The argument seems intriguing at first, but on deep analysis I found it to be ambiguous and presented with many flaws. The claims in the argument are based on assumptions with evidence, in some cases evidences are provided but they are not appropriate to the context of the situation. The argument is flawed due to numerous reasons. Firstly, the argument says that “Prunty County last year lowered its speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all county highways” assuming that lowering the speed limit would bring down the accidents on highways. This can be stated as “Assumed cause and effect” where the authorities are assuming that by bringing down the speed limits would reduce the accidents. What if a majority of accidents are happening not due to over speeding? Maybe accident in Prunty County are happening due to poor construction of roads or absence of traffic signals at important junctions. If these are the causes of accident, then reducing the speed limit from 55 to 45 mph would bring no change or only infinitesimal change (if any) in the accident rate in Prunty County. If the evidence regarding cause of accidents would have been provided, the authorities could have taken proactive measures to combat the accidents.
Secondly, the argument takes the reference of Butler County that took a road improvement project five years ago and concludes that “25 percent fewer reported accidents in Butler County this past year than there were five years ago”. However, the cause for this drop of accidents in Butler County cannot be assumed to be because of the road improvement project as there is no evidence provided for the same. It is important to think that what brought the accident rate down in Butler County? Maybe people have started becoming more careful while driving or maybe it is a pandemic year where very few vehicles are on the highway. If less vehicles are on the highways, the accidents reported will be surely less. So it cannot be concluded that the reduction of accidents in Butler County is due to the road improvement project.
Consequently, if Butler County is not assured of having success with the road improvement project, a detailed analysis of the cause and effect of the project has to be analyzed. Even if, due to the project, accident rate came down in Butler County, it cannot be concluded the same for Prunty County as these two are different. What was successful for them may not be successful for us.
All in all, this argument seems to be vague with claims based on assumptions and no evidence to back up. The exorbitant amount of assumptions and conclusions based on those assumptions makes the argument poorly written.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 455 350
No. of Characters: 2173 1500
No. of Different Words: 198 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.619 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.776 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.548 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 156 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 113 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 87 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.75 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.336 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.7 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.323 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.498 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.122 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 286, 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.
...priate to the context of the situation. The argument is flawed due to numerous reas...
^^^
Line 3, column 632, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun vehicles is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...ery few vehicles are on the highway. If less vehicles are on the highways, the accid...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, firstly, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, while, as to, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2239.0 2260.96107784 99% => OK
No of words: 455.0 441.139720559 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92087912088 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61852021839 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64720690229 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.457142857143 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 697.5 705.55239521 99% => 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: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.8848674449 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.95 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.75 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.95 5.70786347227 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 6.88822355289 218% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.289210343884 0.218282227539 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0857772315002 0.0743258471296 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107947548497 0.0701772020484 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156177012647 0.128457276422 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0919894672251 0.0628817314937 146% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 98.500998004 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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