Self recognition
The reading passage is about some evidence that can be considered as a proof of animal self-awareness. It reviews the results of an experiment on chimpanzees, which is called Mark test. The lecturer brings about some flaws in those results that cast doubt on the conclusion, which is supported by the author of the passage.
First of all, the lecturer mentions a consistency issue that makes the results of the Mark test unreliable. In a similar experiment on 11 cases, one of the chimps did not touch his face even once in a while. It seems that not all the test animals touch the marks on their faces while being exposed to their mirror image. Therefore, the passage claim that says more frequent facial manipulation in front of a mirror is because of self image recognition is refuted.
Second, according to the lecturer, in another experiment one of the animals touched and rubbed the red marks off his face even before recovering from anesthesia. This showed that frequent touching can be independent of the presence of a mirror. Thus, the claim by the passage that a mirror leads to a higher number of face touching is rejected.
Finally, the lecturer indicates that self-grooming and facial expressions are parts of normal social behaviors of chimpanzees. They do such things in front of their peers, the same way they do in front of a mirror. Thus, it cannot be concluded that self-grooming is a result of self-image recognition or a social norm among the chimps.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, second, so, therefore, thus, while, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1230.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 253.0 270.72406181 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.86166007905 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80281470709 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.533596837945 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 379.8 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 23.327105396 49.2860985944 47% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 94.6153846154 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4615384615 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.92307692308 7.06452816374 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 4.33554083885 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.27373068433 211% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.190804656509 0.272083759551 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0709482236311 0.0996497079465 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.125499628745 0.0662205650399 190% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11742636509 0.162205337803 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.105631282957 0.0443174109184 238% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.3589403974 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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