Both the passage and the lucturer are discussing the humpback whales navigating system. The lucturer thinks that the idea of humpback wahles navigating by the stars is fascinating but the evidences provided by the passage does not seem to be ture.
First, he illustrates that there is no connection between intelligence and navigating by stars, in order to clear up this confusion he presents an example of ducks that have an average intelligence level but they navigate by stars just because they were born with this instinct.
Second, having a bio magnitute part in their brain, humpback whales can connect with the earths magnetic field for their orientations, so it will make much more sense if we think they use earths magnetic field for navigating than the stars.
Third, the spy-hopping has nothing to do with looking up to the stars, many other animals do the spy-hopping, for an instance, however sharks do not migrate, they use spy-hopping, actually they use it for hunting and they do not look up to the sky. So this theory could be considered pure speculation.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, however, if, look, second, so, third
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 12.0772626932 25% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 898.0 1373.03311258 65% => OK
No of words: 182.0 270.72406181 67% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.93406593407 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.67297393991 4.04702891845 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73180270978 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 110.0 145.348785872 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.604395604396 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 272.7 419.366225166 65% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.23620309051 24% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 6.0 13.0662251656 46% => 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: 30.0 21.2450331126 141% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 85.4770924478 49.2860985944 173% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.666666667 110.228320801 136% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.3333333333 21.698381199 140% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.66666666667 7.06452816374 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.388143136971 0.272083759551 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.163996772414 0.0996497079465 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0702914775949 0.0662205650399 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.204905287911 0.162205337803 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0416390440928 0.0443174109184 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 13.3589403974 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 53.8541721854 92% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.91 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 35.0 63.6247240618 55% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.498013245 133% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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