Summarise the points made in the lecture,being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
Altruism is a type of behavior 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 abound, both among humans and among other mammals. Unselfish acts among humans range from the sharing of food with strangers to the donation of body organs to family members, and even to strangers. Such acts are altruistic in that they benefit another, yet provide little reward to the one performing the act. In fact, many species of animals appear willing to sacrifice food, or even their life, to assist other members of their group. The meerkat, which is a mammal that dwells in burrows in grassland areas of Africa, is often cited as an example. In groups of meerkats, an individual acts as a sentinel standing guard and looking out for predators while the others hunt for food or eat food they have obtained. If the sentinel meerkat sees a predator such as a hawk approaching the group, it gives an alarm cry alerting the other meerkats to run and seek shelter. By standing guard, the sentinel meerkat gains nothing —it goes without food while the others eat, and it places itself in grave danger. After it issues an alarm, it has to flee alone, which might make it more at risk to a predator, since animals in groups are often able to work together to fend off a predator. So the altruistic sentinel behavior helps ensure the survival of other members of the meerkat's group.
The lectures states about the more advanced research on altruism and refutes all of the points mentioned in the reading about altruism.
First of all, the lecturer mentions that meerkats have habit of eating before they go for standing guard. So they think of themselves before the orther group members. They look for predators so that they can first see the predator and get chance to escape earlier than others. These claims springs out the relevance of point that meerkat acts as standing guard while the other group members eating food.
Secondly, when meerkat sees a predator approaching the group, it alerts the group by giving an alarm cry, and escape himself in the nearby safe place, it does so for its own chances of survival. This contradicts the reading claim that meerkat gives the alarm cry to protect other meerkats from predators.
Finally, the lecturer puts forth another point that when humans donate their organs they receive appreciation from the society as well as they gain self worth, which is far more valuable to some people.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, look, second, secondly, so, well, while, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 1.0 10.4613686534 10% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 20.0 30.3222958057 66% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 885.0 1373.03311258 64% => OK
No of words: 177.0 270.72406181 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.64748333727 4.04702891845 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.23845772088 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Unique words: 116.0 145.348785872 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.655367231638 0.540411800872 121% => OK
syllable_count: 252.0 419.366225166 60% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.23620309051 36% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => 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 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.3549250366 49.2860985944 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.625 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.125 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.125 7.06452816374 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.160982167014 0.272083759551 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0676930513647 0.0996497079465 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0266533214794 0.0662205650399 40% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0909205979986 0.162205337803 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0166675644145 0.0443174109184 38% => 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: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 53.8541721854 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 38.0 63.6247240618 60% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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