Reading discusses about Altruisim which means animals and humans do some action for others interest and is kind of selfless act and sacrify themselves for others and gives examples. However, in the lecture, professor makes a series of points that cast doubt on all the arguments presented in the passage. She states closer view by recent experiment showed different explanation for each of the examples provided in the reading.
First of all, professor clarifies that Meerkat sentinels in contrast to the idea presented in the reading do not sacrify their food for other group memeber. In other word, they eat before standing as sentinel and their stomach is full.
Also, lecturer refutes the idea of the reading about the altruism act of Meerkat sentinel. She states they stand near the burrow and they escape immidiately after seeing predetor. In fact, sending alarms might cause distraction and draw predetor's attention from the caller to the group.
Lastly, the professor points out that donating kidney to relative or strangers which the reading called it selflessness act could be explain differently. In fact, some non material rewards are very important for some people. Therefore, increasing self worth due to receiving appreciation and approvals of others could be the reason of this act in humans.
- four day work week 68
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Universities should give the same amount of money to their students’ sports activities as they give to their university libraries. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. 70
- Reading time: 3 minutesEaster IslandApproximately 500 years ago, the flourishing society of Easter Island suffered a steep decline in population. Many theories have surfaced explaining how this could have happened to such a thriving culture. Within this s 65
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Universities should give the same amount of money to their students’ sports activities as they give to their university libraries. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. 70
- Altruism is a type of behaviour in which an animal sacrifices its own interest for that of another animal or group of animals. Altruism is the opposite of selfishness; individuals performing altruistic acts gain nothing for themselves.Examples of altruism 60
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, lastly, so, therefore, in contrast, in fact, kind of, first of all, in contrast to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1105.0 1373.03311258 80% => OK
No of words: 211.0 270.72406181 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23696682464 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.81127787577 4.04702891845 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58175980763 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.63981042654 0.540411800872 118% => OK
syllable_count: 328.5 419.366225166 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.23620309051 12% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 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: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.7398898233 49.2860985944 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.454545455 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1818181818 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.81818181818 7.06452816374 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.152792104883 0.272083759551 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0503086408934 0.0996497079465 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0501321231621 0.0662205650399 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0829135334119 0.162205337803 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0409688661871 0.0443174109184 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.59 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.