The following memorandum is from the business manager of Happy Pancake House restaurants.
"Recently, butter has been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States. This change, however, has had little impact on our customers. In fact, only about 2 percent of customers have complained, indicating that an average of 98 people out of 100 are happy with the change. Furthermore, many servers have reported that a number of customers who ask for butter do not complain when they are given margarine instead. Clearly, either these customers do not distinguish butter from margarine or they use the term 'butter' to refer to either butter or margarine."
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
The author claims that replacement of cheese with margarine in Happy Pancake restaurant had an insignificant effect on customers and many of them couldn’t differentiate between margarine and cheese as there was less percentage of complaints from customers and from report given by servers.However these explanations are not cogent enough to conclude that replacement had little effect as they are based on some assumptions which aren’t warranted or discussed.
First the author assumes that less percentage of complaints equal to happy with change.Yet it may not be true as it might be possible that many people didn’t like the change but only few gave complaint as others who didn’t give complaint might feel that giving of complaints might to lead to unnecessary arguments or they might be too busy and can’t waste their time by giving complaints.Moreover he also assumes that less percentage of complaints equal to less number of complaints which isn’t true as it depends on number of customers who visit the restaurant.Suppose if there were only 100 customers then 20 percentage equals 20 complaints.But if there were 100 customers then 20 percentage equal to 200 complaints which a large number of complaints and can’t be neglected.
Secondly the author also assumes that reports from servers is accurate enough to lead to conclusion.However it might not be the case since customers didn’t complain doesn’t mean they are happy. As they were served with only margarine and cheese wasn’t available they no other option except margarine to accept .But if they had opportunity of choosing between margarine and cheese they might have prefered cheese.Further the author also assumes that customers little response to change with Happy Pancake restaurant dishes doesn’t imply they can’t differentiate between cheese and margarine in other cases.Perhaps Pancake restaurant might be famous for cakes and use of margarine in place of cheese might have altered the taste little and people mostly ordered cakes (as restaurant was famous for it ) and didn’t notice the change.But if they were served with pizza whose taste might alter with replacement we can’t judge about their ability to differentiate.
Thus the author opinion isn’t logically sound.Before he could claim his opinion he have to take into account opinion of all customers,number of complaints not the percentage complaints and other dishes in which replacement might alter the taste.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2135.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 387.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.51679586563 5.12650576532 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43534841618 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.22728363394 2.78398813304 116% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.434108527132 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 655.2 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 5.0 19.7664670659 25% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 77.0 22.8473053892 337% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 256.859183211 57.8364921388 444% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 427.0 119.503703932 357% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 77.4 23.324526521 332% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 15.6 5.70786347227 273% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 34.0 5.25449101796 647% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.158844275929 0.218282227539 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.099430407739 0.0743258471296 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0710853381407 0.0701772020484 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110538258823 0.128457276422 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0746482128076 0.0628817314937 119% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 43.3 14.3799401198 301% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -15.14 48.3550499002 -31% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 14.6 7.1628742515 204% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 34.5 12.197005988 283% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 15.92 12.5979740519 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.27 8.32208582834 123% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 98.500998004 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 29.0 12.3882235529 234% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 32.8 11.1389221557 294% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 29.0 11.9071856287 244% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
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 -- 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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