The following appeared in a health magazine published in Corpora.
"Medical experts say that only one-quarter of Corpora's citizens meet the current standards for adequate physical fitness, even though twenty years ago, one-half of all of Corpora's citizens met the standards as then defined. But these experts are mistaken when they suggest that spending too much time using computers has caused a decline in fitness. Since overall fitness levels are highest in regions of Corpora where levels of computer ownership are also highest, it is clear that using computers has not made citizens less physically fit. Instead, as shown by this year's unusually low expenditures on fitness-related products and services, the recent decline in the economy is most likely the cause, and fitness levels will improve when the economy does."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The following argument is flawed for numerous reasons. Primarily, the argument is based on the unwarranted assumption that poor state of economy and low expenditures on fitness-related products have made citizens less physically fit, rendering this conclusion invalid.
The argument fails to provide any justification that high level of computer ownership and spending too much time using these computers has not caused the decline in fitness. It is implied from the argument that twenty years ago Corpora's citizens met the standards for physical fitness. However, the argument does not state anything about use of computer and computer ownership twenty years ago. The argument would have been stronger had it provided that people, twenty years ago, did not own computers and therefore had better physical and fitness levels.
The argument leaves many unwarranted questions. It is stated that less expenditures on fitness-related products and services are the main causes that people of Corpora do not have enough physical exercise. However, the argument does not say anything about fitness-related services two decades ago in Corpora when higher percentage of Corpora's citizens met the standards for physical fitness. The argument could have been more convincing if it had provided more evidance regarding high expenditures on fitness-related products and services twenty years ago.
The argument also claims without warrant that economy had direct influences on Corpora's citizens’ fitness levels. The argument states that poor state of economy discourages people of Corpora from buying fitness-related services. On the other hand, the argument implies that people of Corpora own computers and spend so much time on using them. So there is a vivid pradox that if the economy is not thriving these days in Corpora, its citizens should not have been able to buy and own computers since computers are expensive devices.
Because the argument makes several unwarranted assumptions it fails to make a convincing case that poor state of economy has made citizens less physically fit.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'however', 'if', 'regarding', 'so', 'therefore', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.28818443804 0.25644967241 112% => OK
Verbs: 0.161383285303 0.15541462614 104% => OK
Adjectives: 0.118155619597 0.0836205057962 141% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0806916426513 0.0520304965353 155% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0201729106628 0.0272364105082 74% => OK
Prepositions: 0.115273775216 0.125424944231 92% => OK
Participles: 0.0489913544669 0.0416121511921 118% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.88087386149 2.79052419416 103% => OK
Infinitives: 0.00864553314121 0.026700313972 32% => Some infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0749279538905 0.113004496875 66% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00864553314121 0.0255425247493 34% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00864553314121 0.0127820249294 68% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2123.0 2731.13054187 78% => OK
No of words: 321.0 446.07635468 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.61370716511 6.12365571057 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.57801047555 92% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.426791277259 0.378187486979 113% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.361370716511 0.287650121315 126% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.289719626168 0.208842608468 139% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.127725856698 0.135150697306 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88087386149 2.79052419416 103% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 207.018472906 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.457943925234 0.469332199767 98% => OK
Word variations: 45.4740792677 52.1807786196 87% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 20.039408867 75% => OK
Sentence length: 21.4 23.2022227129 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.4172381772 57.7814097925 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.533333333 141.986410481 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4 23.2022227129 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.466666666667 0.724660767414 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 3.58251231527 223% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 57.5370716511 51.9672348444 111% => OK
Elegance: 1.72527472527 1.8405768891 94% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.317668635121 0.441005458295 72% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.11878198916 0.135418324435 88% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0598047006844 0.0829849096947 72% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.615925710132 0.58762219726 105% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.158120724826 0.147661913831 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.1478766433 0.193483328276 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0657942524572 0.0970749176394 68% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.364397313694 0.42659136922 85% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.111159759827 0.0774707102158 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.205159808347 0.312017818177 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0624790517363 0.0698173142475 89% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.33743842365 36% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.87684729064 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.82512315271 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 6.46551724138 46% => OK
Negative topic words: 10.0 5.36822660099 186% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 14.657635468 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.