The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a Batavia newspaper.
"The department of agriculture in Batavia reports that the number of dairy farms throughout the country is now 25 percent greater than it was 10 years ago. During this same time period, however, the price of milk at the local Excello Food Market has increased from $1.50 to over $3.00 per gallon. To prevent farmers from continuing to receive excessive profits on an apparently increased supply of milk, the Batavia government should begin to regulate retail milk prices. Such regulation is necessary to ensure fair prices for consumers."
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 author of this letter presents a recommendation that the Batavian government must regulate retail prices of milk to ensure fair prices to the consumers. Although, inflated prices of essential commodities is a worry for any citizen and must be looked into by the State, this recommendation is based on a lot of assumptions that need to be evaluated before the recommendation is effective.
Firstly, the author assumes that if the number of dairy farms have increased over the years, the price of milk should decrease. To support this claim the author produces figures from the agricultural department which states that there has been a 25% increase in the number of farms over 10 years and incraesed price in local Excello Food Market. The author bases his/ her assumption only on prices from one retail shop. The author should have instead asked if the prices have risen across all the shops in the country and across all brands of milk. Also, it could be that the government outlets sell milk at cheaper prices than that of local markets.
The other question related to the price rise that needs to be evaluated is when did price occur? What was the timeline? Is it over 10 years or is the price rise a recent occurence. Moreover, the rise in prices could also be due to a number of reasons like inflation, increased cost of production, newer and costly technology, increased maintenance and logistics cost. The author fails to account for these factors.
The author also assumes that increased prices always translate to increased profit. However, there is no evidence to support this claim. The author should have asked what proportion of the retail prices contribute to the profits of the manufacturers. The author also assumes that the profits actually reach the farmer. A lot of manufacturers are the middle which actually make the profit rather than farmers.
Thus, ridden with logical flaws and unwarranted assumptions, the recommendation may not have the desired result.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 331 350
No. of Characters: 1617 1500
No. of Different Words: 165 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.265 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.885 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.621 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 119 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 73 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 49 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.389 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.268 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.329 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.552 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.083 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 130, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => 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: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1665.0 2260.96107784 74% => OK
No of words: 331.0 441.139720559 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03021148036 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26537283232 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70497540834 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.504531722054 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 513.0 705.55239521 73% => 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: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 56.5591845594 57.8364921388 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.5 119.503703932 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3888888889 23.324526521 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.38888888889 5.70786347227 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => 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: 0.0846745169522 0.218282227539 39% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0314439481225 0.0743258471296 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0412566400483 0.0701772020484 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0421429502822 0.128457276422 33% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.03698305844 0.0628817314937 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 14.3799401198 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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