PT152 · S1 · Q3 Letter to the Editor: The arts section

This says that “In the world, there exists at least one newspaper that doesn’t publish any reviews of live plays”. Okay, cool, but that newspaper doesn’t have anything to do with the conversation we’re having about this newspaper, which does publish some reviews of live plays. The word “some” is almost always too weak to be a correct answer on Strengthen, Weaken, Paradox, and Sufficient Assumption.

This feels like an Alternate Explanation for why there are five times as many reviews of movies vs. plays:

This would only hurt the author if she had been thinking (implausibly, since this is an insane notion) that “the newspaper does have the space to publish a review of every single movie and play released or performed”. She wasn’t thinking any crazy thought like that, so this answer can’t hurt her. She wasn’t arguing that every play / movie should be reviewed. She just seems to expect an equal number of plays / movies would be reviewed, if the arts editors were unbiased.

While this somewhat goes against the plausibility of the Author’s Explanation (“It doesn’t sound like the arts section has a bias that favors movies over plays; after all, they reviewed more plays last year than they did the year before.”) But it has very little impact, because even if the number of live plays reviewed has increased, it’s still only 1/5 the number of movies that get reviewed.