Many lives might be saved if inoculations against cow flu were routinely administered to all people in areas where the disease is detected. However, since there is a small possibility that a person will die as a result of the inoculations, we cannot permit inoculations against cow flu to be routinely administered.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
In the prompt, it is said that vaccination against cow flu cannot be administered regularly since there is a small chance of death. The author came to this conclusion based on the assumption that casulaties as result of the administering the vaccination will be equal to the casualties from the cow flu. While this decision might be effective, two questions must be answered before evaluating the validity of the decision.
First of all, the author needs to provide evidence that the deaths caused by the cow flu is not more severe than the deaths caused by the vaccination. There might be a chance that if a person is affected by the cow flu, there is a 99% chance that it will result in death. While, if the cow flu vaccination is administered regularly, there will be 1% chance that people will from the vaccination. The percent of deaths can be prevented by a huge amount if the inoculations are administered regularly. If these scenario is true, then the decision provided by the author is severely weakened.
Secondly, were the general people informed of this decision and were their opinions factored in before the decision was taken? The author is assuming that since their is a risk of death from the vaccination , it will be harmful permit regular vaccination. It might be possible that people are so afraid of the consequences of the cow flu that they are ready to take the risk of death from vaccination rather than be unvaccinated. It might be possible that, the cow flu results in life long paralysis and people rather than living a paralysed life wants the vaccination that comes with a risk. If the author did not take the general population's opinion before reaching to a decision then there might be serious repurcussions to his decision.
Lastly, were the deaths caused by the vaccines properly speculated? There might be other factors that is causing the death after the inoculations. There is a chance that if a person takes cautionary steps and maintain a strict diet for a few days after the inoculation, there might be no risk. Perhaps exposure to a cold weather within few days after the inoculation is what caused the death rather than just the inoculation. If the author can provide more evidence that the small possibility of death is only due to the inoculations and not due to reactionary consequence of getting exposed to another factor, then his decision can be justified.
In conlusion, the argument provided by the author is flawed as it is due to its dependence on some unwarranted assumptions. If the author can provide sufficient evidence against the questions stated above and give answers in support to his argument, only then it will be possible to properly evaluate the argument. Otherwise the author's argument is significantly weakened.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 9 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 472 350
No. of Characters: 2265 1500
No. of Different Words: 180 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.661 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.799 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.781 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 160 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 112 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 90 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.476 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.372 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.619 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.339 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.339 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.114 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 504, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this scenario' or 'these scenarios'?
Suggestion: this scenario; these scenarios
...ulations are administered regularly. If these scenario is true, then the decision provided by ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 162, Rule ID: THEIR_IS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'there'?
Suggestion: there
...aken? The author is assuming that since their is a risk of death from the vaccination...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 207, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... is a risk of death from the vaccination , it will be harmful permit regular vacci...
^^
Line 3, column 594, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...the vaccination that comes with a risk. If the author did not take the general pop...
^^
Line 3, column 633, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'populations'' or 'population's'?
Suggestion: populations'; population's
... If the author did not take the general populations opinion before reaching to a decision ...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 682, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ns opinion before reaching to a decision then there might be serious repurcussion...
^^
Line 5, column 316, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Otherwise,
...ible to properly evaluate the argument. Otherwise the authors argument is significantly w...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 330, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ly evaluate the argument. Otherwise the authors argument is significantly weakened.
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, then, while, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 40.0 19.6327345309 204% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2311.0 2260.96107784 102% => OK
No of words: 472.0 441.139720559 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89618644068 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6610686524 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8564456915 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.404661016949 0.468620217663 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 742.5 705.55239521 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.02537113 57.8364921388 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.047619048 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4761904762 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.14285714286 5.70786347227 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 16.0 6.88822355289 232% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.277544009065 0.218282227539 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0955990424139 0.0743258471296 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0685274585188 0.0701772020484 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166150753031 0.128457276422 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0702239753395 0.0628817314937 112% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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