Summarize the points made in the lecture with the way they oppose to what is given in the passage as well.
According to the Reading passage, Altruism is a type of behaviour in which animals perform selfless acts for another animal or group of animals. This selfless behaviour is seen both in animals as well as humans.
The passage also talks about an example of meerkats which is a mammal habituating the grasslands of Africa to understand what are the traits shown by altruistic animals.
In the example cited, the meerkats keep a safe guard while other in the group look for food and in this course if there is any danger from the incoming predator to the group of meerkats, the safe guard gives a warning alarm. This signal allows the predator to notice the safe guard and the group can disperse quickly or can stay in group to fend off the predator.
The passage details that by standing guard there is no advantage obtained because the guard cannot eat food and therefore remains hungry. Moreover, the attention of the predator towards the guard increases the chances of becoming a prey. However, these details of the example have been challenged in the lecture with the recent study done on these meerkats of Africa. The studies suggest that the group of meerkats eats some food before going for hunting and the guard been given a larger part because of which the guard is not hungry. The second detail as suggested in passage was challenged on the grounds that the guard stands near the burrows such that if any predator is in sight, the guard alarms everyone with an alarm and quickly goes into the burrows protecting it from falling prey to the predator.
On the other hand, the group of meerkats show movements of either dispersing or gathering thus gets noticed by the predator and have more chances of falling prey than the guard.
These qualities of the guard are very complex in order to mark the traits that are to be considered as altruistic or not. The lecture also notes that what type of actions can be called altruistic such as a person donating a kidney to a relative or may be a complete stranger will never receive credit for this action from the person or from the society per say.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 194, Rule ID: BOTH_AS_WELL_AS[1]
Message: Probable usage error. Use 'and' after 'both'.
Suggestion: and
...fless behaviour is seen both in animals as well as humans. The passage also talks about...
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Line 15, column 354, Rule ID: PER_SE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'per se' (=by itself, by themselves)?
Suggestion: per se
...ion from the person or from the society per say.
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Line 15, column 363, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...the person or from the society per say.
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, look, may, moreover, second, so, therefore, thus, well, while, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 30.3222958057 171% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1748.0 1373.03311258 127% => OK
No of words: 371.0 270.72406181 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.7115902965 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38877662729 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.33151613347 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477088948787 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 531.9 419.366225166 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 55.1973329259 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.461538462 110.228320801 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.5384615385 21.698381199 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.23076923077 7.06452816374 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.09492273731 147% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
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: 0.0744747401258 0.272083759551 27% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0287705304608 0.0996497079465 29% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0289850845249 0.0662205650399 44% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.035767718148 0.162205337803 22% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0306466612461 0.0443174109184 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.98 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.8 11.0289183223 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.33 12.2367328918 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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