The council of Maple County, concerned about the county's becoming overdeveloped, is debating a proposed measure that would prevent the development of existing farmland in the county. But the council is also concerned that such a restriction, by limiting the supply of new housing, could lead to significant increases in the price of housing in the county. Proponents of the measure note that Chestnut County established a similar measure ten years ago, and its housing prices have increased only modestly since. However, opponents of the measure note that Pine County adopted restrictions on the development of new residential housing fifteen years ago, and its housing prices have since more than doubled. The council currently predicts that the proposed measure, if passed, will result in a significant increase in housing prices in Maple County.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
Argument is presented that Maple County is becoming overdeveloped and is debating a proposed measure to prevent the development of farmland. County is reaching to this decision by making comparison with other two counties who practiced same measure few years back. Proponents make comparison with Chestnut county which experienced housing price increase modestly in ten years. Opponents presenting comparison with Pine County where housing prices are more than doubled in last fifteen year. Reason presented to support argument is not very cogent and is rife with many assumptions which can weaken the argument if proves false.
First assumption is economy of three counties is same. Mostly not all the counties are same, some are developed and have more career opportunities and other less. In the argument there is no information provided about measure on which Maple county is compared with Chestnut and Pine counties. Only one reason is being used that they practiced preventing development of existing farmland ten or fifteen years ago. It is possible that in Pine county more new businesses opened since last fifteen years and people from other parts of country moved there and which caused doubling the housing price and Chestnut county doesn't provide much career opportunities and population of this county is not changing much from last ten years which is causing modest increase in housing price.
Second perception is that measure which was relevant fifteen years back is relevant now. Chestnut county established same measure ten year back and from last ten years experienced housing price increase modestly and Pine county used similar practice fifteen years ago and housing prices are more than double since. This data is too old to compare with current situation in Maple county. Even if all three counties are similar, still it may be not true whatever was the situation ten years back is also true now. May be in Pine county people were struggling for housing fifteen years back and they stopped development which worsen the situation and doubled housing price, on the other hand, ten years back in chestnut county people were not facing housing problem and county felt to stop development, which didn't effect much the housing price. No information provided in the argument about housing situation in Maple county and how county council is considering that county is overdeveloped?
In conclusion, no current statistics presented in the argument and the measure of overdevelopment of county, which pose restriction on reaching the conclusion of argument that prices will definitely be increased after preventing development. Thus, author need to gather more data and conduct analysis about Maple county and other comparing counties before reaching to the conclusion.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, may, second, so, still, thus, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.6327345309 168% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 11.1786427146 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2364.0 2260.96107784 105% => OK
No of words: 441.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36054421769 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58257569496 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65302633851 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 204.123752495 94% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.43537414966 0.468620217663 93% => OK
syllable_count: 726.3 705.55239521 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 0.0 8.76447105788 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 82.9983638095 57.8364921388 144% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.333333333 119.503703932 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5 23.324526521 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.38888888889 5.70786347227 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175231708675 0.218282227539 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.079172536118 0.0743258471296 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0726042325492 0.0701772020484 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124289832852 0.128457276422 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0029824545924 0.0628817314937 5% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.3799401198 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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