The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Balmer Island Gazette.
"On Balmer Island, where mopeds serve as a popular form of transportation, the population increases to 100,000 during the summer months. To reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balmer Island should limit the number of mopeds rented by the island's moped rental companies from 50 per day to 25 per day during the summer season. By limiting the number of rentals, the town council will attain the 50 percent annual reduction in moped accidents that was achieved last year on the neighboring island of Seaville, when Seaville's town council enforced similar limits on moped rentals."
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.
The author of the letter avers that by reducing the number of mopeds rented on Balmer Island, accidents would be halved, citing experience from the neighboring island of Seaville. While the argument seems to be quite plausible at first glance, a closer scrutiny sheds light on a plethora of questions yet to be answered, which are crucial for the effectiveness and feasibility of the reform.
To begin with, it is necessary to figure out the relationship between the number of mopeds and accident rates. Intuitively, attributting the number of accidents to increased population and therefore a jump in moped use is reasonable. But many other factors can also contribute to accidents, and a thorough investigation is needed. For instance, it is possible that most travellers comming during summer months choose to walk on the road instead of taking mopeds, which also makes them more prone to accidents.
What is more, even if the number of accidents are positively correlated to the number of mopeds rented, it is still questionable for the city council to set the limit of moped for rent to 25 per day. Fewer mopeds on the roads can definetely lower accident rates; nonetheless, to what extant this policy is going to work remains elusive. To predict the possible outcome, the city council would need to analysis the traffic condition and accidents on Balmer Island in summers.
Last but not least, the author believes that by following the practice on the neiboring island of Seaville, Balmer Island can also half its moped accidents. Since little information about Seaville Island is proffered here, this predictment can hardly be reliable. There lies a possibility that the authority on Seaville Island encouraged people to take public transportation, or that Seaville Island has a more rigorous traffic law, making accidents less likely to occur. Before answering these questions, it is too reckless for the author to asserts that the reform on Balmer Island can guarantee the same outcome as Seaville.
In conclusion, it may be true that the city council of Balmer Island ought to half the number of mopeds available for rent to diminish moped accidents. But the arguments are rife with unanswered questions and are not substantiated by the evidence in the letter, severely undermining the valuation of the recommendation.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, nonetheless, so, still, therefore, while, for instance, in conclusion, to begin with, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1961.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 380.0 441.139720559 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16052631579 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41515443553 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86800455692 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536842105263 0.468620217663 115% => OK
syllable_count: 621.9 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.471057884232 212% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.3157188798 57.8364921388 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.733333333 119.503703932 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.3333333333 23.324526521 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.33333333333 5.70786347227 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
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: 0.281280401645 0.218282227539 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0996380897021 0.0743258471296 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0750590411724 0.0701772020484 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156648175311 0.128457276422 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0240514690281 0.0628817314937 38% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.16 8.32208582834 110% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 98.500998004 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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