Identify each example as either "supported by evidence" or "not supported by evidence."

1)Critic John Smith asserts that Hemingway
should not be grouped with other modernist
writers.

2)Just before the Great Depression, the United
States was prospering. Unemployment dipped
to a low of 3 percent, while the gross national
product topped $1 trillion.

3)A study of the 100 most profitable public
companies showed increased investment in
new technologies each year for the last decade.

4)Everyone knows that Italians are the finest
cooks in the world, along with the French.