The following memorandum is from the business manager of Happy Pancake House restaurants.
"Recently, butter has been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States. This change, however, has had little impact on our customers. In fact, only about 2 percent of customers have complained, indicating that an average of 98 people out of 100 are happy with the change. Furthermore, many servers have reported that a number of customers who ask for butter do not complain when they are given margarine instead. Clearly, either these customers do not distinguish butter from margarine or they use the term 'butter' to refer to either butter or margarine."
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
There is always a choice when it comes to the food that we consume. We can choose between french fries or mashed potatoes to go along with our steak dinner. We can have coffee with milk, creamer, or 2% milk. The options and endless and it is typically personal preference on who wants what. In restaurants that serve breakfast, it is typically butter or margarine that is used for cooking or for buttering the toast and pancakes. According to the business manager of Happy Pancake House restaurants, customers typically don’t understand the differences between butter and margarine. There are many flaws in this argument along with other fallacies mentioned in his statement.
Recognized by the HPH manager, he said that only 2% of customers have complained since they switched from butter to margarine. This equates to the 98 customers out of 100 are happy with the change. Though it may make sense to some, we cannot confirm this numbers and percentage fallacy. Not every customer will complain or speak up and we can’t believe that the rest of 98 customers are happy with the new circumstances. Customers may be content or have no problem with margarine and others will just eat their food without a peep. Though it doesn’t necessarily equate or confirm their happiness with the restaurant’s new change. Customers, who remained unspoken, does provide leverage for the manager assume that the majority are satisfied with the butter substitute.
The business manager mentions that his servers have not seen many customers complain when given the alternative to butter. This assertion is extremely vague to a keen reader. Let’s think about this for a moment. A number of his serving employees have received little to no complaints, but are the customers notified that they will be receiving margarine and not butter? We know that the customers are getting margarine, though there is nothing that mentions the customers are aware of the change. Perhaps some of these customers only know that the product was margarine after tasting it and accepted the fact that there is no butter. Also, how many of these servers and how many customers are involved in these contexts? The manager uses ‘many’ and ‘a number of’ to validate his position and without the right details, we don’t know for certain.
Butter and margarine are conceptually used for similar things. It is both used for cooking, spreading, and making food rich. Though both products may look similar, they are also different in taste and texture. However, the HPH manager believes that his customers cannot tell the variance between the two. His based his assumption on the two-previous known contents: percentage of happy customers and little to no complaints to servers. Customers will not always complain if there is butter and they will be content with the substitute. They won’t fuss over something so miniscule and they understand this is a common trend in restaurants. There is not guarantee that it goes as far as to say that these customers don’t know the differences.
Butter and margarine can be used interchangeably in the restaurant world, but not all food places will have both. The Happy Pancake House manager made a change to only carry margarine and discontinue the use of butter. Based on several assumptions on few numbers and validations, the manager asserted that people don’t truly understand the distinction and use both terms synonymously in the food realm. Nonetheless, we cannot agree with the argument that has been made for several reasons that can be broken down into fallacies.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 8, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...mers don't know the differences. Butter and margarine can be used interch...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, may, nonetheless, so, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 31.0 11.1786427146 277% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 22.0 13.6137724551 162% => OK
Pronoun: 61.0 28.8173652695 212% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3055.0 2260.96107784 135% => OK
No of words: 591.0 441.139720559 134% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16920473773 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.93056706295 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80896886525 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 269.0 204.123752495 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.455160744501 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 937.8 705.55239521 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 4.96107784431 282% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 34.0 19.7664670659 172% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.0707588556 57.8364921388 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 89.8529411765 119.503703932 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3823529412 23.324526521 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.67647058824 5.70786347227 29% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
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: 0.217435841252 0.218282227539 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0610235348903 0.0743258471296 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0705208170147 0.0701772020484 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137535343705 0.128457276422 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0253236788437 0.0628817314937 40% => 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: 11.6 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.3550499002 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.41 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 98.500998004 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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