Reading 4.1- Body language that speaks to muggers

The argument which is being stated in the article is pedestrians may signal criminals that they are easy targets for mugging by the way they walk. From that argument, the evidence that we can find is a study by two New York psychologists, Betty Grayson and Morris Stein. Grayson is assistant professor of marketing while Stein is professor of psychology. They secretly video-taped people walking in Manhattan’s to see how the pedestrians walk. They tried out on a group of 12 prisoners to watch the video to differentiate on how muggable each person is. Regarding to the result of research, the evidence did support the argument.

Reading 4.3

Reading 4.3 is presented by Iman and Nini. Their presentation is short and simple. This topic is concerned with evidence’s issue on the kidnapping news, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh. Evidence is the information that gives strong reasons for believing an article. Two types of evidence are circumstantial and testimonial. Circumstantial evidence is when some particular case does not have any eye witnessed. The evidence based on findings. Testimonial evidence is when there were any alibis for some particular moment of the case.

Reading 4.4

The presenter for this topic is Ct-Z and Ann. they are doing well with a very clear explanation and they show how good they are when dealing with numbers. Statistic with a plural verb refers to information about any phenomenon. In singular sense, it denotes the art and science of collecting, presenting, analyzing and interpreting. Facts and figures related with statistics. In order to make a statistic, we need to get a true fact and a figure which is the number of the result in research. Fields that use statistics are government, business, research workers and literary field.

Reading 4.5

Now, Group 9, Anis and Sern present the topic of Crooked and Fallacious Thinking. Their presentation quite imbalance because they just finish their own part without helping each other. Crooked can be defined as something that is dishonest and fallacious thinking is wrong information. Crooked and fallacious thinking is also a manipulative tool that gives chances to the speakers or writers to influence or affect the judgement of their listeners or readers.