The following claim is made in an argumentative essay:

The United States should require all citizens to be listed as organ donors.

Which of the following would be considered ineffective evidence to support this claim?

Question

The following claim is made in an argumentative essay:

The United States should require all citizens to be listed as organ donors.

Which of the following would be considered ineffective evidence to support this claim?

yatonoragami · Answer

Examples of situations when organ donations have saved lives
 Facts from a documentary about mechanical and artificial hearts
 Statistics showing the number of lives saved by organ donors each year
 Testimony from the emergency room doctors and patients who have been saved

southernbelle00 · Answer

I would say the first one because it doesn't have a reliable source or really any source at all.  It just says examples, and that would be completely ineffective without proper source citing.

courtney_celiene1236 · Answer

I would say it would be the second one, because it is the only option that does not explicitly support the claim. Rather, it simply would state facts comparing and contrasting the two.