SuperCorp recently moved its headquarters to Corporateville. The recent surge in the number of homeowners in Corporateville proves that Corporateville is a superior place to live then Middlesburg, the home of SuperCorp's current headquarters. Moreover, Middleburg is a predominately urban area and according to an employee survey, SuperCorp has determined that its workers prefer to live in an area that is not urban. Finally, Corporateville has lower taxes than Middlesburg, making it not only a safer place to work but also a cheaper one. Therefore, Supercorp clearly made the best decision.
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 the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The claim presented in the given argument states that the Supercorp believes that the Corporateville is much better place than the Middlesburg, just because there is recent surge in the number of homeowners in the Corporateville and a short survey by Corporateville states that the workers of the company prefer to live in non urban area such as Corporateville as compared to urban area such as Middlesburg. Stated in this way the author demonstrates several logical fallacies and the conclusion of the argument relies heavily on the baseless assumption, for which there is lack of proper evidencing; Hence the argument is weak and unconvincing. The major logical fallacies are detailed in the upcoming paragraph.
Firstly, the author assumes that if the number of homeowners are shifting to non urban area that is Corporateville from the urban area that is Middlesburg , that means the new place is superior is purely based on false assumption. There could not be only one factor in doing so, there are possible chances that the cost of land in Middlesburg would have increased which has led to shifting to new people to cheap which is much affordable. There are likely chances that the people have started giving priority to cost as compare to facilities and environment. But for a company the most suitable place to have headquarters is the most densely populated place through which they can have access to every humankind and every resource which won't be available in the non urban area or place. Therefore a proper research should have been done and every aspect of the company should have been watched out before taking such a big decision. Due to wrong decision whole company can go into vain.
Secondly, it is stated that that the workers prefer living in non urban area as compared to urban area but no such statistical figures are given like how many workers, What is the ratio ? It is possible that the only few of the workers have been surveyed or there are the chances of any personal bias in the workers before stating such statements. A proper survey including, workers,officers or other staff should have been done anad proper figures should have been diagnosed before taking such big steps.
At last, it is stated that the taxes in Corporateville is less than Middlesburg, so it makes cheaper for the company to work in, but again no proper evidence has been provided in the statement. At instance, it is possible that there are lack of proper resources for the company to operate or there are chances that the company has to take out extra money to get the resources into the city which we nullify all the cost cutting the company has done in taxes.
Concluding, there are several groundless assumptions which should be nullified and proper survey should be done before taking such extreme steps.Without the above defined evidence the argument continues to remain unsubstantial and open to debate.
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- SuperCorp recently moved its headquarters to Corporateville The recent surge in the number of homeowners in Corporateville proves that Corporateville is a superior place to live then Middlesburg the home of SuperCorp s current headquarters Moreover Middle 66
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 155, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... from the urban area that is Middlesburg , that means the new place is superior is...
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Line 2, column 787, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...ailable in the non urban area or place. Therefore a proper research should have been done...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: that
...n go into vain. Secondly, it is stated that that the workers prefer living in non urban ...
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Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , officers
...ents. A proper survey including, workers,officers or other staff should have been done a...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...vey including, workers,officers or other staff should have been done anad proper ...
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Without
...e done before taking such extreme steps.Without the above defined evidence the argument...
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Line 5, column 193, Rule ID: CONTINUE_TO_REMAIN[1]
Message: Use simply 'remains'.
Suggestion: remains
...the above defined evidence the argument continues to remain unsubstantial and open to debate.
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...emain unsubstantial and open to debate.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, as to, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.6327345309 178% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 13.6137724551 162% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2427.0 2260.96107784 107% => OK
No of words: 492.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93292682927 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70967865282 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74773915818 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.430894308943 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 784.8 705.55239521 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => 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: 32.0 22.8473053892 140% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 83.2566046763 57.8364921388 144% => OK
Chars per sentence: 161.8 119.503703932 135% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.8 23.324526521 141% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.26666666667 5.70786347227 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
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: 0.144222906289 0.218282227539 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0455699737757 0.0743258471296 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0905825473878 0.0701772020484 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0789934892543 0.128457276422 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0907617518457 0.0628817314937 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.2 14.3799401198 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.0 48.3550499002 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.197005988 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.91 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 98.500998004 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 28.5 12.3882235529 230% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.1389221557 133% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 Out of 6
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