The council of Maple County, concerned about the county's becoming overdeveloped, is debating a proposed measure that would prevent the development of existing farmland in the county. But the council is also concerned that such a restriction, by limiting the supply of new housing, could lead to significant increases in the price of housing in the county. Proponents of the measure note that Chestnut County established a similar measure ten years ago, and its housing prices have increased only modestly since. However, opponents of the measure note that Pine County adopted restrictions on the development of new residential housing fifteen years ago, and its housing prices have since more than doubled. The council currently predicts that the proposed measure, if passed, will result in a significant increase in housing prices in Maple County.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
The above prompt suggests a discussion that is taking place between two competing parties who have a contradicting point of view regarding the solution proposed by the council of Maple County to curb over-development in the county. The proponents are of the view that curbing over-development would not mean that the prices of housing in Maple County will rise significantly and give the evidence of Chestnut County. On the contrary, opponents of the proposal suggest that the prices of housing will increase sharply and base their point on the observations drawn from Pine County. the council predicts that the proposed measure would lead to increase in house prices and side with the opponents of the proposal. The evidences provided by both sides seem legible during the first reading, but a close scrutiny unearths a few fallacies which might lead the council to mull over their decision again.
Firstly, is the demographic setup of Maple County and Chester County the same? If it happens to be different, the comparison of Maple County with Chester County proves to be unwarranted. If the people living in Chester County are not as affluent as the ones in Maple County, then it could possibly prove why the house prices have not increased sharply in Chester County. Moreover, the measure, to be proposed at Maple County, was implemented in Chester County ten years ago. At that time, it could be possible that this measure was a viable option, but it can be a true that such a proposal would not be of the best interest for Maple County in the present scenario.
Secondly, the opponents of the proposal compare Maple County with Pine County. The same question arises again. Is Pine County comparable to Maple county in terms of its demographic landscape? If this does not happen to be the case, then the comparison seems to take place between two entirely dis-similar counties. Perhaps, the spending power of the citizens of Pine County is so large that it has led to an increase in the house prices. Another possible reason could be the inefficiency of the council at Pine County to regulate the prices in housing sector that has lead to such a marked increase in the housing prices.
Lastly, the council of Maple County predicts that if the proposed measure is passed, it will lead to increase in house prices in Maple County. This prediction sits upon evidences that could prove to be unwarranted and dubious and the questions raised above could well be an indication that the prediction of the council lies upon premises that have not been verified.
In sum, the evidences provided by both the factions seem to be completely baseless. They seem to lend no support to the argument that are being made. Therefore, it seems hard to predict whether the proposed measure by the council would lead to an increase in house price in Maple County or no.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 488 350
No. of Characters: 2324 1500
No. of Different Words: 200 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.7 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.762 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.542 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 169 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 121 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.4 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.074 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.7 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.375 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.563 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.123 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 583, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
...he observations drawn from Pine County. the council predicts that the proposed meas...
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Line 1, column 796, Rule ID: CLOSE_SCRUTINY[1]
Message: Use simply 'scrutiny'.
Suggestion: scrutiny
...legible during the first reading, but a close scrutiny unearths a few fallacies which might le...
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Line 3, column 284, Rule ID: MAY_COULD_POSSIBLY[1]
Message: Use simply 'could'.
Suggestion: could
...nt as the ones in Maple County, then it could possibly prove why the house prices have not inc...
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Line 9, column 294, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...se in house price in Maple County or no.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, lastly, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, well, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 78.0 55.5748502994 140% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2383.0 2260.96107784 105% => OK
No of words: 488.0 441.139720559 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88319672131 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70007681154 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60417121293 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.409836065574 0.468620217663 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 741.6 705.55239521 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.8545534302 57.8364921388 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.476190476 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2380952381 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.42857142857 5.70786347227 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.290907142873 0.218282227539 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.116923285656 0.0743258471296 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0864570369621 0.0701772020484 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186527546274 0.128457276422 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0344265411612 0.0628817314937 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 98.500998004 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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