An international development organization, in response to a vitamin A deficiency among people in the impoverished nation of Tagus, has engineered a new breed of millet high in vitamin A. While seeds for this new type of millet cost more, farmers will be paid subsidies for farming the new variety of millet. Since millet is already a staple food in Tagus, people will readily adopt the new variety. To combat vitamin A deficiency, the government of Tagus should do everything it can to promote this new type of millet.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered 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.
In the given argument, the government of Tagus has come to the conclusion that a new breed of millet must be promoted in all possible ways, to combat vitamin A deficiency among its citizens. They base this on the premise that a new millet rich in vitamin A has been engineered, and that farmers would be paid subsidies to farm the new variety. However, before the recommendation is evaluated, three questions must be answered.
First, apart from being high in vitamin A, does the new millet variety retain other nutritional benefits of the millet traditionally grown in Tagus? It may be possible that the new variety has lower amounts of fibre, vitamin E, or minerals, things that generally occur in millet. If the recommendation was to be accepted in this case, then the population may start to suffer from other deficiencies, like that of the aforementioned components. A complete and absolute move to the new millet variety may lead to such unfavourable conditions, and may exacerbate the nation’s impoverishment. Hence, evidence must be provided in this regard before drawing out a conclusion.
Second, although the farmers of the new millet variety will be paid subsidies, does this new variety achieve the same amount of yield per hectare? In other words, will farmers' fields yield the same amount of effective output when farming the new variety of millet? Perhaps, it may be the case that the new variety has a significantly lower yield. If the subsidies are commensurate to the size of the harvest, then farmers would earn lesser than before, and would suffer in poverty. To address this, the government should provide evidence that answers this question, to ensure the fair compensation of the nation's farmers.
Finally, are there no other existing ways for the people of Tagus to overcome the widespread vitamin A deficiency? This question can also be rephrased as follows: Has the government tried to find other possibly indigenous food crops or food items that could mitigate the deficiency? Milk is known to contain a plethora of vitamins, including vitamin A, and there is a possibility that milk is also being produced in Tagus, but is largely not consumed by the population in their usual diet. The government should consider existing ways to solve the issue, since if this kind of favourable food item is already being produced in the country but is not a staple, then the government could simply encourage the consumption of the item, instead of shelling out a portion of their budget to subsidise new millet breeds. This approach may even prove beneficial for the economy of Tagus. Hence, answering this question is quintessential to evaluating the recommendation put forth by the government.
In conclusion, the argument, as it stands in its current form, is considerably flawed due to various unwarranted assumptions and unanswered questions. Answering the questions above would greatly aid critical evaluation of the recommendation, and to do this, more evidence must be provided; the government could conduct a systematic study and survey of what foods the people of Tagus consume, and could ask the international development organization to release a comprehensive report of the qualities of the new variety of millet. Only then, could the proposal be viably evaluated.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 12 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 539 350
No. of Characters: 2692 1500
No. of Different Words: 247 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.818 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.994 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.872 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 192 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 153 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 105 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 67 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.478 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.818 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.314 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.518 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.066 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, may, second, so, then, apart from, as to, in conclusion, kind of, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.9520958084 185% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 55.5748502994 130% => OK
Nominalization: 28.0 16.3942115768 171% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2772.0 2260.96107784 123% => OK
No of words: 539.0 441.139720559 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14285714286 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81833721656 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96439656935 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 263.0 204.123752495 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487940630798 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 867.6 705.55239521 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 8.0 1.67365269461 478% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 11.0 4.22255489022 261% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.8880293648 57.8364921388 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.0 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5 23.324526521 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.77272727273 5.70786347227 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.383668922038 0.218282227539 176% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.114488118239 0.0743258471296 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0852477248923 0.0701772020484 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.226878665948 0.128457276422 177% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0610993956233 0.0628817314937 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.9 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 139.0 98.500998004 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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