The argument provides a series of unwarranted assumptions that people who sleep less than 6 hours are more successful. If these assumptions do not hold true, the argument will be invalid.
Firstly, the argument assumes that the study is reliable. The argument does not provide any statistical data about the study or how it was conducted. Was the sample randomly selected or based on volunteer? Without knowing the data points, one can assume that the data set could contain a CEO and 1 other executive that sleeps for 5 hours, in which the CEO makes the company millions while the other executive only makes 100 and the other 298 executives all sleep for more than 6 hours and only make the company thousands. This would heavily skew the averages in favor of hiring someone who sleeps less than 6 hours. Therefore if this assumption holds true, businesses would not necessarily be benefitting from hiring an executive who sleeps less than 6 hours.
Furthermore, the argument assumes without justification that what holds true for Mentain will work for another business. If Mentain is a company that focuses on stock trading and sitting in front of the computer all day while another company primarily focuses on pitching their new products to other companies, a sleep deprived executive would not necessarily be able to sell the product as effectively, thus hurting the company’s profits. Without additional information about Mentain and their line of work, we cannot say what works for Mentain will work for another company.
Lastly, the argument assumes that people who need less than 6 hours of sleep will be more successful. The key word here is “need”. A person who “needs” less than 6 hours of sleep doesn’t necessarily mean that they won’t sleep more that.
Because the argument makes several unwarranted claims, it fails to make a convincing case that people who sleep less than 6 hours are more successful.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 323 350
No. of Characters: 1563 1500
No. of Different Words: 157 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.239 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.839 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.518 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 100 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 84 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 50 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.533 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.16 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.467 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.375 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.604 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.134 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 617, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...g someone who sleeps less than 6 hours. Therefore if this assumption holds true, business...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, furthermore, if, lastly, so, therefore, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 55.5748502994 36% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1645.0 2260.96107784 73% => OK
No of words: 321.0 441.139720559 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1246105919 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84407467985 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.492211838006 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 495.9 705.55239521 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 81.3722857544 57.8364921388 141% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.666666667 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.46666666667 5.70786347227 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.152233834729 0.218282227539 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0533782660678 0.0743258471296 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0429947521762 0.0701772020484 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0843777844374 0.128457276422 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0412091830932 0.0628817314937 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.78 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 98.500998004 64% => 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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