The council of Maple County, concerned about the county's becoming overdeveloped, is debating a proposed measure that would prevent the development of existing farmland in the county. But the council is also concerned that such a restriction, by limiting the supply of new housing, could lead to significant increases in the price of housing in the county. Proponents of the measure note that Chestnut County established a similar measure ten years ago, and its housing prices have increased only modestly since. However, opponents of the measure note that Pine County adopted restrictions on the development of new residential housing fifteen years ago, and its housing prices have since more than doubled. The council currently predicts that the proposed measure, if passed, will result in a significant increase in housing prices in Maple County.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
The council of Maple county despite their concern for overdevelopment, predicts that putting restriction on existing farmland would result in a significant increase in housing prices in the county, before this measure could be passed certain questions are needed to be answered by the council.
The first question to be asked is why is there not enough data from the two counties on why the prices of pine county is doubled and why that of chestnut increased moderately. The proponents and opponents of the restriction only noted that the two counties house prices changed, no other information was given. If Maple county’s council should apply the same measure without enough evidence, there is no certainty that the prices of housing would increase significantly or it will increase moderately. The councils of each county could be asked certain questions such as: the total number of residents, the level of development of the county before and after the restriction was passed.
Another question to be asked is why was other counties not evaluated? This is a major question because a conclusion cannot be drawn from two counties when there are other counties such as, cherry county, vigor county, peanut county surrounding Maple county. The council could put up a neutral group that would carry out the evaluation of 10-15 counties and see if the house prices increased or reduced. The results of the neutral group, proponents and opponents of the restriction would determine if the restriction should be passed.
Furthermore, the question of why data was not consistent in terms of the number of years that was viewed for each county, chestnut county’s restriction was only noted for 10 years and not 15 years like that of pine county. The proponents could have gone further to check for the house prices of chestnut county, if there was changes after 15 years and the opponents could have also checked for pine county’s housing prices after ten years if there was a significant difference. The prices of the houses at chestnut county could have doubled after 15 years but the proponents only noted for the duration of 10 years. The restriction in other counties might have started before pine county, it could be 20-25 years. The number of years for the restriction of each county should be looked into.
In conclusion, there are questions that are needed to be answered by the council about the other necessary information that were not asked from the council of pine and chestnut county, evaluation of other surrounding counties and the inconsistency of the number of years of the restriction in pine, chestnut and the surrounding counties. With these questions answered the council could determine if the housing prices would increase significantly.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 454 350
No. of Characters: 2268 1500
No. of Different Words: 149 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.616 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.996 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.642 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 165 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 116 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 84 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 49 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.375 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.889 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.688 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.43 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.43 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.149 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 176, 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.
... that of chestnut increased moderately. The proponents and opponents of the restric...
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Line 2, column 687, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e and after the restriction was passed. Another question to be asked is why was ...
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Line 4, column 616, 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.
...nly noted for the duration of 10 years. The restriction in other counties might hav...
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Line 4, column 714, 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.
...e pine county, it could be 20-25 years. The number of years for the restriction of ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, if, look, so, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2315.0 2260.96107784 102% => OK
No of words: 454.0 441.139720559 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09911894273 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61598047577 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72934154066 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 204.123752495 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.343612334802 0.468620217663 73% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 686.7 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 73.6740869896 57.8364921388 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.6875 119.503703932 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.375 23.324526521 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.1875 5.70786347227 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.298471739219 0.218282227539 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.131908360543 0.0743258471296 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.067426088712 0.0701772020484 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.218239149833 0.128457276422 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0709283871676 0.0628817314937 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 14.3799401198 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 48.3550499002 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.46 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 98.500998004 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => 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
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