An international development organization, in response to a vitamin A deficiency among people in the impoverished nation of Tagus, has engineered a new breed of millet high in vitamin A. While seeds for this new type of millet cost more, farmers will be paid subsidies for farming the new variety of millet. Since millet is already a staple food in Tagus, people will readily adopt the new variety. To combat vitamin A deficiency, the government of Tagus should do everything it can to promote this new type of millet.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The recommendation by international development organization, in response to vitamin A deficiency among the people of Tagus is to use new breed of millet high in vitamin A. While it does seem like a good approach to battle vitamin A deficiency, we need to have an understanding of a few things in order to predict the effectiveness of this approach.
To encourage farmers to farm this type of millet which costs more than the traditional type, farmers will be paid subsidies but we need to find whether the total cost to farm the new variety after considering subsidies is still more or less compared to earlier. We would need an answer to this to predict the results of this approach because if the total cost is still more the farmers will not be ready to adopt this new variety considering the total cost.
We would also need to compare the yield of this new variant and how difficult is it to grow this new variety and how resistant is it to various environmental changes compared to the existing ones. Farmers will not be ready to adopt something new if that provides them with less earnings, if that is difficult to grow and if there is risk of decreased yield due to changing environment.
Another factor we need to consider before proposing this new variety to overcome Vitamin A deficiency is the percentage of people that intake millets as part of their diet regularly. If the percentage of people that consume millets is less, then only a fraction of total population will overcome Vitamin deficiency but not the whole nation.
These are some of the important things which we need to consider to predict the effectiveness of this approach in overcoming Vitamin A deficiency. After these questions are answered we can know more precisely if this idea is can potentially help combatting the problem.
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- People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers 33
- An international development organization in response to a vitamin A deficiency among people in the impoverished nation of Tagus has engineered a new breed of millet high in vitamin A While seeds for this new type of millet cost more farmers will be paid 60
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 9 15
No. of Words: 313 350
No. of Characters: 1478 1500
No. of Different Words: 147 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.206 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.722 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.781 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 96 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 83 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 53 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 34.778 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.564 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.778 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.45 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.792 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.305 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 245, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
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...approach to battle vitamin A deficiency, we need to have an understanding of a fe...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... the effectiveness of this approach. To encourage farmers to farm this type o...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... variety considering the total cost. We would also need to compare the yield ...
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Line 5, column 285, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun earnings is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...omething new if that provides them with less earnings, if that is difficult to grow ...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...d yield due to changing environment. Another factor we need to consider befor...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...deficiency but not the whole nation. These are some of the important things w...
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Line 9, column 20, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...the whole nation. These are some of the important things which we need to consi...
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Line 9, column 66, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[3]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'consider predicting'.
Suggestion: consider predicting
...f the important things which we need to consider to predict the effectiveness of this approach in o...
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Line 9, column 256, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to combat' or 'combat'.
Suggestion: to combat; combat
...ly if this idea is can potentially help combatting the problem.
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Line 10, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tentially help combatting the problem.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, still, then, while, more or less
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => 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: 1510.0 2260.96107784 67% => OK
No of words: 313.0 441.139720559 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.82428115016 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83179936976 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 204.123752495 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.460063897764 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 481.5 705.55239521 68% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 19.7664670659 51% => 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: 31.0 22.8473053892 136% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 34.971988791 57.8364921388 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.0 119.503703932 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.3 23.324526521 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.1 5.70786347227 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.414409739888 0.218282227539 190% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.178125360235 0.0743258471296 240% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.129885314718 0.0701772020484 185% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22401190445 0.128457276422 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111019245319 0.0628817314937 177% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 14.3799401198 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.47 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.27 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 98.500998004 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 12.3882235529 161% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.1389221557 129% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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