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The following appeared as part of an article in a business magazine.
"A recent study rating 300 male and female Mentian advertising executives according to the average number of hours they sleep per night showed an association between the amount of sleep the executives need and the success of their firms. Of the advertising firms studied, those whose executives reported needing no more than 6 hours of sleep per night had higher profit margins and faster growth. These results suggest that if a business wants to prosper, it should hire only people who need less than 6 hours of sleep per night."
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 which might seem plausible based on the fact that less sleep meaning more put inputted into work, is based solely on study carried out on 300 Mentian advertising executives only and generalized for all kind of business. These results suggesting that if a business wants to prosper, it should hire only people who need less than 6 hours of sleep per night is flawed for the following reasons.
No two business organisation are the same, the argument failed to recognized the different perculiarities of different business organisation. For example organisation which require the physical strength of their workers will need these workers to rest well if they are to be effective in their delivery. The also those not provide a wide range of data, it only considered executives in it's survey, what about other strata of the job do they not contribute to the efficiency of the organisation?, Therefore the reliability of the method of survey employed is highly questionable.
The argument failed to recognized that there are other factors affecting the success of a business apart from the time input of it workers, such as market demand, location of business and several other factors. For example is the business is located in a thriving economy not just the sedulous nature of the the staffs that will determine the success of the business.
Thirdly, the experience level of a worker goes a long way in determining the efficiency of such worker, a staff with 15 years of experience will surely have more to contribute as compared to some nascent co-worker.
I strongly suggestion the conclusion drawn be reviewed, before it can be considered as a criteria for determining the success of a business.
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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: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 9 15
No. of Words: 285 350
No. of Characters: 1403 1500
No. of Different Words: 156 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.109 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.923 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.805 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 101 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 82 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 59 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 31.667 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.958 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.778 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.402 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.402 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.061 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 304, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...economy not just the sedulous nature of the the staffs that will determine the success ...
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Line 3, column 304, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...economy not just the sedulous nature of the the staffs that will determine the success ...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 3, Rule ID: PRP_RB_NO_VB[1]
Message: Are you missing a verb?
... compared to some nascent co-worker. I strongly suggestion the conclusion drawn be reviewed, befor...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 88, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a criterion' or simply 'criteria'?
Suggestion: a criterion; criteria
...eviewed, before it can be considered as a criteria for determining the success of a busine...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, therefore, third, thirdly, well, apart from, for example, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 11.1786427146 18% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1431.0 2260.96107784 63% => OK
No of words: 285.0 441.139720559 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02105263158 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89220729457 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 204.123752495 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.561403508772 0.468620217663 120% => OK
syllable_count: 463.5 705.55239521 66% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 19.7664670659 46% => 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: 31.0 22.8473053892 136% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 43.5144363728 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 159.0 119.503703932 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.6666666667 23.324526521 136% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.3333333333 5.70786347227 181% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.10657520996 0.218282227539 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0431545117739 0.0743258471296 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0414231657628 0.0701772020484 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0497870797524 0.128457276422 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0570973513033 0.0628817314937 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.0 14.3799401198 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.01 48.3550499002 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.197005988 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.43 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 98.500998004 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.1389221557 129% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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