Nicholas Carr Hal And Me Analysis

HWE 1 Nicholas Carr is a 56 year old writer who mainly writes about technology, business, and culture. In the short essay “Hal and Me,” Nicolas Carr discusses how his own reading capacity and capability of concertation has decreased since the internet has come about. Carr uses friends and other writers/bloggers as major sources of evidence. A lot of evidence he uses are personal experiences, and what he thinks the internet has done to his reading ability, making the essay biased. When Carr uses evidence from other writers and bloggers they are only people’s opinions and not real facts. Although Carr gives a myriad of examples, and evidence supporting his claim, his argument is biased through his own experiences and lacks valuable empirical data to support his thesis. The main bases of Carr’s evidence that he uses throughout the essay are from his friends and unnamed, illegitimate authorities who are either writers or bloggers that have the same beliefs as him. The evidence he does obtain are mostly opinions, not hard evidence. According to Carr who was 54 when writing this essay stated, “For well over a decade now I’ve been spending a lot time online. I used to …show more content…
Carr mentions in his essay “In 2008, a research and consulting outfit nGenera released a study of the effects of Internet use on the young. The Company interviewed some six thousand member of what is calls the ‘Generation Net’—kids who have grown up using the Web” (Carr 567). The research stated in the essay does not describe whether the kids are rich or poor, the geographical location of the poll of kids, or how old the kids they pulled actually are. Using that research is weak form of evidence because it is only a snapshot in that time. It is known that the smaller the number of samples of a poll the more inaccurate the information is to be, they nGenera company only polled six thousand kids out of millions across the