A recent study rating 300 male and female Mentian advertising executives according to the average number of hours they sleep per night showed an association between the amount of sleep the executives need and the success of their firms. Of the advertising firms studied, those whose executives reported needing no more than 6 hours of sleep per night had higher profit margins and faster growth. These results suggest that if a business wants to prosper, it should hire only people who need less than 6 hours of sleep per night.
According to an article in a business magazine, only people who need 6 hours or less sleep should be hired. The article came to this conclusion based on the fact that executives in an advertising firm who needed no more than 6 hours of sleep had higher profit margins and faster growth. The suggestion and the rationality behind it may seem plausible at first glance. But before accepting this cessation, the following questions need to be answered.
Firstly, did all executives have the same skill level? Was the comparison done within similar educated and ranks of executives? If the skill levels, rank, and education of the executives had varied, then to consider sleep as the measure of success is absurd. Isn't it possible that these people are good at their jobs cause they are more skilled, not cause they require less sleep? Also, a higher ranking employee with more experience will most definitely outperform an entry level novice. Sleep will have nothing to do with it.
Secondly, is it applicable for all businesses? The article suggests that all businesses should hire people who require 6 hours or less sleep per night. But the study they did was based on an advertising agency. It's a possibility that advertising agency work is less onerous and thus their executives require less sleep to relieve their fatigue. On the other hand, people working in construction work arduously and might require more sleep to exonerate their tiredness and gain the energy. It's not possible to judge all businesses based on the data obtained from a singular business. Each business vary from the other requiring different amount of strength and different amount of sleep for the employees.
Finally, were the executives honest about their sleep cycles? The study done on the executives may not have been anonymous and this may have led the executives to lie in fear of retiliation. The executives may have wanted to impress their bosses and lied that they require less sleep in hopes of showing that they were more productive. The employees may actually require more than 6 hours of sleep. Also, maybe the workload for the previous weeks had been tremendous leading most employees to sleep less than 6 hours and the question asked them to specify the amount of sleep they had in the last week. This made them answer that they require only 6 hours of sleep. But this is not the usual case.
In conclusion, in its present form, the suggestion that businesses should hire employees who require 6 hours or less sleep for a more profitable venture erroneous. The author should answer the aforementioned questions, perhaps in an empirical study to make the article more lucid. This will allow the readers to properly assess the feasibility of the conjecture.
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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: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 27 15
No. of Words: 464 350
No. of Characters: 2241 1500
No. of Different Words: 210 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.641 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.83 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.512 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 145 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 109 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 56 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.185 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.596 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.593 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.294 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.473 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.099 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 81, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun hours is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...gazine, only people who need 6 hours or less sleep should be hired. The article came...
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Line 3, column 260, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: Isn't
...ep as the measure of success is absurd. Isnt it possible that these people are good ...
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Line 5, column 131, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun hours is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...ould hire people who require 6 hours or less sleep per night. But the study they did...
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Line 5, column 212, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: It's; It is
...did was based on an advertising agency. Its a possibility that advertising agency w...
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Line 7, column 337, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...showing that they were more productive. The employees may actually require more tha...
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Line 9, column 113, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun hours is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...d hire employees who require 6 hours or less sleep for a more profitable venture err...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, thus, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2297.0 2260.96107784 102% => OK
No of words: 463.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96112311015 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63868890866 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58735220767 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.460043196544 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 709.2 705.55239521 101% => 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: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.1304207742 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.0740740741 119.503703932 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1481481481 23.324526521 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.48148148148 5.70786347227 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.67664670659 299% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.31886033571 0.218282227539 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0906968465345 0.0743258471296 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0655961477472 0.0701772020484 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1798257348 0.128457276422 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0603019966219 0.0628817314937 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 14.3799401198 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.3550499002 130% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.19 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 98.500998004 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 12.3882235529 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => 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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