In her 2010 TED Talk, novelist Adora Svitak gave an address that has been watched over 5 million times, inspiring her audience to appreciate the power of kids. She identifies the root of the problem this way: "It has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it. Now, if you don't trust someone, you place restrictions on them, right? If I doubt my older sister's ability to pay back the ten percent interest I established on her last loan, I'm going to withhold her ability to get more money from me until she pays it back. True story, by the way. In this passage, Svitak utilizes examples to support her point:
1) serial examples
2) an extended example
3) quantification
4) comparisons
5) testimony.