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.
While decreasing the supply of housing in an area will increase the prices of the homes in the area, the magnitude of an increase can vary. There are many other factors that can lead to increases to home prices besides decreasing the housing supply in an area. These factors can include the industry in an area.
The proponents of the measure base their argument on the fact that Chestnut County had established a previous measure ten years ago and the increases to the home prices were gradual over time. This arguement relies on the context regarding the measure.
Things that contribute to this context include whether there has been an increase in employment rates or population in the county compared to ten years ago. If there has been dramatic changes in population or employment, then this nullify their argument since there would be no comparison between the two situations.
Another element that would have to answer is the demographics of the county compared to those from ten years ago. If there were an increase in money in the county over the past ten years, it could explain the reason that home prices have increased rather than the decrease in housing supply. If the demographics of the county were vastly different from ten years ago, then that argument would be destroyed since it would comparing apples to oranges. The proponents of the measure must be able to show that Chestnut County has not changed significantly in the past ten years.
The opponents of the measure use the example of Pine County adoption of restrictions fifteen years as evidence against restricting the development of existing farmland in the county. This argument relies on the assumption that Pine and Chestnut county are similiar in demographics and attritubes. This assumption could be answered by looking at the changes in population between the two counties over the past fifteen years, changes in industries, changes in populations of various races, age groups and religious groups. If Chestnut count was comparable to Pine County, then the analysis regarding the increasing in housing prices could be true. However, it would not be complete with the context of the descision by Pine County to restrict farmland developments. If this context were not similiar to the current context in Chestnut county, the argument were void. The primary reason for this is because different elements of contexts can have significant impacts on homepricing. If Pine county forced to build less houses in the farmland areas, it could cause an increase in prices in the whole county since the supply would experience a negative shock and force the prices to increase.
While decreasing home supplies will increase pricing, the how much of an increase may not be know. This depends on the context of the county and other elements associated with the decrease in the supply. The context is key in determining how much the prices for housing will increase.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 488 350
No. of Characters: 2409 1500
No. of Different Words: 185 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.7 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.936 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.585 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 182 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 141 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 92 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.182 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.517 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.343 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.585 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.11 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 11, column 422, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'compare'
Suggestion: compare
...ument would be destroyed since it would comparing apples to oranges. The proponents of ...
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Line 19, column 366, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun houses is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...pricing. If Pine county forced to build less houses in the farmland areas, it could ...
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Line 23, column 55, Rule ID: THE_HOW[1]
Message: Did you mean 'how'?
Suggestion: how
...ng home supplies will increase pricing, the how much of an increase may not be know. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, however, if, look, may, regarding, so, then, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 80.0 55.5748502994 144% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2485.0 2260.96107784 110% => OK
No of words: 488.0 441.139720559 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09221311475 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70007681154 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62981858962 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 204.123752495 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.397540983607 0.468620217663 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 760.5 705.55239521 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.70958083832 295% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.4439706701 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.954545455 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1818181818 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.90909090909 5.70786347227 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 11.0 5.15768463074 213% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0987993701919 0.218282227539 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0369196679653 0.0743258471296 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0404872575572 0.0701772020484 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0401257788954 0.128457276422 31% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0382429284069 0.0628817314937 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.3799401198 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 98.500998004 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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