The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Balmer Island Gazette.
"The population on Balmer Island increases to 100,000 during the summer months. To reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balmer Island plans to limit the number of mopeds rented by each of the island's six moped rental companies from 50 per day to 30 per day during the summer season. Last year, the neighboring island of Torseau enforced similar limits on moped rentals and saw a 50 percent reduction in moped accidents. We predict that putting these limits into effect on Balmer Island will result in the same reduction in moped accidents."
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
Many tourists visit Balmer island during the summer months for their vacations and enjoyment. They hire mopeds from the rental companies and the increase in the moped rental system has resulted in increase in road accidents. Its obvious to decrease the incidents of road accident with less number of mopeds in the road.
The limitation of renting mopeds might have increase the rents of the mopeds. This might have resulted in less number of moped being rented in Torseau. For instance, the normal tourists visit any area with certain budget and they don't want to spend more than this amount and thus will decide not to rent the mopeds. With very less number of vehicles on the road will ultimately result in decrease of number of road accidents.
May be the decrease in road accidents in Torseau was not only due to the limitation of renting mopeds. This could be due to the upliftment of the road condition as well. For instance, the road accidents in a gravel road is more than the road accidents in a black topped plain road. The road condition of Balmer island is even worse than Torseau so even limiting the number of mopeds cannot reduce the road accidents.
The decrease in the road accidents may also be due to the awareness programmes launched regarding road accidents and traffic rules. For example, the road accidents are lesser when the drivers are more educated about the traffic rules. The resident of Balmer island might be uneducated about the traffic rules and thus decrease in the road accident will not be possible without the awareness of the pedestrians and drivers of Torseau islands.
The road accidents could be due to other vehicles in the road like buses, cars etc. So, even the reduction of number of mopeds cannot reduce the accidents caused due to other vehicles. Also, the road accidents could be due to mopeds of the permanent resident of Balmer Island and thus only reduction in renting will not decrease the road accident.
What is more strange about the given fact is that we are not sure about the datas recorded and published which won't surely confirm the reduction of the accidents in true sense. For example, the number of accidents might be less due to wrong recording of data which might not be true for Balmer island.
In conclusion, argument given does not completely confirms the true reason of accidents and cannot be accepted without the complete analysis of the reasons of road accidents.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 421 350
No. of Characters: 1987 1500
No. of Different Words: 158 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.53 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.72 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.312 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 144 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 95 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 40 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.158 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.907 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.684 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.42 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.672 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.168 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 7 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 231, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...t any area with certain budget and they dont want to spend more than this amount and...
^^^^
Line 9, column 5, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (May) must be used with a third-person verb: 'is'.
Suggestion: is
...e of number of road accidents. May be the decrease in road accidents in Torse...
^^
Line 25, column 51, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'confirm'
Suggestion: confirm
...ion, argument given does not completely confirms the true reason of accidents and cannot...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, may, regarding, so, thus, well, for example, for instance, in conclusion, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 28.8173652695 31% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2047.0 2260.96107784 91% => OK
No of words: 419.0 441.139720559 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88544152745 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52432199235 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.37084514328 2.78398813304 85% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.377088305489 0.468620217663 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 621.9 705.55239521 88% => 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: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.740561734 57.8364921388 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.35 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.95 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.8 5.70786347227 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
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: 0.158185871629 0.218282227539 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0689588357208 0.0743258471296 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0535740728459 0.0701772020484 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0983720244321 0.128457276422 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0535745113477 0.0628817314937 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.3799401198 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.38 8.32208582834 89% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 98.500998004 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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