Self awareness in animals
Both the passage and the lecture discuss a specific type of experiment, which is designed to check for the self-awareness among chimpanzees. The passage argues that the reactions of chimpanzees in front of a mirror is a reliable proof that animals can be aware of themselves. In a study, the chimpanzees who had been marked on the face and/or ear, during a period of deep anesthesia, could recognize themselves in the mirror and started to touch the markets on their own body instead of the mirror image. Hence, they differentiate between their own image and another chimpanzee. However, the lecturer criticizes the results and her arguments undermine the passage premises.
First of all, the professor states that the chimpanzee experiment is not reliable, and the results will not be repeated in multiple studies. For example, in another similar experiment, only one test animal out of a group started to touch the marked area of his face in front of the mirror. Therefore, the passage claim about monkeys, who repeatedly touched their eyebrows or ears because they had recognized themselves, is not endorsed. In fact, the mentioned results could be a random and insignificant finding.
Moreover, the professor indicates that touching ones’ face is a normal habit of chimpanzees. She highlightes the result of another experiment to oppose the conclusion of the passage. In that experiment, the test animals rubbed off the marks by frequent touching, even before being fully recovered from the anesthesia. Such experience showed that the test animals touch their face frequently with or without the presence of a mirror, which is in contrast to the passage claim, that says by being introduced to a mirror chimpanzees consciously begin to touch themselves more often.
Finally, the lecturer expresses her further doubt about the passage claims by explaining that the chimpanzees’ social behaviors normally consist of self-grooming and self-touching. Thus, their response to their mirror image could be merely their routine social behaviors, which is part of their effort to be fit in their clan. This opposes the passage that says self-recognition is the underlying reason for chimpanzees' behaviors in front of a mirror.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, hence, however, if, moreover, so, therefore, thus, for example, in contrast, in fact, first of all, in contrast to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 30.3222958057 162% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1882.0 1373.03311258 137% => OK
No of words: 355.0 270.72406181 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.3014084507 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34067318298 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97626129954 2.5805825403 115% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 145.348785872 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512676056338 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 571.5 419.366225166 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.050560374 49.2860985944 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.625 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1875 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.125 7.06452816374 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.159993574518 0.272083759551 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0530564302868 0.0996497079465 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0703623689024 0.0662205650399 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0971253786861 0.162205337803 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0492797701463 0.0443174109184 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.18 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 63.6247240618 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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