attempt to gain a larger audience share in its listening area. This recommendation is inspired by the success of another radio station WCQP in Rockville, which adopted verisimilar regimes for the station and reported inclination in their audience. Manager believes that such programs are appreciated by many radio listeners and hence if they include more call-in advice programs, they will able to allure many audiences towards their radio station. Semblance of the argument is presented in such manner that it seems very reasonable and veracious at first glance, but delve yourself a bit more and we realize that argument is based on very scanty and insufficient information.

Firstly, argument has failed to provide quantified and exact data for the inclination noticed in the WCQP radio station in Rockville. Though, it says that its share of radio audience has significantly increased in listening area, judging anything from such uninformative statement is not sensible enough to make any decision. The WCQP station had started call-in advise programs two years ago, and since then it is possible that population growth in listening area has been increased. Apparently, number of listeners will increase if the area population is increasing. Such insufficient data does not lead to any concrete conclusion.

Secondly, writer has stated that a nationwide survey indicates that listeners are actively showing interest in call-in advise programs. But how many people were interviewed? How many states were surveyed? and what is the ratio of those people who showed interest in such programs to those who did not show any positive response for such shows? Moreover, what are the odds for success and failure if call-in advice programs are included in radio station services? Unfortunately, none of the questions above are answered in the passage presented here, hence it is not viable to rely upon any superficial conclusion.

Scrutinizing the whole paragraph keeping every minor factor in your mind, argument contains some inadequate and sleazy information. It fails to convince readers to accede with its content due to following reasons.
a) Insufficient information about WCQP radio station and ratio of audience with respect to population growth in listening area.
b) Groundless reports and lack of quantified data of the survey made.
c) Supposititious conclusion made upon incomplete and scanty analysis.