A recent study reported that pet owners have longer, healthier lives on average than do people who own no pets. Specifically, dog owners tend to have a lower incidence of heart disease. In light of these findings, Sherwood Hospital should form a partnership with Sherwood Animal Shelter to institute an adopt-a-dog program. The program would encourage dog ownership for patients recovering from heart disease, which should reduce these patients' chance of experiencing continuing heart problems and also reduce their need for ongoing treatment. As a further benefit, the publicity about the program would encourage more people to adopt pets from the shelter. And that will reduce the incidence of heart disease in the general population.
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 for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
Due to the reporting that people adopting a dog have healthier lives than do people who own no dog, the author advocates the assumption that adopting a dog can reduce the chance of experiencing continuing heart problems. However, some factors make this assumption dubious.
To begin with, the author relies on recent study to assume that people who own pets have longer, healthier lives on average than do people who own no pets. However, the study does not mention the exactly place and number of people involved in this study. Specifically, the author might only invite ten people to finish his or her investigation while there are more than 500 people in the local area. Then, their feedback cannot represent the rest of people since they might be just a minority group.
Another dubious assumption is that a threshold problem involves the content of health. The arguer regards health as the same as lower incidence of heart disease. However, from many aspects, health and lower incidence of heart disease are totally different. First of all, lower incidence of disease did not indicate that owner have healthier lives, because heart disease was only one of diseases. Besides, maybe these owner had higher incident of other diseases, including pneumonia, lung cancer, and stomach cancer. In short, without ruling out those mentioned discrepancies, it is impossible to conclude health is equal to lower incident of heart disease.
Even if people who own dog have lower incident of heart disease, the editor’s recommendation depends on the assumption that no facts other than adopting a dog will cause reducing the chance of experiencing continuing heart problems. However, a myriad of other factors, including noise or parasites might impede the patients from reducing the chance of experiencing continuing heart problems. To be specific, patients must rest after recovering, but noise will impede patients from rest; And parasites from dog may cause other disease to patients, such as malaria. Therefore, these two factors will hinder patients from reducing the chance of experiencing continuing heart problems. Without ruling out these and other possible causes, the editor cannot justifiably conclude that only by adopting a dog can reduce the chance of experiencing continuing heart problems.
To sum up, author’s assumption that people adopting a dog will reduce the chance of experiencing continuing heart problems have to rule out some factors in order to provide a reasonable assumption. First, exactly place and number of people involved in this study. Second, Evidence that people adopting a dog have lower incidence of heart disease must be offered. Finally, the factors that will increase the chance of experiencing continuing heart problems must be considered.
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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: 12 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 441 350
No. of Characters: 2280 1500
No. of Different Words: 181 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.583 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.17 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.595 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 179 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 127 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 88 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.211 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.81 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.368 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.585 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.166 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, so, then, therefore, while, in short, such as, first of all, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2353.0 2260.96107784 104% => OK
No of words: 441.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33560090703 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58257569496 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69781048559 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.43537414966 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 726.3 705.55239521 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.9719249479 57.8364921388 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.047619048 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.71428571429 5.70786347227 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 6.88822355289 218% => 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: 0.315536605173 0.218282227539 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101291210187 0.0743258471296 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105095489218 0.0701772020484 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.192225834956 0.128457276422 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0518413617178 0.0628817314937 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.94 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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