"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.
In the above statements, The author that to reduce accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town should limit the number of mopeds rented to its half. It is also stated that this limitation of moped rentals can lead to a reduction in annual accidents. The above argument has so many holes and several unanswered questions for the recommendation to be valid.
Firstly, the author mentioned that the population of the island increases to 100,000 during the summer months. There is no information provided about the population in other months or seasons. Many people might be visitors to the island who come to the island in summer to stay for a week or two. The author claims that this increased population has led to increased annual moped accidents. How can the population increase for two or three months affect the annual accident rates?
Secondly, the author claims that limiting the number of rentals would affect the annual moped accidents rate. There is no information given about how many mopeds are rented annually. Also, it could be the case that, most of the people on the island own a moped and only a few of the population rent mopeds. If this case is true then limiting the rentals of moped wouldn’t affect the annual accident rates in any way.
Thirdly, the author has mentioned about a law enforcement in a neighboring island of Seaville last year and is using this as a backup for his recommendation. There is no information given about Seaville in the argument. It might be the case that, Most of the population of Seaville do not own a moped and they rent them from moped rentals. It might also be the case that the reduction in accidents in Seaville has nothing to do with the law enforcement. More research about the population, traffic rules, number of moped rentals annually in Seaville can be useful.
Lastly, there is no information given indicating the increased accidents due to population increase on Balmer Island. It might be the case that, The traffic rules and regulations in Balmer Island are far better than that of Seaville. Any information about the recent increase in moped accidents in Balmer might be useful to claim that there is a correlation between increased population and increased accidents.
For the claims and recommendation to be true, better statistical research about the cause of accidents, the road infrastructure on the island and the traffic regulations needs to be conducted. For the law enforcement to be beneficial in Balmes Island similar to Seaville Island, better research about similarities of these two islands including the population, number of registered mopeds, number of mopped accidents, road structures need to be considered.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 451 350
No. of Characters: 2206 1500
No. of Different Words: 166 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.608 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.891 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.747 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 165 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 102 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 85 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 61 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.645 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.409 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.357 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.582 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.092 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 55.5748502994 115% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 16.3942115768 165% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2267.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 450.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03777777778 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6057793516 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85111717329 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 204.123752495 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.388888888889 0.468620217663 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 711.0 705.55239521 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.6448855315 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.045454545 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4545454545 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.45454545455 5.70786347227 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.304421350364 0.218282227539 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107258288722 0.0743258471296 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0841936881551 0.0701772020484 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.179348131071 0.128457276422 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0683468584308 0.0628817314937 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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