Put the argument into standard form for inductive generalizations (sampling argu

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Put the argument into standard form for inductive generalizations (sampling arguments) and evaluate the strength.

At the University of Pennsylvania, psychiatrists conducted a study to determine the social factors that affect the well-being of coronary patients. There were ninety-three patients in the study; slightly more than 50 percent of them had pets of some kind (dogs, cats, fish, and one iguana). At the end of a year, one-third of the patients who did not own pets had died, but only three animal owners had succumbed. The psychiatrists concluded that pet ownership may have a positive effect on the health of humans

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For coronary patients stress is the biggest challanges and one may get rid of stress by some activity which gives some kind of pleasure to the mind thus avoiding the stress. So patients with the pets are busy with them and another thing is that those patients feel relaxed by thinking that some one is there with whom they can spend time. Pet ownership have a positive effect on the health of humans for the above mentioned reasons only.

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