(71) It is entirely possible that people inclined to recycle were more willing to responded to the survey than other people were.
(72) Without eliminating this possibility , the owner cannot rely on the national survey to conclude that …
(73) Given these possible scenarios. The fact that … proves nothing about …
(74) By relying on the national survey to support its conclusion the argument depends on the assumption’s conclusion that …
(75) This scenario is quite possible, especially considering that …
(76) Any of these scenarios, if true, would cast considerable doubt on the argument’s conclusion that …
(77) The nationwide study showing … does not necessarily apply to …
(78) Without weighing revenue against expenses the argument’s conclusion is premature at best.
(79) Even assuming …, it is nevertheless impossible to assess the author’s broader contention that …
(80) Absent either a cleat definition of the term or dear evidence that …, the author’s contention that … is simply unjustified.
(81) In order to establish a strong correlation between …, the study’s sample must be sufficient in size and representative of …
(82) Lacking evidence of a sufficiently representative sample, the author cannot justifiably rely on the study to draw any conclusion whatsoever.
(83) A direct correlation between … does not necessarily prove that the former causes the latter.
(84) While a high correlation is strong evidence of causal relationship, in itself it is not sufficient.
(85) The author must consider and eliminate this and other possible reasons why … otherwise, I cannot accept the author’s implicit claim that …
(86) This single sample is insufficient to draw any general conclusion about …
(87) Without additional samples from divers geographic locations, I cannot accept the author’s sweeping generalization about …
(88) On the one hand, the author ignores the possibility that …; on the other hand, perhaps …
(89) In short, lacking evidence that conditions on the two islands are relevantly similar, the author cannot convince me on the basis of Batia’s experience that …
(90) Absent additional information about the cited studies, these studies lend no credible support to the conclusion that …
(91) Although this is entirely possible, the argument provides no evidence to support this assumption.
(92) Common sense and experience tells us this is not the case, and that a variety of other factors, such as …, also play major roles.
(93) Without such evidence the argument can be rejected out of hand.
(94) If this is the case, it provides an alternative explanation for the fact that …
(95) The argument fails to indicate what portion of the people surveyed actually responded; the smaller this portion, the less reliable the results.
