A recently issued twenty-year study on headaches suffered by the residents of Mentia investigated the possible therapeutic effect of consuming salicylates. Salicylates are members of the same chemical family as aspirin, a medicine used to treat headaches. Although many foods are naturally rich in salicylates, food-processing companies also add salicylates to foods as preservatives. The twenty year study found a correlation between the rise in the commercial use of salicylates and a steady decline in the average number of headaches reported by study participants. At the time when the study concluded, food-processing companies had just discovered that salicylates can also be used as flavor additives for foods, and, as a result, many companies plan to do so. Based on these study results, some health experts predict that residents of Mentia will suffer even fewer headaches in the future.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction 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 prediction.
In a study on headache suffered by residents of mentia, it was concluded that the use of salicylate as additive will be instrumental in decline of headache suffered. However, before this conclusion can be accepted the following assumptions needs to be evaluated.
The Author assumed that the effectiveness of salicylate is the same as Asiprin since they belong to the same family. However, it is possible that salicylate only has mild effect on curing headache and it is not as effective as Aspirin. Also, the efficacy of salicylate needs to undergo a lot of biochemical analysis for its efficacy to be ascertained and not just on crude assumption that its basically similar to Asiprin.
Further, it is assumed that the citizens that partook in the survey only took the food processed with salicylate. It is possible that these residents are using medications and the decline in the headache cannot be solely attributed to presence of salicylate in the food they consumed. More so, it is important to understand what the study entails. Perhaps it only focused on the residents reduced on headache and not the food they consumed, if that is the case, then it is likely that most of the respondent that took part in the survey doesn’t consume food that contains salicylate at all and reduction in headache is basically due to other factors like healthy living or use of medication.
In conclusion, it is assumed that the residents will automatically switch to new product that include the use of salicylate as flavor additives. Perhaps, the residents are used to a certain local brand which is well suited for their purpose. Also, it is possible that this new product might not be to the taste of the resident, hence resulting in low purchase and not having any major health influence.
Hence, the conclusion can be accepted and requires further evaluation due to its numerous flawed assumptions which is unwarranted and requires further reevaluation.
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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: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 326 350
No. of Characters: 1594 1500
No. of Different Words: 155 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.249 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.89 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.8 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 119 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 100 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.077 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.105 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.692 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.365 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.636 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.048 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, so, then, well, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1635.0 2260.96107784 72% => OK
No of words: 325.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03076923077 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88336752497 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.483076923077 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 540.9 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.4400784442 57.8364921388 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.769230769 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.61538461538 5.70786347227 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => 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: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.282773007925 0.218282227539 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105687793253 0.0743258471296 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104641394857 0.0701772020484 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1425196336 0.128457276422 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0824528224682 0.0628817314937 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.3799401198 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.3550499002 78% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 12.3882235529 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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