A pet food company recalled 4 million pounds of pet food in response to complaints that pets that had consumed the food experienced vomiting, lethargy, and other signs of illness. After the recall, the pet food company tested samples from the recalled food and determined that all chemicals found in the food were chemicals that are approved for use in pet food. Thus, the recalled food was not responsible for these symptoms, and the company should not devote further resources to the investigation.
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 if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
There is an assertion about the pet foods of a company that their food has side effects of vomiting, lethargy and other sign of illnesses. In fact, this statement has several vital missing informations in need to be considered, accordingly, giving up or focusing on investigation of products should be second step decisions after regarding these potential fallacies and explanations.
Firstly, the first explanation for this result is that pets of complaints may be allergic to one of ingredients, followingly, they came up with symptoms of illnesses. In fact, there are many cases, pets are allergic to foods and their owners change brand due to this. To put it another way, there are many allergic issues of pets connected to nutritions besides this situation.
Secondly, they should consider prospect of this being as a strategy of some rivals which accuse them of risky chemicals without any evidence. There are many cases in competitive environments in which firms try to create bad reputation about their products. In fact, this methodology has came widespread recently due to the power of social media. Previously, it is not so easy to pervade some notions, nonetheless, it is viable only by posting something on a website. For instance, there may be %5 spurious complaining comments of clients wherease there are %80 sold ones.
Lastly, last potential fallacy worth to mention is that these pets may be more sensitive or already ill so that these symptoms are not only results of just a product. There is missing information about health controls of these pets. As we know, in animals, illnesses first show themselves with sensitivity or pains in stomache, therefore, there are general signs of any other ongoing health issue.
Besides, before taking any action, they should first investigate health status of these pets in order to ensure that this result is not related to any other illnesses or allergy. Following this they should conduct an elaborated evaluation to measure general rating of their product in the aim of checking trustfulness of these complaints risen.
In conclusion, all these fallacies and missing informations should be taken into account before taking any action. Even numbers and investigations show that there are some mistake in these product, then they should repeat ameliorated and detailed tests.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, besides, first, firstly, lastly, may, nonetheless, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, whereas, for instance, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1976.0 2235.4752809 88% => OK
No of words: 377.0 442.535393258 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24137931034 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4064143971 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82202936592 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 215.323595506 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549071618037 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 612.9 704.065955056 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => 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: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.0949613426 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.235294118 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1764705882 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.35294117647 5.21951772744 179% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 10.2758426966 19% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 5.13820224719 272% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.151776881928 0.243740707755 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0552742159993 0.0831039109588 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0970619918575 0.0758088955206 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0871338993314 0.150359130593 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.086308847094 0.0667264976115 129% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.08 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => 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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