"Nosinia is an herb that many users report to be as effective as prescription medications at fighting allergy symptoms. Researchers recently compared Nosinia to a placebo in 95 men and women with seasonal allergies to ragweed pollen. Participants in the study reported that neither Nosinia nor the placebo offered significant relief. However, for the most severe allergy symptoms, the researchers reported that Nosinia was more effective than the placebo in providing relief. Furthermore, at the end of the study, participants given Nosinia were more likely than participants given a placebo to report feeling healthier. We, therefore, recommend using Nosinia to help with your severe allergy symptoms."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The author concludes that ‘Nosinia’, which is a herb, is better than any ‘placebo’ for curing seasonal allergies to ragweed pollen. He arrives at this judgment through a study conducted on 95 men and women who have been infected with the said seasonal allergy. One section of the population was given ‘nosinia’ while the other was put up with placebos. In the initial days of the treatment, none of the medications gave relief to the patients while later the ones infected with a severe form of this allergy found nosinia to be a soothing herb. Also, the patients who were administered Nosinia felt healthier than those who opted for placebos. Hence, the above derivation is achieved.
The author justifies his conclusion using a study that only dictates the strength of the population. There is no evidence regarding the age or general health of these people. Also, the author doesn’t state the stage of the disease at which the medication was provided to the patients. Such a plea that is incomplete cannot be a determinant of whether a medicine is recommendable or not. A patient’s medical history is a vital criterion to reach this conclusion. Before claiming the benefits of a drug, it is necessary to put forward the medical history of the people on whom the drug was tested; otherwise, it may not prove equally beneficial to every other person.
The next statement tells the readers that patients with severe allergy experienced relief after using Nosinia. Here the question that arises is whether there is any data regarding the number of patients suffering from a severe form of the allergy. There could have been only one person who was offered Nosinia, and he showed a slight sign of recovery. Such conditions cannot be regarded as a parameter to uphold the usage of the prescribed Nosinia. In such a scenario where precise detail is not given it, the derivation becomes debatable. Also, it is arguable as to how the severity of allergy was measured. There should have been a scale, and the author should have clearly stated the symptoms that proved the high intensity of the allergy. Only then can the people reading the excerpt relate to it and find the piece useful, otherwise, it becomes an article full of flaws.
The third argument given by the author states that people who took Nosinia felt healthier than those who took placebos. In a state where no medical past of the patient has been revealed or examined, the term healthy seems to be used vaguely. For example, all the people must have been primarily healthy with only a slight symptom of allergy by ragweed. In that case, the medicine prescribed to them gave relief, and they went back to their original state of health. However, the results may not be the same as people who had a severe form of allergy or some other ongoing medical issues.
The conclusion seemed to have been taken in a hurry as there are no reliable statements to prove its credibility. None with a degree of logical thinking go for any of the recommendations provided by the author. When making statements regarding a drug used to cure allergies that occur in both minor and severe forms, one must provide complete data regarding the research so that it helps those who are suffering from it or accumulating information regarding general illness and their respective treatments.
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-29 | raghavchauhan619 | 75 | view |
| 2022-09-29 | Yashika_B | 66 | view |
| 2021-10-14 | nira07 | 58 | view |
| 2021-09-19 | Tej | 55 | view |
| 2020-11-15 | idris oriyomi | 70 | view |
- 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 50
- Nosinia is an herb that many users report to be as effective as prescription medications at fighting allergy symptoms Researchers recently compared Nosinia to a placebo in 95 men and women with seasonal allergies to ragweed pollen Participants in the stud 66
- People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the pos 50
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, however, if, may, regarding, so, then, third, while, as to, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.6327345309 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 24.0 13.6137724551 176% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 71.0 55.5748502994 128% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2786.0 2260.96107784 123% => OK
No of words: 568.0 441.139720559 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90492957746 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.88187981987 4.56307096286 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67005210407 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 270.0 204.123752495 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475352112676 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 897.3 705.55239521 127% => 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: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 19.7664670659 142% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.7961820351 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.5 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2857142857 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.70786347227 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.218049834221 0.218282227539 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.056486207917 0.0743258471296 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0610256641967 0.0701772020484 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122594468746 0.128457276422 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0840191109781 0.0628817314937 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.3799401198 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 135.0 98.500998004 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
---------------------
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, hence, however, if, may, regarding, so, then, third, while, as to, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.6327345309 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 24.0 13.6137724551 176% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 71.0 55.5748502994 128% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2786.0 2260.96107784 123% => OK
No of words: 568.0 441.139720559 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90492957746 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.88187981987 4.56307096286 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67005210407 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 270.0 204.123752495 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475352112676 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 897.3 705.55239521 127% => 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: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 19.7664670659 142% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.7961820351 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.5 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2857142857 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.70786347227 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.218049834221 0.218282227539 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.056486207917 0.0743258471296 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0610256641967 0.0701772020484 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122594468746 0.128457276422 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0840191109781 0.0628817314937 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.3799401198 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 135.0 98.500998004 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
---------------------
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.