In this argument, the arguer recommends that the Piece University offer employment to the spouse of each new faculty member it hire. As a result, it would be beneficial to attract the most gifted teachers and researches to the Pierce University as well as improve the morale of the entire staff. To support the conclusion, the arguer points out that some studies conducted by Bronston College, which is also located in a small town as with Pierce University show that the staffs are happier living in small towns when their spouses are also employed in the same region. In addition, the arguer reasons that the investigation would still be effective to attract new professors although it is not guaranteed that all the offers would be accepted or to regarded as an ideal one. Carefully examine the argument would reveal that the conclusion is based on several fallacies of analogy.
In the first place, the arguer fails to provide adequate evidence to make the comparison between Bronston College and Pierce University completed and trustworthy. The only similarity offered by the arguer is both of them are located in small towns. However, there are many other possible reasons for why both of the couple working in the same geographic area in Bronston College would leads to better performance and happier status of the staffs. As we know, there are many major factors other than just working in the same region would make staffs happier. For instance, the nice living environment and beautiful scenery, the great amount of benefits and even the college itself is attractive for the professors and researches. However, the arguer does not take all these factors into consideration and hastily conclude that offering a job for the spouses of the new professors would make them happier and more willing to come. What's more, the arguer himself also mentioned in the end of the argument that the offers are not guaranteed ideal and satisfactory. Therefore it is very likely that the offers would not be appreciated by the talent professors and researchers. Actually, the conclusion that investing in offering employment to the spouses of each new faculty member as the only way to increase the attractiveness in the competition of getting more gifted professors and researches is probably turn out to be ineffective and misleading.
Secondly, even if the offering of jobs to the spouses of the new staffs would be effective as the arguer cites, which is, an unwarranted assumption, the arguer still has made a critical fallacy of hasty causality. In the argument, the arguer simply claims that offering employment to the spouses of the new staffs would improve the morale of the entire staff. Taking into account of common sense, we would find this illation incredible. Unless we are informed that the spouses of the old staffs have already benefited in the offering, or they do not have such problems or they totally don't care about whether both of the couple are working in the same geographic area or not, it is very likely that the new investigation only towards the new staffs would cause a sense of unfair and dissatisfactory in the old members of the Pierce University. Furthermore, it might cause several new contradictories and problems among the staffs, which, would definitely damage the harmonious hence decrease the evaluation of the procedure. Unless the arguer also takes this case into account, the illation would be unconvincing.
To sum up, the argument lacks credibility because the arguer fails to support enough evidence to justify the comparison between the Bronston College and Pierce University is completed and reasonable as well as the conclusion that the morale of the entire staff would be improved is based on a rigorous illation. To strengthen the conclusion, the arguer would have to provide more evidence concerning that the major factors for attracting professors and researches in Bronston College and Pierce University are similar in every aspect. To better evaluate the conclusion, we would need more information regarding the situation of the spouses of the old staffs of the Pierce University along with the attitude towards such new kind of benefit, that is, whether the new policy would cause some other contradiction or problems.
