"A ten-year nationwide study of the effectiveness of wearing a helmet while bicycling indicates that ten years ago, approximately 35 percent of all bicyclists reported wearing helmets, whereas today that number is nearly 80 percent. Another study, however, suggests that during the same ten-year period, the number of bicycle-related accidents has increased 200 percent. These results demonstrate that bicyclists feel safer because they are wearing helmets, and they take more risks as a result. Thus, to reduce the number of serious injuries from bicycle accidents, the government should concentrate more on educating people about bicycle safety and less on encouraging or requiring bicyclists to wear helmets."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
The author of the argument purportedly highlights that in order to diminish the number of bicyclists' accidents, government should galvanize people to wear helmet instead of inform them about safety. However, the premises upon which he puts his claim are fallacious. For the support of which some critical, yet ignored question need to be addressed.
To commence with, the author asserts that ten years study about usefulness of wearing helmet show that it increase from 35 percent to 85 percent among people. However, it does not lend credence to the argument since a question that might arise is whether the number of population during this ten years has remained the same. One point that should be considered is that population in every corner of the world fluctuate day in day out so, without any doubt the population during these years has increased. In this case, the number of bicyclists and wearing helmet will increase simultaneously. Indeed, there is not any evidence to show that people are willing to wear these helmet by their own willing or not. Maybe government had coerced them to wear such helmets during ten years. It is also important to say that this study could not be reliable and accurate due to the fact that it does not represent in what ways the number of people wearing helmet has increased.
The author also contends that according to another study the number of accidents among bicyclists have increased drastically. Although it might seems tenable at face, it has some defects since you can always ask this question if those accidents happened just behalf of bicyclists. One of the main, if not the only, problem with the premise is that there are vast majorities of vehicles on the streets that might cause serious accidents. In fact, this study does not show to the extent bicyclists have been the main reason of accidents. Alongside that, bicyclists usually have specific lanes on the streets, which are safe to do. Arguably, maybe the major reason of accidents were other cars or people, who knows?
Finally, as set forth by the author because of wearing helmets, bicyclists feel safer and take more risks. Nevertheless, the rationale behind this premise could be challenged owing to an unsettled question if wearing helmets could keep bicyclists' bodies safe from injuries. One point that should not go unnoticed is that although wearing helmets could help bicyclists stay healthy, it could not guarantee bicyclists from other injuries. Indeed, there is possibility that other parts of their bodies be at risk. Moreover, bicyclists could not feel safe just by helmets owing to the fact that they should be aware of many rules about doing bicycle.
Having scrutinized all the premises, a logical conclusion that can be drawn is that there are a number of question, having been ignored by the author while the answer of which could add to the logic of each premise.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 668, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this helmet' or 'these helmets'?
Suggestion: this helmet; these helmets
...to show that people are willing to wear these helmet by their own willing or not. Maybe gove...
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Line 9, column 217, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...could add to the logic of each premise.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, while, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 24.0 13.6137724551 176% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 28.8173652695 149% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 55.5748502994 130% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2425.0 2260.96107784 107% => OK
No of words: 486.0 441.139720559 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98971193416 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69525374022 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51657530806 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 204.123752495 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475308641975 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 731.7 705.55239521 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.471057884232 212% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.3075511726 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.227272727 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0909090909 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.40909090909 5.70786347227 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232048068136 0.218282227539 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0694822021295 0.0743258471296 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0682936762678 0.0701772020484 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111173123923 0.128457276422 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0834607279674 0.0628817314937 133% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.59 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 98.500998004 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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