A recently issued twenty-year study on headaches suffered by the residents of Mentia investigated the possible therapeutic effect of consuming salicylates. Salicylates are members of the same chemical family as aspirin, a medicine used to treat headaches. Although many foods are naturally rich in salicylates, food-processing companies also add salicylates to foods as preservatives. The twenty-year study found a correlation between the rise in the commercial use of salicylates and a steady decline in the average number of headaches reported by study participants. At the time when the study concluded, food-processing companies had just discovered that salicylates can also be used as flavor additives for foods, and, as a result, many companies plan to do so. Based on these study results, some health experts predict that residents of Mentia will suffer even fewer headaches in the future.
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.
The argument asserts that as the use of salicylates rise, the twenty-year headaches on Mentia residents should suffer fewer headaches. However, the argument has several unsubstantiated assumptions as is therefore unpersuasive as it stands.
First of all, the argument assumes that since the salicylates are the members of the same chemical family as aspirin, it will reduce the headaches on the residents of Mentia. However, to make this assumption accepted, there must be direct relationships between salicylates and mollifing headaches. Just because the salicylates are in the same chemical family as aspirine does not mean it has same medical effect. Therefore, the argument must suggest a direct relationship between the salicylates and the headache.
Secondly, the argument points out that since the commercial use of salicylates, like the use of preservatives and the flavor additives, rises the residents who suffer headache will decline. It substantiates its assertion by adding a statistics that the rise in the commercial use of salicylates resulted a decline in average number of headaches. However, the argument does not consider other possible interpretation on this event. Perhaps, other possible remedy for headache has been suggested. Moreover, there might be a new solution on certain types of headache cause, like the bad air condition. Thus, the increase of use of commercial use of salicylates does not mean that the consumption of salicylates will rise. There must be an extra information about the actual consumption of the salicylates in Mentia. Furthermore, developing new food additives using salicylates does not mean actual increase in production using it. There might be other research for mass producing it.
Finally, the argument asserts that the headaches will diminish even further in Mentia. However, the assertion relies on weak assumptions. Even with the pervasive use of salicylates there is no direct explanation about how much the people in Mentia consumes it. Just because salicylates is contained in every food product, does not actually lead to increase in consuming it. Moreover, there must be a research result about how much salicylates will soothe headache. Without this information, the assertion above cannot give logical explanation.
In conclusion, the argument's assertion that the resident who suffer headaches will decline, relies on weak evidence and unsubstantiated assumptions. Therefore, the argument fails to give logical explanation about its assertion.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 381 350
No. of Characters: 2080 1500
No. of Different Words: 159 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.418 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.459 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.024 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 163 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 133 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 105 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 70 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.565 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.948 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.652 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.333 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.333 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.072 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 426, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...ere must be a research result about how much salicylates will soothe headache. Witho...
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Line 5, column 20, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'arguments'' or 'argument's'?
Suggestion: arguments'; argument's
...ogical explanation. In conclusion, the arguments assertion that the resident who suffer ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 16.3942115768 159% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2134.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 381.0 441.139720559 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.60104986877 5.12650576532 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41805628031 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10820115709 2.78398813304 112% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.44094488189 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 693.0 705.55239521 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.917293585 57.8364921388 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.7826086957 119.503703932 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5652173913 23.324526521 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5652173913 5.70786347227 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.327553546511 0.218282227539 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101074886991 0.0743258471296 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.095344630982 0.0701772020484 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.197195636932 0.128457276422 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0786143103716 0.0628817314937 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 38.31 48.3550499002 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.9 12.5979740519 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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