"On Balmer Island, where mopeds serve as a popular form of transportation, the population increases to 100,000 during the summer months. To reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balmer Island should limit the number of mopeds rented by the island's moped rental companies from 50 per day to 25 per day during the summer season. By limiting the number of rentals, the town council will attain the 50 percent annual reduction in moped accidents that was achieved last year on the neighboring island of Seaville, when Seaville's town council enforced similar limits on moped rentals."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The reasoning that is provided in the recommendation is that reducing the number of mopeds rented per company will reduce the accidents by 50 percent. In my opinion, this reasoning is, in itself, not binding and various questions are needed to be answered in order to consider the recommendation.
First of all, the basis of the reasoning is the results obtained in the neighboring island of Seaville. While it might be true that Seaville implemented the recommended step of limiting rental mopeds for a company, there may have been other measures taken in Seaville which might have been the primary factor behind reduced accidents. For example, it is possible that Seaville implemented strict traffic rules like strict speed limits or stern punishments for driving under intoxication. These rules, and not reduced number of rental mopeds, might have been the main reason for the decrease in accidents. In this case, the argument might lose validity. Hence, while considering the recommendation it is imprtant to know whether Seaville implemented other policy changes that could have caused the reduction in number of accidents.
Another case in which the argument can be undermined is when the number of mopeds in the street remain the same even if the policy is applied. This can happen if there are more moped rental companies being formed in Balmer. It is obvious that there will always be demand of mopeds in Balmer, since it is the primary means of transport in Balmer. If the available moped companies are not able to supply required number of mopeds, the demand will cause other companies to be established. Hence, even if the companies are not allowed to rent more than 50 mopeds per day, formation of new companies may lead to same number of mopeds in the street. Hence, in order to test if this scenario is possible, it is imperative to know if there are rules which restrict the number of moped rental companies to be established in the area. If there are such rules, then the argument makes a strong case, but if there are not, the above mentioned scenario might occur and the efforts made by the island administration will be futile.
Finally, there are doubts over the certainlty with which the reduction in accidents occur if the number of mopeds are reduced. We need to know if there are enough data that actually show that such drastic change reduction can actually occur merely by reducing the number of mopeds. If there are strong emprical evidence, then the recommendatin can be taken into consideration. If there is not not much data, it is a drivel to believe in such recommendation.
It is likely that there is a correlation between reduction in number of motor vehicles and simultaneous reduction in road accidents. keeping that in mind, the island will likely do more research and consider ways to reduce number of mopeds. However, it is very important for the island to consider the above mentioned questions before deciding whether or not to follow the recommendation.
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...ove mentioned questions before deciding whether or not to follow the recommendation.
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'then', 'while', 'for example', 'first of all', 'in my opinion']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.237749546279 0.25644967241 93% => OK
Verbs: 0.179673321234 0.15541462614 116% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0834845735027 0.0836205057962 100% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0399274047187 0.0520304965353 77% => OK
Pronouns: 0.021778584392 0.0272364105082 80% => OK
Prepositions: 0.150635208711 0.125424944231 120% => OK
Participles: 0.0508166969147 0.0416121511921 122% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.73020838755 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.02722323049 0.026700313972 102% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0925589836661 0.113004496875 82% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0308529945554 0.0255425247493 121% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0145190562613 0.0127820249294 114% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2999.0 2731.13054187 110% => OK
No of words: 505.0 446.07635468 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.93861386139 6.12365571057 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74048574033 4.57801047555 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.370297029703 0.378187486979 98% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.245544554455 0.287650121315 85% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.184158415842 0.208842608468 88% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.108910891089 0.135150697306 81% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73020838755 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 207.018472906 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.411881188119 0.469332199767 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 46.7232845617 52.1807786196 90% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.039408867 110% => OK
Sentence length: 22.9545454545 23.2022227129 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.2871921489 57.7814097925 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.318181818 141.986410481 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9545454545 23.2022227129 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.636363636364 0.724660767414 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 3.58251231527 140% => OK
Readability: 47.5090009001 51.9672348444 91% => OK
Elegance: 1.81954887218 1.8405768891 99% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.435178728359 0.441005458295 99% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.171493357566 0.135418324435 127% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0720227030273 0.0829849096947 87% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.580786234331 0.58762219726 99% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.124998817915 0.147661913831 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.209874177451 0.193483328276 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.116746527009 0.0970749176394 120% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.463032848623 0.42659136922 109% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.084983331146 0.0774707102158 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.32512508237 0.312017818177 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.049306478704 0.0698173142475 71% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.33743842365 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.87684729064 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.82512315271 83% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 6.46551724138 77% => OK
Negative topic words: 12.0 5.36822660099 224% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 14.657635468 130% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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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