"On Balmer Island, where mopeds serve as a popular form of transportation, the population increases to 100,000 during the summer months. To reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balmer Island should limit the number of mopeds rented by the island's moped rental companies from 50 per day to 25 per day during the summer season. By limiting the number of rentals, the town council will attain the 50 percent annual reduction in moped accidents that was achieved last year on the neighboring island of Seaville, when Seaville's town council enforced similar limits on moped rentals."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The argument presented here is that by reducing the number of moped rentals during the time of high demands for mopeds, accidents related to mopeds can be reduced. While it may seem to be a valid argument on the surface, the argument is rigged with assumptions, failure of which will change the outcome.
As mentioned in the argument, the island of Seaville had enforced similar regulations on reducing the number of moped rentals. First of all, the answer to whether restrictions in the number of rentals was the only measure taken in the neighboring island would help to access the efficacy of the measure. If there were other laws enforced, how much did each law contribute to the reduction in accidents should also be answered to be certain on whether reduction in the rental was the most effective method of reducing accidents.
After asnwering the questions about the measures taken in the neighbouring island, it is also necessary to determine reduction of rentals by what number would be the msot effective to decrease the number of accidents. In saying that reducing the rentals from 50 per day to 25 per day, the argument above provides no evidence to say why the number is appropriate. While decreasing the number of moped rentals might decrease the number of accidents, renting too few mopeds might hamper the economy and mode of life of the island, while renting too many mopeds might not significantly reduce accidents. Thus, more data needs to be gathered and analyzed to come up with the correct number for allowed rentals.
Further, the argument also assumes that reducing the moped rentals will decrease the accidents by 50 percent, but the argument fails to justify the number. As with the process of finding out what number of rentals should be allowed, there needs to be a proper analysis of how much reduction in accident can achieved by reducting the rental. Therefore, by developing a correlation between the number of reduction in rentals and the percentage of decrease in accidents, the town council will have a better idea while setting its target and will enforce restrictions accordingly.
The argument presents a measure to reduce accidents in the island of Balmer. If the argument is true, it provides the town council a solution to a serious problem of accidents. However, there are numerous questions that need to be addressed before the town council can adopt the recommendation. Propper justification of the numbers presented and more evidence on the efficiency of the measure in the neighbouring island will make the argument sound and will compel the town council to enforce the recommendation.
Discourse Markers used:
['accordingly', 'also', 'but', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'therefore', 'thus', 'while', 'first of all']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.260593220339 0.25644967241 102% => OK
Verbs: 0.16313559322 0.15541462614 105% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0550847457627 0.0836205057962 66% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0338983050847 0.0520304965353 65% => OK
Pronouns: 0.00847457627119 0.0272364105082 31% => OK
Prepositions: 0.152542372881 0.125424944231 122% => OK
Participles: 0.0656779661017 0.0416121511921 158% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.7754632671 2.79052419416 99% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0381355932203 0.026700313972 143% => OK
Particles: 0.00423728813559 0.001811407834 234% => OK
Determiners: 0.133474576271 0.113004496875 118% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0360169491525 0.0255425247493 141% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0148305084746 0.0127820249294 116% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2635.0 2731.13054187 96% => OK
No of words: 438.0 446.07635468 98% => OK
Chars per words: 6.01598173516 6.12365571057 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57476223824 4.57801047555 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.399543378995 0.378187486979 106% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.317351598174 0.287650121315 110% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.214611872146 0.208842608468 103% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.111872146119 0.135150697306 83% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7754632671 2.79052419416 99% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 207.018472906 93% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.440639269406 0.469332199767 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 48.1168875393 52.1807786196 92% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 20.039408867 80% => OK
Sentence length: 27.375 23.2022227129 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.1795214704 57.7814097925 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 164.6875 141.986410481 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.375 23.2022227129 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.75 0.724660767414 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.58251231527 0% => OK
Readability: 59.1101598174 51.9672348444 114% => OK
Elegance: 2.32989690722 1.8405768891 127% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.607863223642 0.441005458295 138% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.161492513496 0.135418324435 119% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0606362514758 0.0829849096947 73% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.707300676114 0.58762219726 120% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0964134306183 0.147661913831 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.343679733399 0.193483328276 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0957343069165 0.0970749176394 99% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.597602362006 0.42659136922 140% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0560860751511 0.0774707102158 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.478086862308 0.312017818177 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0526315813562 0.0698173142475 75% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.33743842365 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.87684729064 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.82512315271 21% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 6.0 6.46551724138 93% => OK
Negative topic words: 9.0 5.36822660099 168% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 16.0 14.657635468 109% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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