In this argument, the author concludes that the change from butter to margarine has had little impact on customers based on the low complaint rate and the report from servers. However, there are some alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation, challenging the convince of the argument.
First, it is possible that the actual rate of unsatisfaction is far more than 2 percent. The 2 percent of complaint rate does not mean that the residual 98 percent of customers are satisfied with margarine, who may be not willing to take the action to make complaints due to introvert personality or choose not to patronize the restaurants any more as their responses. Without ruling out these possibilities, the argument is questionable.
Second, it is highly possible that the sample size of 100 is big enough to represent the whole customers. The result of low rate of complaints may be special case within the 100 samples and cannot apply equally to the whole picture, which means the rate of complaints may be very high outside the samples. Therefore, the conclusion is problematic without taking this possibility into consideration.
Third, the report from servers may be susceptible. It is possible that the goals of servers and restaurants are not congruent, thus servers do not have the motivation to report fairly even if the customers are highly fastidious with the use of margarine. For example, the salary of servers is fixed and not related to the economic performance of restaurants, in which reporting high rate of complaints just add their workloads without any additional benefits in the salary. Without confirming the accuracy of the report form servers, the argument is not reliable.
To sum up, the author should consider more about the alternative explanations that could account for the facts presented, thus making the argument more solid.
- The following memorandum is from the business manager of Happy Pancake House restaurants Butter has now been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States Only about 2 percent of customers have complain 38
- Society should make efforts to save endangered species only if the potential extinction of those species is the result of human activities Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take 50
- Some people want government to spend money on searching for life on other planets However others think it is a waste of public money when the earth has so many problems Discuss these two views and give your own opinion 73
- Some people want government to spend money on searching for life on other planets However others think it is a waste of public money when the earth has so many problems Discuss these two views and give your own opinion 73
- Some people want government to spend money on searching for life on other planets However others think it is a waste of public money when the earth has so many problems Discuss these two views and give your own opinion 73
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 304 350
No. of Characters: 1538 1500
No. of Different Words: 157 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.176 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.059 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.824 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 115 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 87 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 63 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.385 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.991 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.769 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.355 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.62 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.054 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 281, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...l the proposed explanation, challenging the convince of the argument. First, it is possib...
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Line 3, column 350, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[1]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...t to patronize the restaurants any more as their responses. Without ruling out the...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, third, thus, for example, to sum up
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 : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1583.0 2260.96107784 70% => OK
No of words: 304.0 441.139720559 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20723684211 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9411629193 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.532894736842 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 487.8 705.55239521 69% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.8184700971 57.8364921388 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.769230769 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3846153846 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.76923076923 5.70786347227 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0755300559866 0.218282227539 35% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0264300431958 0.0743258471296 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.035701279532 0.0701772020484 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0437722773863 0.128457276422 34% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0303996225554 0.0628817314937 48% => 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: 14.8 14.3799401198 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 98.500998004 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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