The following appeared in a memo from the president of Bower Builders, a company that constructs new homes.
"A nationwide survey reveals that the two most-desired home features are a large family room and a large, well-appointed kitchen. A number of homes in our area built by our competitor Domus Construction have such features and have sold much faster and at significantly higher prices than the national average. To boost sales and profits, we should increase the size of the family rooms and kitchens in all the homes we build and should make state-of-the-art kitchens a standard feature. Moreover, our larger family rooms and kitchens can come at the expense of the dining room, since many of our recent buyers say they do not need a separate dining room for family meals."
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 statement by the President of Bower Builders relies heavily on the result of the nationwide survey and on a superficial understanding of the sales of Domus Construction. On careful observation, one can notice a number of assumptions being made that have led the President to his conclusion.
The customer base of Domus Construction has not been taken into consideration. It has simply been observed that the houses being sold at higher and quicker rates have large family rooms and kitchens. Based on this fact, a conclusion has been drawn. This could be a mere coincidence. They should firstly analyze the details of the customers, their disposable incomes, size of the family, and other such relevant features. Maybe Domus only targets a certain class of people.
They have not considered that the survey dataset could be skewed- the respondents could mostly be people who have enough money to spend on state-of-the-art kitchens and lavish family rooms. That would consist of the wealthy and the upper middle class. Or they could simply be smaller families with lesser expenses per head. Majority of the population does not fall into this category, and many families can only afford to spend enough to have a roof over their heads, and aren’t particularly concerned with the size of their rooms. And again, this might not be the target customer base for Domus.
There is also the assumption that their profits will increase if they also increase the size of the family rooms and kitchens in all their homes. In doing so, they would definitely not be catering to all kinds of families and their preferences, and could hence, lose out on those sales. It could also be that their designs are inherently inferior to those of Domus Constructions, and the size of the rooms isn’t the issue, causing Domus to overshadow Bower Builders in their area.
Given the implications of the assumptions being made in this memo from the President, the company should do a thorough market analysis and customer satisfaction survey before finalizing on its plan of action.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, if, may, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1723.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 344.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00872093023 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30665032142 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72100321657 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.526162790698 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 528.3 705.55239521 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 7.0 1.67365269461 418% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.6463803135 57.8364921388 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.352941176 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2352941176 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.35294117647 5.70786347227 41% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.115931467983 0.218282227539 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0363152808523 0.0743258471296 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0376011675667 0.0701772020484 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0725638687843 0.128457276422 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0263358947918 0.0628817314937 42% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, if, may, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1723.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 344.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00872093023 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30665032142 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72100321657 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.526162790698 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 528.3 705.55239521 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 7.0 1.67365269461 418% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.6463803135 57.8364921388 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.352941176 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2352941176 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.35294117647 5.70786347227 41% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.115931467983 0.218282227539 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0363152808523 0.0743258471296 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0376011675667 0.0701772020484 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0725638687843 0.128457276422 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0263358947918 0.0628817314937 42% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.