The following appeared in a health magazine published in Corpora."Medical experts say that only one-quarter of Corpora's citizens meet the current standards for adequate physical fitness, even though twenty years ago, one-half of all of Corpora's citizens

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The following appeared in a health magazine published in Corpora.
"Medical experts say that only one-quarter of Corpora's citizens meet the current standards for adequate physical fitness, even though twenty years ago, one-half of all of Corpora's citizens met the standards as then defined. But these experts are mistaken when they suggest that spending too much time using computers has caused a decline in fitness. Since overall fitness levels are highest in regions of Corpora where levels of computer ownership are also highest, it is clear that using computers has not made citizens less physically fit. Instead, as shown by this year's unusually low expenditures on fitness-related products and services, the recent decline in the economy is most likely the cause, and fitness levels will improve when the economy does."

Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.

The article published in a health magazine of Corpora states an important issue which the citizens of Corpora are facing, the physical fitness issue. The article suggests that the number of citizens meeting the standard of fitness has decreased over the years, as well as identifying one root cause behind it and expelling another suggestion. The article, however, seems to be filled with unwarranted assumptions and rife with holes in evidence it presented. The contrast in arguments and their validity is discussed in the essay as follows.

First, in order to quantify the number of people no...

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 344, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...nd it and expelling another suggestion. The article, however, seems to be filled wi...
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Line 1, column 460, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...fe with holes in evidence it presented. The contrast in arguments and their validit...
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Line 5, column 1038, Rule ID: ABSOLUTELY_ESSENTIAL[1]
Message: Use simply 'essential'.
Suggestion: essential
...per definition of changing standards is absolutely essential for this argument to behold.S Se...
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Line 5, column 1087, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: S
...y essential for this argument to behold.S Second, the article rather abrup...
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Line 13, column 274, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...veral unwarranted assumptions in it. It doesnt clearly put forward any relation betwee...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, finally, first, however, if, may, second, so, then, thus, well, while, in conclusion, kind of, as a result, as well as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 38.0 19.6327345309 194% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 13.6137724551 147% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 28.8173652695 135% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 106.0 55.5748502994 191% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3839.0 2260.96107784 170% => OK
No of words: 758.0 441.139720559 172% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06464379947 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.24707535641 4.56307096286 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.801924786 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 292.0 204.123752495 143% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.385224274406 0.468620217663 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1222.2 705.55239521 173% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.76447105788 171% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 73.4113128236 57.8364921388 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.185185185 119.503703932 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.0740740741 23.324526521 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.96296296296 5.70786347227 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 8.20758483034 207% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.368218429323 0.218282227539 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113956638584 0.0743258471296 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11807721086 0.0701772020484 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.260315346705 0.128457276422 203% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0637810308039 0.0628817314937 101% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 14.3799401198 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.3550499002 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 143.0 98.500998004 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 28 15
No. of Words: 760 350
No. of Characters: 3756 1500
No. of Different Words: 285 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.251 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.942 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.777 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 293 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 230 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 150 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 89 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.143 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.875 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.312 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.477 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.073 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5