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.
The argument is extracted from a recent study of comparison of pet owners and owners who own no pets in terms of age and health. The author suggests that Sherwood Hospital should form a partnership with Sherwood Animal Shelter to institute an adopt-a-dog program. He mentions that average life and health of owners who own pets is high and dog owners tend to have a lower incidence of heart disease. Although the given evidences from a study is true, author is too quick to assume that dog adoption is major panacea of heart disease; he failed to analyze the specific details about the possibility of adoption to all the people. Due to the incomplete analysis and unwarranted assumption the suggestion made by author is dubitable.
To begin with, author assumes that adopting dog to every house is possible. The assumption, however, is groundless because he failed to study about the possibility of adoption of dog to all household. Due to this incomplete study about adoption of dog to all household the evidence came from the analysis is incomplete hence the conclusion is invalid. They need to study further about the possibility of adoption of dog to all the household before implementing the suggestion. Perhaps, Sherwood animal shelter cannot dogs to all the household so author should analyze this carefully. If without careful study, they implemented the suggestion expected result may not possible and the conclusion will be invalid.
In addition, author assumes that all the people love the dog as a pet to adopt in their home. This assumption is unwarranted because they failed to analyze the choice of people before suggesting dog adoption program. They should survey about the people’s interests about the adoption of dog before making suggestion to form suggestion between health institute and animal shelter. People may not like the dog to adopt as a pet, they may like cat or rat. So without careful and complete study they should not suggest about the partnership. If such study is not done, the conclusion will be invalid and its implementation will be failed.
Moreover, the author assumes that adoption of dog will surely reduce the heart disease based on some study. This assumption is baseless because they have not studied in large number. Many people including children and older people fear with the dog and its barking; which may led to increase the heart disease. So the author must study about the effect of adoption of dog in large number before making the suggestion else the implications of the suggestion may not be efficacious.
In summation, the stated/unstated assumptions mentioned above tells that the given argument is dubitable and its conclusion will be invalid because of incomplete study.
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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: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 7 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 452 350
No. of Characters: 2240 1500
No. of Different Words: 176 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.611 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.956 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.633 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 173 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 123 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 86 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.545 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.17 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.545 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.356 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.536 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.109 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 253, Rule ID: IT_IS[7]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, if, may, moreover, so, in addition, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 71.0 55.5748502994 128% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 16.3942115768 165% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2288.0 2260.96107784 101% => OK
No of words: 451.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07317073171 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60833598836 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74723285533 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 204.123752495 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.405764966741 0.468620217663 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 730.8 705.55239521 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => 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: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.5432213248 57.8364921388 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.0 119.503703932 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.95454545455 5.70786347227 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
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 : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => 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: 0.232757931313 0.218282227539 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0835377384863 0.0743258471296 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0936763673421 0.0701772020484 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138430668305 0.128457276422 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.127674030691 0.0628817314937 203% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.3799401198 88% => 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: 12.13 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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