Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they oppose specific points made in the reading passage.
The reading passage introduces the idea of altruism or the act of selflessness seen in humans and other mammals and gives examples to explain it. The professor in the conversation explains that some examples considered as altruistic acts in the passage, are in fact not selfless and there is some benefit for the person or the animal performing the deed. These examples are elaborated on in the following paragraphs.
Firstly, the lecturer gives the example of a scientific experiment conducted on meerkats. According to the experiment, the individual meerkat, which is believed to be performing an altruistic act as per the passage, by guarding and looking out for the predators while its group mates search or eat the food, in fact, gets some benefits from the task. For example, they have more chances of survival than their mates in case of an encounter with a predator. Also, these sentinel meerkats eat before their mates. So, it’s not like they are being unselfish and wait for their mates to eat first. Thus, opposing the passage’s example of a guarding meerkat.
Furthermore, the lecturer also says that another example cited in the reading passage on altruistic acts performed by humans is flawed. The passage says that humans perform the unselfish deed of organ donation. But, the professor suggests that there is some gain for the donor. For example- They will receive appreciation from the recipient and the society for performing this task.
To sum up, the professor does not agree with the examples cited as unselfish acts in the reading passage.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, look, so, thus, while, for example, in fact, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1320.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 259.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09652509653 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68032100501 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 137.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.528957528958 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 403.2 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 57.6239126242 49.2860985944 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.2857142857 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06452816374 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.107570143281 0.272083759551 40% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.043823795954 0.0996497079465 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.036227346666 0.0662205650399 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0664356326866 0.162205337803 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0189677194647 0.0443174109184 43% => 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: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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