A recently issued twenty-year study on headaches suffered by the residents of Mentia investigated the possible therapeutic effect of consuming salicylates. Salicylates are members of the same chemical family as aspirin, a medicine used to treat headaches. Although many foods are naturally rich in salicylates, food-processing companies also add salicylates to foods as preservatives. The twenty-year study found a correlation between the rise in the commercial use of salicylates and a steady decline in the average number of headaches reported by study participants. At the time when the study concluded, food-processing companies had just discovered that salicylates can also be used as flavor additives for foods, and, as a result, many companies plan to do so. Based on these study results, some health experts predict that residents of Mentia will suffer even fewer headaches in the future.
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 argument states that the study shown therapeutic effects of salicylates, which reduced headache in Mentia residents. The salicylates are used as food preservatives, and rise in the commercial use of salicylates reduces headaches, more food companies want to use salicylates in food, which in turn can reduce headaches in Mentia residents. This argument sounds relevant, however, there are many questions which are unanswered, and can challenge the conclusion.
First question is how many people of the city participated in the study. There are multiple possibilities, may be only few people participated, or people of all age groups didn't participate in the study, or participating people may have some other illness. All these questions can put restriction on generalizing the study results. The Mentia city may have people of different ages, nationalities, or people may have some other sickness, which is causing then headaches and in those twenty years that other sickness got cured, which indirectly cured headache also. In this case, salicylates may not played any role in curing headache.
Second question is on the conducted study. As per argument, the study is not proved, it is just saying possible effects, which means headaches might have cured by salicylates or by something else as well. It can happen also, the people who are participating in study are taking any other medicine along with salicylates, which is curing headache.
Another question is what is causing headache to the Mentia residents? It is normal headache, which happens once in a while, or there is another reason, for example, there might be any kind of pollution in air, water or soil, which is causing headache. Another reason may be any factory in the city, which is releasing chemicals in the air or water, and people live around that area, are suffering from headache, and all other residents have no such kind of problem.
Above mentioned questions can put doubt on conclusion, thus before reaching on conclusion, it is important to answer these questions, and analyze the results.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...rticipated, or people of all age groups didnt participate in the study, or participat...
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Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: as well
... cured, which indirectly cured headache also. In this case, salicylates may not play...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, may, second, so, then, thus, well, while, for example, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 28.8173652695 42% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 55.5748502994 65% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalization wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1752.0 2260.96107784 77% => OK
No of words: 335.0 441.139720559 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22985074627 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27820116611 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.877546912 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 204.123752495 83% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.50447761194 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 559.8 705.55239521 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 9.0 1.67365269461 538% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.9927403015 57.8364921388 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.8 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3333333333 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.86666666667 5.70786347227 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.165753939075 0.218282227539 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0610705729907 0.0743258471296 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0665840072105 0.0701772020484 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0889006728992 0.128457276422 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0656573067723 0.0628817314937 104% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.3799401198 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
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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