The following appeared in a letter from a homeowner to a friend.
"Of the two leading real estate firms in our town — Adams Realty and Fitch Realty — Adams Realty is clearly superior. Adams has 40 real estate agents; in contrast, Fitch has 25, many of whom work only part-time. Moreover, Adams' revenue last year was twice as high as that of Fitch and included home sales that averaged $168,000, compared to Fitch's $144,000. Homes listed with Adams sell faster as well: ten years ago I listed my home with Fitch, and it took more than four months to sell; last year, when I sold another home, I listed it with Adams, and it took only one month. Thus, if you want to sell your home quickly and at a good price, you should use Adams Realty."
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 letter from a homeowner to a friend suggests that if he wants to sell his home quickly then Adam Realty is the best compared to Fitch reality. The homeowner makes this conclusion based on facts like, Adam Realty has more number of employees comparatively and that last year Adam Realty's revenue was twice has high as that of Fitch's. Also, 10 years back when the home owner had listed a house with Fitch, took four months to sell. Whereas last year with Adam, it took only a month to sell. The state if the conclusion made by the homeowner is cogent the following 3 assumptions need to be examined first.
Firstly, the homeowner states that Adam Realty has more employees than Fitch, cannot be used as a argument point. The homeowner here assumes that more number of employees means more superior than the other. There could be a possibility that the less number of employees of Fitch are all very skilled whereas in Adam's the employees are diverse i.e some proficient while some mediocre in their work. To illustrate this, consider a startup with less but very skilled employees versus a company with more number or employees but not that concentration of skilled workers. Here, the startup, though with less employees, still excels due to it's proficient employees.
Secondly, The writers states that last year Adam had twice the revenue Fitch has. The writer assumes that just like last year this year too Adam's realty will have more revenue compared to Fitch. It can so happen that last year was very favourable for Adam that he exceled but to thing this year to this will repeat is wrong. For instance, consider a company A doing better than a company B. Due to internal factors couldn't do well the next year. Internal factors could be things like not good working environment thus employee quiting, employees not satisfied with their raise or just too much toxic competition within etc. Therefore, Just by last year revenue conclusion cannot be drawn.
Lastly, the owner narrates his own experience with the 2 real estate firms. Owner assumes that just like ten years ago which took the Fitch Realty to sell his house in four months might now as well take similar longer time. There is a possibility that ten years a ago there were no such keen buyers like last year. Thus, enabling Adam Realty to sell it in one month due to more buying demand in the market. For example, selling a genz tshirt to two decades ago would have been an unprofitable business. But now in the genz time, there is a huge demand of these tshirts making this very profitable now.
Therefore, the conclusion if one wants to sell a house quicker should go with Adam Realty is flawed. More evidences are required to make a more pragmatic reasoning. Therefore, the above assumptions need to be addressed in depth to get a clear picture.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 98, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...employees than Fitch, cannot be used as a argument point. The homeowner here assu...
^
Line 2, column 178, Rule ID: SUPERIOR_THAN[2]
Message: The adjective more is normally used with to and does not need 'more' (so called implicit comparative). Probably you need to write: 'superior to'.
Suggestion: superior to
...mes that more number of employees means more superior than the other. There could be a possibility...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 600, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun employees is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...workers. Here, the startup, though with less employees, still excels due to its prof...
^^^^
Line 3, column 416, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
...an a company B. Due to internal factors couldnt do well the next year. Internal factors...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 263, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
.... There is a possibility that ten years a ago there were no such keen buyers like...
^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, still, then, therefore, thus, well, whereas, while, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2331.0 2260.96107784 103% => OK
No of words: 493.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72819472617 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71206996034 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38859811784 2.78398813304 86% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 204.123752495 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.476673427992 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 703.8 705.55239521 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 19.7664670659 132% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.4000120145 57.8364921388 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.6538461538 119.503703932 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9615384615 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.30769230769 5.70786347227 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232944270892 0.218282227539 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0707904314518 0.0743258471296 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0755630928411 0.0701772020484 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138614412173 0.128457276422 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0639681526753 0.0628817314937 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 14.3799401198 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 48.3550499002 145% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 12.197005988 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.15 12.5979740519 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.25 8.32208582834 87% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 98.500998004 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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Note: 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 98, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...employees than Fitch, cannot be used as a argument point. The homeowner here assu...
^
Line 2, column 178, Rule ID: SUPERIOR_THAN[2]
Message: The adjective more is normally used with to and does not need 'more' (so called implicit comparative). Probably you need to write: 'superior to'.
Suggestion: superior to
...mes that more number of employees means more superior than the other. There could be a possibility...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 600, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun employees is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...workers. Here, the startup, though with less employees, still excels due to its prof...
^^^^
Line 3, column 416, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
...an a company B. Due to internal factors couldnt do well the next year. Internal factors...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 263, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
.... There is a possibility that ten years a ago there were no such keen buyers like...
^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, still, then, therefore, thus, well, whereas, while, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2331.0 2260.96107784 103% => OK
No of words: 493.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72819472617 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71206996034 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38859811784 2.78398813304 86% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 204.123752495 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.476673427992 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 703.8 705.55239521 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 19.7664670659 132% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.4000120145 57.8364921388 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.6538461538 119.503703932 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9615384615 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.30769230769 5.70786347227 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232944270892 0.218282227539 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0707904314518 0.0743258471296 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0755630928411 0.0701772020484 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138614412173 0.128457276422 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0639681526753 0.0628817314937 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 14.3799401198 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 48.3550499002 145% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 12.197005988 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.15 12.5979740519 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.25 8.32208582834 87% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 98.500998004 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
---------------------
Note: 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.