The following appeared in a letter from a homeowner to a friend.
"Of the two leading real estate firms in our town — Adams Realty and Fitch Realty — Adams Realty is clearly superior. Adams has 40 real estate agents; in contrast, Fitch has 25, many of whom work only part-time. Moreover, Adams' revenue last year was twice as high as that of Fitch and included home sales that averaged $168,000, compared to Fitch's $144,000. Homes listed with Adams sell faster as well: ten years ago I listed my home with Fitch, and it took more than four months to sell; last year, when I sold another home, I listed it with Adams, and it took only one month. Thus, if you want to sell your home quickly and at a good price, you should use Adams Realty."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
First of all, as the number of real estate agents is higher in Adams than in Fitch, it may not be a success indicator that the revenue of the first one was twice as high as that of the second one. For example, it can be supposed from the data presented that every agent sells houses at the same rate, taking into account also that many of the sellers who work for Fitch are hired for a part-time job. This would mean that, in terms of percentage of houses sold per agent per hour, both companies are similar, so this would mean that, in this sense, Adams Realty is not superior.
Secondly, the average value of the houses they sold might not be an indicator of their achievements. To exemplify this, if Adams Realty had houses that were $200,000 worth as an average and they sold them for $168,000, and Fitch Realty had ones that were $100,000 worth and they sold them for $144,000, it is clear that Fitch’s would be superior to the first company in terms of obtaining benefits. As the average value of the houses that both real estate firms had is not part of the data provided, it cannot be concluded that, in terms of benefits, Adams is superior.
Thirdly, regarding the fourth sentence, as anyone with basic knowledge about economics would know, demand is a parameter that is hugely variable along time, both short-term and long-term. This means that, unless an equivalence formula is applied to bring both cases to the same time scenario in order to compare them regardless from the demand difference, the comparison made cannot hold as a superiority proof. As well as this, it should be highlighted that the houses that the homeowner compares are different, so the second one may have been more appealing for the customers than the first one, and this could have been the reason for its faster sale. For both reasons, this sentence is almost useless for proving the claim made.
In conclusion, the only argument that can prove the superiority of Adams Realty against Fitch Realty is the number of employees, as the other ones would need more data to support their validity to reach that conclusion. However, in terms of benefit to the customer, as he will be attended by only one agent, the number of employees is completely unimportant, so it can be concluded that the statement made would need more data to verify its validity.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 413 350
No. of Characters: 1872 1500
No. of Different Words: 186 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.508 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.533 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.281 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 113 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 79 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 53 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 34.417 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.665 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.375 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.616 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.13 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 146, Rule ID: ALONG_TIME[1]
Message: Did you mean 'a long time'?
Suggestion: a long time
... is a parameter that is hugely variable along time, both short-term and long-term. This me...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, well, for example, in conclusion, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 28.8173652695 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1931.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 413.0 441.139720559 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.67554479419 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50803742585 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40105085972 2.78398813304 86% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 204.123752495 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.467312348668 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 595.8 705.55239521 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.70958083832 295% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 34.0 22.8473053892 149% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 56.7021947449 57.8364921388 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 160.916666667 119.503703932 135% => OK
Words per sentence: 34.4166666667 23.324526521 148% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.5 5.70786347227 201% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.180076919605 0.218282227539 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0707360181446 0.0743258471296 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.07360338748 0.0701772020484 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120205803635 0.128457276422 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0631149413466 0.0628817314937 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.8 14.3799401198 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.89 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.46 12.5979740519 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 12.3882235529 137% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.6 11.1389221557 140% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.