"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 recommendation above has many unanswered questions, without the answer to which the recommendation will not give the predicted results. Let’s look at those questions.
Firstly, we don’t know if the cause of the accidents is increase in number of mopeds on road. It might be because people walking on road don’t follow traffic rules or as a whole people don’t follow. Or the accidents may be because of the bad roads or drunk driving. It is not clear that increase in number of mopeds on road is directly related to increase in number of accidents.
On the similar lines, even if increase in number of mopeds is the cause of accident, limiting number of mopeds rented still wouldn’t guarantee decrease in number of accidents. People might get their own means of transport, or number of people walking on road might increase. It is assumed that these possibilities won’t occur. But, we don’t know that for sure.
The author speaks about Seaville island and how similar limitation caused 50% reduction in number of accidents. We don’t know if population of Seaville and Balmer are comparable, or the roads infrastructures are similar in both the islands. It might be possible that cause of accidents in Seaville is not same as that of Balmer. We can’t directly compare the two islands for same results, if we don’t have similar conditions for both.
Without answers to the above questions, we can’t cogently say that the recommendation will give the predicted results.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, look, may, still
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 55.5748502994 67% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1291.0 2260.96107784 57% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 248.0 441.139720559 56% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20564516129 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96837696647 4.56307096286 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96662134787 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 204.123752495 57% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.471774193548 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 393.3 705.55239521 56% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => 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: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.9346807025 57.8364921388 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.0666666667 119.503703932 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5333333333 23.324526521 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.73333333333 5.70786347227 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
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 : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.204984967668 0.218282227539 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0784052075864 0.0743258471296 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.063945158257 0.0701772020484 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103715872205 0.128457276422 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0677300880202 0.0628817314937 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.3550499002 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.64 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.74 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 98.500998004 53% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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