The mere fact that ticket sales in recent years for screenplay-based movies have exceeded those for book-based movies is insufficient evidence to conclude that writing screenplays now provides greater financial opportunity for writers.

　　Consequently, the mere fact that Company A holds a large share of the video-game hardware and software market does not support the claim that Company A will also fail.

　　If so,even through 3 percent more accidents occurred after the change, the author’s argument that changing the speed limit increases danger for drivers would be seriously weakened.

　　　Without such evidence, we cannot accept the author’s conclusion that no government funds should be directed toward maintaining the Styx River bridge.

　　　The statistics offered in the announcement warrants only the conclusion that the decline of The Mercury’s circulation and the alleged competitor,the lower-priced newspaper The Bugle, coexisted in the past five years.

　　Therefore,any decision aimed at addressing the problem of falling circulation must be based on more thorough investigation to gather sufficient data in order to narrow down and locate the actual cause(s) of the problem.

　　From the survey quoted in the argument,however,we find no sign of such procedures for random sampling,and have good reason to doubt if the sample is representative enough to reflect the general attitudes of all workers as a whole