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 the editorial from the local newspaper, it is stated that the increasing use of salicylates by commercial companies in food items could reduce the headache problem from which the resident of Meniata were suffering. The proponent of the author has come to this conclusion based on the fact that food companies are adding salicylic in their food items in commercial way; salicylate is the medicine used to treat headache. However, before this prediction to be properly evaluated following three questions must be addressed.
First of all, are increase use of salicylate in artificial food items and reduction in headache of dwellers of Menita comparable? In other word, is it appropriate to think that the single reason behind the reduction in headache is rise in use of salicylic in commercial food items? It is possible that there are many other factors as well that have major role in reducing the pain endured. The change in their eating-habit, mediation, and placated stress level could have alleviated the problem during that period; people in Menita could have started doing regular physical exercises such as jogging, yoga, or gym that could also have reduced their headache. Further, there is possibility that resident in Manita could have started eating natural foods rich in salicylate. If these, scenario have merit, the conclusion drawn in the original argument is significantly weakened.
Secondly, had all the patients (citizens of Manita) be such economically viable that they could assure all the commercial salicylic containing food stuffs in their regular diet? The opponent in the argument prematurely assume that people subsist in Manita are well-off to afford high value commercial food items in regular basis. People in that place may come under different economic class or may be; many of them belongs to lower-middle class - their living standard here is assumed to be well-to-do and unwavering without thorough research. If the above situation is true, then the argument doesn’t hold water.
Last but not the least, will it be wise to assume that high consumption of salicylate will only have health benefit - do not have any side effects - without deteriorating immune system or other health aspects? Whatever its health benefits are, if highly consumed--at the end it is a chemical compound--might create severe health glitches. It is possible that artificial foods fortified with salicylate, if regular consumed, might exacerbate the headache other diseases after couple of years; or it might cause insensitivity towards other analgesics drugs and make impossible to cure completely. If the provided reasons set valid then the given argument is meaningfully wakened.
In the conclusion, the argument, as it stands now, is considerably flawed due to its reliance on severe unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to answer all these questions mentioned above and offer more evidence ( perhaps in the form of more systematic study) then, it will be possible to fully evaluate the viability of the proposed prediction and argument.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 489 350
No. of Characters: 2516 1500
No. of Different Words: 253 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.702 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.145 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.71 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 186 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 143 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 115 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 66 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.737 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.346 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.684 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.295 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.374 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.081 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 2 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...and make impossible to cure completely. If the provided reasons set valid then t...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... mentioned above and offer more evidence perhaps in the form of more systematic s...
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Suggestion: than
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Line 6, column 367, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...f the proposed prediction and argument.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, well, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 55.5748502994 121% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2582.0 2260.96107784 114% => OK
No of words: 486.0 441.139720559 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31275720165 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69525374022 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83818796233 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 260.0 204.123752495 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.534979423868 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 831.6 705.55239521 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.70958083832 295% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.9343030633 57.8364921388 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.894736842 119.503703932 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5789473684 23.324526521 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.78947368421 5.70786347227 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.143122526116 0.218282227539 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0459251628808 0.0743258471296 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.053004635041 0.0701772020484 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0779528282356 0.128457276422 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0506234165091 0.0628817314937 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 14.3799401198 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.3550499002 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.17 8.32208582834 110% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 98.500998004 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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