An ancient, traditional remedy for insomnia—the scent of lavender flowers—has now been proved effective. In a recent study, 30 volunteers with chronic insomnia slept each night for three weeks on lavender-scented pillows in a controlled room where their sleep was monitored electronically. During the first week, volunteers continued to take their usual sleeping medication. They slept soundly but wakened feeling tired. At the beginning of the second week, the volunteers discontinued their sleeping medication. During that week, they slept less soundly than the previous week and felt even more tired. During the third week, the volunteers slept longer and more soundly than in the previous two weeks. Therefore, the study proves that lavender cures insomnia within a short period of time.
The statement argues that the lavender-scented pillows are a solution of insomnia. It substantiates its assertion by showing an experiment held in a recent study. However, these study has several unsubstantiated assumptions and is therefore irrelevant for reasoning the assertion.
First, the study was held in 3 weeks with using lavender-scented pillows. However, there are some problems with this part. The ancient traditional remedy of insomnia used actual lavender scent. However, the study used only lavender scent pillow, which might not have been enough for the actual effect to be efficient. Moreover, the duration of 3 weeks is not enough for concluding the result of the study. There might be an effect of the weather that make insomnia. Furthermore, the study was held during the sleep. There might be some volunteer that had hard days resulting deep sleep during the night. This example can distort the experiment held during the 3 week study.
Second, the study changes the variables during the study. The first week let the volunteer take their medicine treatment. However, in the second week, it did not. The result of this differed during the experiment, however, cannot coroborate the assertion. Even with the lavender scent, there is no noticable difference between each week. Moreover, letting people to take their pills might effect the lavender scent. There is no clue that the lavender scent was actually the main factor of the enhancement of sleeping. There should be other comparison to make this experiment reasonable with the assertion. The experiment without the lavender-scented pillows are needed to compare the actual effect of this assumption.
Third, the experiment held between the second week and the third week, the difference was the time of lavender scent the volunteers were exposed. To make this part reasonable, there must be other experiments to be held. We do not know that the main reason for the success of this treatment. Maybe the medicine was the main reason for insomnia. Therefore, there must be a comparison experiment held with consistently having pills during the study. Moreover, the experiment of this study uses only lavender scent. However, there might be other possibility that the lavender might not be the only scent for curing insomnia. There is a probability that the scent of any flower can cure the insomnia. Therefore, another experiment should be held with different scent to prove that the lavender scent is the only scent that cure insomnia.
Overall, the experiment in this study has several flaws. Moreover, it overlooks other possible reason for curing insomnia. Therefore, without further experiments, the argument's experiment logically fails to substantiate the assertion.
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Comments
e-rater score report
flaws:
too many "however"
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 33 15
No. of Words: 435 350
No. of Characters: 2249 1500
No. of Different Words: 164 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.567 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.17 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.726 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 155 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 118 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 90 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 60 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 13.182 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 3.973 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.576 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.304 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.304 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.1 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 389, Rule ID: AFFECT_EFFECT[6]
Message: Did you mean 'affect'?
Suggestion: affect
...etting people to take their pills might effect the lavender scent. There is no clue th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, furthermore, however, if, look, may, moreover, second, so, therefore, third, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 11.1786427146 18% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 16.3942115768 152% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2316.0 2260.96107784 102% => OK
No of words: 435.0 441.139720559 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32413793103 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56690854021 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83149342232 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 204.123752495 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.397701149425 0.468620217663 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 708.3 705.55239521 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.76447105788 171% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 19.7664670659 167% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 22.8473053892 57% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.5342187448 57.8364921388 44% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 70.1818181818 119.503703932 59% => More chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 13.1818181818 23.324526521 57% => More words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 3.06060606061 5.70786347227 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 23.0 4.67664670659 492% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.366169734697 0.218282227539 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112289126778 0.0743258471296 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0885867248581 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.225053585752 0.128457276422 175% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0773748929795 0.0628817314937 123% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 14.3799401198 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.28 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.197005988 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.69 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.0 8.32208582834 84% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 12.3882235529 48% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 11.1389221557 65% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 11.9071856287 59% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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