A pet food company recalled 4 million pounds of pet food in response to complaints that pets that had consumed the food experienced vomiting, lethargy, and other signs of illness. After the recall, the pet food company tested samples from the recalled food and determined that all chemicals found in the food were chemicals that are approved for use in pet food. Thus, the recalled food was not responsible for these symptoms, and the company should not devote further resources to the investigation.
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 if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The argument claims that the company should not devote further resources to the investigation on the recalled food. This is based on the premise that the samples of the recalled food where tested and no evidence was found. At first the argument may sound logical and true, bit it is based on several flawed assumption which are not validated for its correctness.
Firstly, the argument says that the pet that had consumed food showed vomiting,lethargy and other signs of illness. From when are these symptoms happening to the pet? It could be possible that other than food the pet could have eaten something else which could have cause these. It could be possible that because of overeating of that food caused these symptoms If they could have mentioned properly about how long is these happening. By telling details about the time of these illness occurring and amount of the food that dog ate could strengthn the argument.
Secondly, The argument states that pet food company recalled all the 4 million pounds of pet food. How are they sure its the same food they have given?. 4 million pounds of food they have recalled are they the same one they have distributed. Answering these question would make the argument valid.
Lastly, The food was tested and all chemicals that were in the food are approved for the use of food. They argument fails to mention about the name of the company?, What are the chemicals found in that food test samples?. If they would have specified the name of the company and also about the chemicals then it could provide transperancy to the people who are using that pet food.
In conclusion, As now the argument is full of flawed assumptions by not giving proper detail about the - time from when the symptoms started occuring in the pets, sureity about the food that was recalled , the name of the chemical company in which the pet food samples where tested and what are the chemicals present in the pet food so as to say that they are safe for pets.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 349 350
No. of Characters: 1601 1500
No. of Different Words: 150 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.322 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.587 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.214 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 94 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 75 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 50 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 22 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.812 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.375 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.438 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.402 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.633 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.178 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 79, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , lethargy
...t that had consumed food showed vomiting,lethargy and other signs of illness. From when a...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 473, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this illness' or 'these illnesses'?
Suggestion: this illness; these illnesses
...g. By telling details about the time of these illness occurring and amount of the food that d...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 563, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t dog ate could strengthn the argument. Secondly, The argument states that pet f...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 118, Rule ID: IT_IS[17]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...n pounds of pet food. How are they sure its the same food they have given?. 4 milli...
^^^
Line 7, column 231, Rule ID: IF_WOULD_HAVE_VBN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'had specified'?
Suggestion: had specified
...und in that food test samples?. If they would have specified the name of the company and also about ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 204, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...sureity about the food that was recalled , the name of the chemical company in whi...
^^
Line 9, column 334, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...e the chemicals present in the pet food so as to say that they are safe for pets.
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, then, as to, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 13.6137724551 162% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1650.0 2260.96107784 73% => OK
No of words: 348.0 441.139720559 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.74137931034 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.37898966722 2.78398813304 85% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 204.123752495 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.436781609195 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 499.5 705.55239521 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 72.1755671956 57.8364921388 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.125 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.75 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.75 5.70786347227 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.481615206163 0.218282227539 221% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.197104765875 0.0743258471296 265% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.145054359762 0.0701772020484 207% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.301241726998 0.128457276422 235% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0562493672129 0.0628817314937 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.3799401198 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 48.3550499002 139% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.21 12.5979740519 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.17 8.32208582834 86% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 98.500998004 56% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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