OG1 - meerkat altruistic actions
Both the reading and the lecture discuss altruism and the unselfish actions among animals. The passage brings the meerkat, an African mammal, as an example which sacrifices its food and security to help other members of the group, and mentions three reasons to defend its claim. The lecturer stands on the other side, contradicting all the facts and ideas which will be discussed in the next paragraphs.
Firstly, the text suggests that in the group of the meerkat, an individual often standing guard and reporting the environmental situation. In this regard, if a predator comes close to the location, the guard gives an alarm to the others to run and find shelter. Therefore, the individual meerkat obtains nothing and is prone to the great peril of being hunted. However, the professor points out that the new studies which investigate meerkats much carefully than ever have done before states that the guard individual tends to eat before starting its mission, and it has a full stomach while looking around.
Secondly, the passage mentions that after issuing an alarm, every other meerkat flee, and the guard has to escape alone, which leads to a higher risk of being caught by the predator. In contrast, the speaker asserts that when the alarm issued, all the meerkat scatter that leads to the distraction of the predator from the conspicuous standing individual. Moreover, the one who first sees the predator is often closer to the burrow and is most likely to escape.
Finally, the reading claims that altruistic actions among people have a wide range from the sharing of food to the donation of body organs to family members which benefits the others and provide a little reward for the performer. On the other hand, the lecturer suggests that when someone donates one of his body organs to the other one, he receives appreciation from society and other family members, which means so much to him. Thus, he feels precious to some people, and an increase in self-worth makes him happier.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, however, if, look, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, while, as to, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1669.0 1373.03311258 122% => OK
No of words: 336.0 270.72406181 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96726190476 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28139028586 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46247165517 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 145.348785872 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553571428571 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 499.5 419.366225166 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.472748003 49.2860985944 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.384615385 110.228320801 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8461538462 21.698381199 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5384615385 7.06452816374 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.132882088295 0.272083759551 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0463471887398 0.0996497079465 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0403469341246 0.0662205650399 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0746296947318 0.162205337803 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.010042947027 0.0443174109184 23% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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