"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 argument concludes that in-order to reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians Balmer Island must limit the number of moped rentals from 50 to 25 per day based. This is based on a similar decision taken by the Seaville islands that resulted in lowering the number of moped accidents by 50 percent. While the argument at first seems reasonable, further analysis is required to establish its validity. The questions regarding involvement of mopeds in the accident, validity of drawing comparison between two islands must be answered before the decision of the town council of Balmer Island can be accepted.
To start with, the first assumption that the town council makes is that all the accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians are due to the fault of moped drivers. What if the accidents are due to pedestrians or lack of proper infrastructure for the moped drivers? Could it be because the people are not aware of road safety rules? Also, it is an assumption that with an increase in the population, moped rentals also increase. There is no evidence provided that supports this assumption. If that is the case, then reducing number of mopeds would not have any impact on the number of accidents.
Secondly, the decision to consider reduction in the number of moped rentals is being made looking at the results achieved in the Seaville Islands. But, can the two Islands be compared to each other? Does the Seaville island have similar population and transport infrastructure? There is no supporting evidence for this assumption. It could be that the island of Seaville has a better awareness amongst its people regarding road safety and better infrastructure available for the riders.
To sum, the decision to reduce the number of mopeds in-order to reduce the number of accidents fails to substantiate its claim based on the evidence provided. As it fails to lend support to the argument. Without further additional evidence the scenario between the two islands cannot be compared and argument that mopeds only are responsible for the accidents cannot be supported.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 160, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'if', 'look', 'regarding', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'then', 'while', 'to start with']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.265415549598 0.25644967241 103% => OK
Verbs: 0.184986595174 0.15541462614 119% => OK
Adjectives: 0.058981233244 0.0836205057962 71% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0241286863271 0.0520304965353 46% => Some adverbs wanted.
Pronouns: 0.0187667560322 0.0272364105082 69% => OK
Prepositions: 0.139410187668 0.125424944231 111% => OK
Participles: 0.058981233244 0.0416121511921 142% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.77388193166 2.79052419416 99% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0375335120643 0.026700313972 141% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.128686327078 0.113004496875 114% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0214477211796 0.0255425247493 84% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00536193029491 0.0127820249294 42% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2105.0 2731.13054187 77% => OK
No of words: 344.0 446.07635468 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.11918604651 6.12365571057 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30665032142 4.57801047555 94% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.40988372093 0.378187486979 108% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.302325581395 0.287650121315 105% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.235465116279 0.208842608468 113% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.130813953488 0.135150697306 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77388193166 2.79052419416 99% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 207.018472906 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.450581395349 0.469332199767 96% => OK
Word variations: 45.6483124851 52.1807786196 87% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 20.039408867 90% => OK
Sentence length: 19.1111111111 23.2022227129 82% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.9067340022 57.7814097925 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.944444444 141.986410481 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1111111111 23.2022227129 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.666666666667 0.724660767414 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.14285714286 78% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.58251231527 28% => OK
Readability: 49.3436692506 51.9672348444 95% => OK
Elegance: 2.03529411765 1.8405768891 111% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.589470670518 0.441005458295 134% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.128976354788 0.135418324435 95% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.10530617365 0.0829849096947 127% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.546005383401 0.58762219726 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.167400181051 0.147661913831 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.251493969443 0.193483328276 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.155057655838 0.0970749176394 160% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.5048923568 0.42659136922 118% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0265231008756 0.0774707102158 34% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.458645861197 0.312017818177 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0691510808279 0.0698173142475 99% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.33743842365 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.87684729064 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.82512315271 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 6.46551724138 93% => OK
Negative topic words: 10.0 5.36822660099 186% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.82389162562 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 16.0 14.657635468 109% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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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