The following appeared in a memo from the Board of Directors of Butler Manufacturing.
"During the past year, workers at Butler Manufacturing reported 30 percent more on-the-job accidents than workers at nearby Panoply Industries, where the work shifts are one hour shorter than ours. A recent government study reports that fatigue and sleep deprivation among workers are significant contributing factors in many on-the-job accidents. Therefore, we recommend that Butler Manufacturing shorten each of its work shifts by one hour. Shorter shifts will allow Butler to improve its safety record by ensuring that its employees are adequately rested."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order 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.
In the memo from the Board of Directors of Butler Manufacturing, it is stated that fatigue and sleep deprivation are causing more on-the-job accidents at Butler Manufacturing than Panoply Industries because Butler Manufacturing has an hour longer work shift than Panoply Industries. The Board of Directors is recommending shortening one hour of each work shift in order to ensure the reduction of on-the-job accidents so that employers can take enough rest. However, before this recommendation can be properly evaluated, three questions must be answered.
First of all, are the type of work, factory environment, and condition of equipment in terms of safety at both factories the same? It is possible that Butler Manufacturing manufactures one type of product, on the other hand, Panoply Industries produces different types of things in their factory. Perhaps, the manufacturing mechanism may be different at both places. Further, the condition of the equipment used in Butler Manufacturing is not good which may cause these accidents. On the other hand, Panoply Industries has the best equipment of the current era. If either of these scenarios has merit, then the conclusion drawn in the original argument is significantly weakened.
Secondly, did Butler Manufacturing experience a similar amount of on-the-job accidents with the same hours of work shifts before this past year? The Board of Directors of Butler Manufacturing prematurely assumes that the accidents happening during the past year can be taken into account to make a comparison with Panoply Industries. However, that is not the case. Perhaps, there was no significant increase in on-the-job accidents last year or the years before that in comparison to Panoply Industries. It is possible that Panoply Industries introduced equipment with advanced safety mechanisms that they have reduced their own rate of accidents, making it look like there is an increase in on-the-job accidents at Butler Manufacturing. If the above is true, then the argument does not hold water.
Finally, do the employees take the same amount of rest after completing their work shifts at the same time? The Board of Directors is making this assumption that amount of work hours determines the amount of rest the employees take which creates a causal relationship between sleep and accidents. It is possible that the employees don't reach their home at the same time, which leads to a variation in their sleep time. Perhaps, some employees live close to their workplace and some live very far from their workplace. In the case of employees who live really far away, have to get up early to reach their workplace on time which enables them to have less sleep. If the aforementioned notions are valid, then the argument mentioned in the memo is significantly weakened.
In conclusion, the argument, as it stands now, is considerably, flawed due to its reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. If these questions can be answered, and more evidence is offered, perhaps in the form of a systematic research study, then it will be possible to fully evaluate the viability of the proposed recommendation to shorten the hours of each work shift to ensure proper rest of employees.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 517 350
No. of Characters: 2645 1500
No. of Different Words: 218 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.768 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.116 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.926 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 182 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 147 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 114 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 90 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.478 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.824 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.739 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.3 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.509 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.099 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 332, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, look, may, really, second, secondly, so, then, in conclusion, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 90.0 55.5748502994 162% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2715.0 2260.96107784 120% => OK
No of words: 516.0 441.139720559 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26162790698 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76609204519 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99885990295 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 204.123752495 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.449612403101 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 846.0 705.55239521 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.5567115105 57.8364921388 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.043478261 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4347826087 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.52173913043 5.70786347227 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => 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: 0.345600754154 0.218282227539 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0951065267622 0.0743258471296 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11108487864 0.0701772020484 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.198969381647 0.128457276422 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.133715047395 0.0628817314937 213% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 98.500998004 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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