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, concerned about county’s becoming overdeveloped and proposed measure that would prevent the development of existing farmland by limiting the supply of new housing will eventually increase the price of housing in county. This statement of increasing the price of housing in the county is made by studying the result of Chestnut County which establish similar kind of pattern a decade ago. On the other hand Pine County adopted same pattern fifteen years ago which lead to increase the price rate of housing. However, before this recommendation can be evaluated, some question need to answer.
To begin with, what was the population of Chestnut County ten years ago? Because, population plays very important role in such situations. Maybe at that point population was less so that area was not fully develop and as the population was less, so its progressing rate is also slow which lead to modest change in the price of housing by now. Whereas assuming that, the population of Pine County was more fifteen years ago and it was totally develop area so more and more people were migrating to that place which results in increasing the price of housing by now. If we assume that population of Maple County is moderate compare to other two than there will be no drastic change in price of housing after few years.
In addition, what was the size of the Chestnut and Pine County when these measures were taken? Maybe, the size of Chestnut County (area wise) was more than Pine County so housing was not the issue for Chestnut County so their housing rate has increased modestly since. Whereas on other hand size of Pine County was less (area wise) so there was drastic increase in housing rate in last fifteen years. If either of this scenarios are true than we cannot compare these two Counties until or unless Maple County’s size is similar to any of those two mention above.
In conclusion, we cannot assume that the result of limiting the supply of new housing, could lead to significant increases in the price of housing in the county. If we get more evidence and answer to above question considering all those points mentioned than this measure can be overlooked.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 376 350
No. of Characters: 1784 1500
No. of Different Words: 164 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.403 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.745 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.391 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 124 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 91 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 54 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 28 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.067 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.227 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.867 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.411 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.592 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.201 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 75, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Because” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ation of Chestnut County ten years ago? Because, population plays very important role i...
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Line 4, column 251, Rule ID: IT_IS[7]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...elop and as the population was less, so its progressing rate is also slow which lea...
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Line 4, column 444, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'developed'.
Suggestion: developed
...re fifteen years ago and it was totally develop area so more and more people were migra...
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Line 6, column 412, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...ate in last fifteen years. If either of this scenarios are true than we cannot compa...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...d than this measure can be overlooked.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, look, may, so, whereas, as to, in addition, in conclusion, kind of, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1836.0 2260.96107784 81% => OK
No of words: 376.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8829787234 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45513730475 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.449468085106 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 583.2 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.5065075332 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.4 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0666666667 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.93333333333 5.70786347227 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.259040012152 0.218282227539 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0997003994532 0.0743258471296 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110709783524 0.0701772020484 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159511897884 0.128457276422 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.113749177264 0.0628817314937 181% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.77 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 98.500998004 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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