In an attempt to improve highway safety, Prunty County last year lowered its speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all county highways. But this effort has failed: the number of accidents has not decreased, and, based on reports by the highway patrol, many drivers are exceeding the speed limit. Prunty County should instead undertake the same kind of road improvement project that Butler County completed five years ago: increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways, and improving visibility at dangerous intersections. Today, major Butler County roads still have a 55 mph speed limit, yet there were 25 percent fewer reported accidents in Butler County this past year than there were five years ago.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The argument is flawing in its claim regarding highway safety in Prunty County. Necessary evidence should be presented to say something confident about the positive results of the policy taken place in Butler County.
Two counties are compared unwarrantedly that no reliable predictions can be made. For example, some additional information about mode drivers' age can make the situation a bit clearer: it looks sane that elder people drive more carefully. Had the argument provide such kind of information, it is still lacking in evidence of the driving experience of the population. It can be assumed, that people of Butler County have been driving for a longer period in general, eventually, they can be more attentive on the road.
The next argument flaw is the utter absence of data about the counties' landscapes which can differ dramatically, and such a factor also makes a difference. If Prunty County is located in a mountain region with serpentine and dangerous roads full of steep turns and, in its turn, Butler County is a plain territory with excellent visibility at every piece of the road, no doubt, that undertaking of the presented improvements will be futile.
The geographic position can also result in the climate inequality of counties. For example, the consideration of such factors as an annual number of rainy or snowy days, duration of cold periods characterized by ice cover on the roads, etc., would lead to more accurate predictions on the results of forthcoming improvements.
Unfortunately, the argument fails to make a convincing case regarding undertaking a policy of road safety due to unwarranted assumptions of similarity between two counties. A lot of factors can influence future results that had been exactly shown in this essay.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 286 350
No. of Characters: 1447 1500
No. of Different Words: 168 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.112 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.059 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.882 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 109 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 82 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 59 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.833 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.558 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.352 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.642 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.02 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, regarding, so, still, for example, in general, kind of, no doubt
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 28.8173652695 42% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1492.0 2260.96107784 66% => OK
No of words: 286.0 441.139720559 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21678321678 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96282408667 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.594405594406 0.468620217663 127% => OK
syllable_count: 480.6 705.55239521 68% => 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
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.6189978272 57.8364921388 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.333333333 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8333333333 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.08333333333 5.70786347227 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0977437749851 0.218282227539 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0358525825573 0.0743258471296 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0421714463689 0.0701772020484 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0527542382747 0.128457276422 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0362205999369 0.0628817314937 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.3550499002 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.32208582834 110% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 98.500998004 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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