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 homeowner claims that adams realty is more dominant than fitch realty. He goes on to explain that adams realty has more agents and its home sales averaged better than fitch realty. However, there is no clear evidence that supports the assertion of the author.
A perfect analysis cannot be obtained solely based on the given facts and figures. For instance, it is mentioned that real estate agents of fitch realty work part time. However, there is no concise statement saying that real estate agents of adams do not. Additionally, the fact that most of the agents of fitch work part time does not mean that they might be bad at their job. Hence, the homeowner’s judgement does not hold on proper grounds.
Averages are calculated by adding all the variables and dividing that sum with the total number of variables. The lower average of fitch could mean that fitch realty sold less houses at a higher price. that would be a point in favour of fitch realty. Similarly, the higher average of adams could also mean that adams realty sold more houses but at a significantly lower rates.
The prime component of real estate is ‘Location’. In the arguments of the author, the locality of operation is not mentioned for either of the firms. one could make a compelling case for fitch operating at relatively high end locations. Superfluously, there is no mention of the type of houses sold either. Villas tend to be more expensive than flats.
Another important component of real estate is ‘time’. Ten years ago, the world was still recovering from the largest housing market crash in history. Naturally, it meant that houses weren’t in much demand. Therefore it could be argued that despite of the housing bubble crash, Finch managed to sell a house in just over four months. however, since then the real estate market has seen a considerable growth and the fact that adams realty still took a month to sell a house does not speak well about the strategy or performance of their agents.
To summarize, the facts and figures suggested by the author remain true. however, the assumptions made by the writer on the basis of these facts and figures are preposterous. numbers and figures have their own story. one cannot expect to procure full understanding of anything by simply looking at figures. A closer scrutiny is essential and sometimes, even mandatory.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 404 350
No. of Characters: 1903 1500
No. of Different Words: 208 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.483 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.71 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.378 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 130 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 77 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 51 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.238 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.441 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.381 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.286 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.548 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.079 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 159, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: part-time
...real estate agents of fitch realty work part time. However, there is no concise statement...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 318, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: part-time
...t that most of the agents of fitch work part time does not mean that they might be bad at...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 172, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun houses is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...fitch could mean that fitch realty sold less houses at a higher price. that would be...
^^^^
Line 5, column 203, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: That
...lty sold less houses at a higher price. that would be a point in favour of fitch rea...
^^^^
Line 7, column 161, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: One
... not mentioned for either of the firms. one could make a compelling case for fitch ...
^^^
Line 9, column 222, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...hat houses weren't in much demand. Therefore it could be argued that despite of the ...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 349, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
... sell a house in just over four months. however, since then the real estate market has ...
^^^^^^^
Line 11, column 74, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
...es suggested by the author remain true. however, the assumptions made by the writer on ...
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Line 11, column 176, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Numbers
...ese facts and figures are preposterous. numbers and figures have their own story. one c...
^^^^^^^
Line 11, column 218, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: One
...mbers and figures have their own story. one cannot expect to procure full understan...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, look, similarly, so, still, then, therefore, well, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2004.0 2260.96107784 89% => OK
No of words: 403.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97270471464 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48049772903 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72671634966 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.526054590571 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 620.1 705.55239521 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: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 22.8473053892 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.3396701796 57.8364921388 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 74.2222222222 119.503703932 62% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.9259259259 23.324526521 64% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.48148148148 5.70786347227 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.264957117257 0.218282227539 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0672754446235 0.0743258471296 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0855968984492 0.0701772020484 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135236833954 0.128457276422 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0819401738779 0.0628817314937 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.4 14.3799401198 65% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.73 48.3550499002 136% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 12.197005988 62% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.95 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 98.500998004 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 11.1389221557 68% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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.