The council of Maple County, concerned about the county's becoming overdeveloped, is debating a proposed measure that would prevent the development of existing farmland in the county. But the council is also concerned that such a restriction, by limiting the supply of new housing, could lead to significant increases in the price of housing in the county. Proponents of the measure note that Chestnut County established a similar measure ten years ago, and its housing prices have increased only modestly since. However, opponents of the measure note that Pine County adopted restrictions on the development of new residential housing fifteen years ago, and its housing prices have since more than doubled. The council currently predicts that the proposed measure, if passed, will result in a significant increase in housing prices in Maple County.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
The argument states that the council of Maple County predicts that the houses prices will increase if the proposed measure to prevent the development of exisiting farmland has been establised. However, this development restriction could result in houses price’s increase, but to evaluate such assumption, the author of this argument should answers to some questions to investigate whether the argument prediction is valid.
The fisrt question should be answered is what the reason of increasing of the housing price? The answer of this question will provide the reader if there an inflation in the money value or it was icreasing in the actual value of the money. For example, from fifteen years age it could be to buy a house with two bed rooms and one bath costs $10,000, and nowadays the equivelant value to $ 10,000 is 20,000 which is not doubling in the house value but this increase results from an inflation. Therefore, if this is a factor for the mentioned increase that means the proposed measure wasn’t the reason and thus the argument assumption is based on unwarranted assumption.
Further, if the previous scenario is not valid and there was no inflation and the increase in housing value in Chestnut count was because of the real increasing in the actual value of money, that is also not a guarantee that the increasing results from such proposed measure. The conclusion drawn in the argument to be valid, the author should answer the following question. How many people in Chestnut county? This question is important to show if the increase was a proportional to the population increase or not. For example, if a county has 10 persons and each ive in separated house, so the number of houses should be corresponded to the number of people live in the country, but what if the country has 50 people and only 10 house, here the situation is different as the correspondence is not valid and will result in icreasing the house prices. Therefore, if the above situation is correct that makes the conclusion in the agrument significantly weakened.
Moreover, the author of the argument deduced his conclusion based on comparing between two different times. Housing increase in Chestnut county resulted after fifteen years. So, how can we compare between two time too far apart from each other.The author should answer further question about how thses housing were built? They were built from premetive bricks or have the same materials and features for the modern houses. For example, in the past the houses were being built by simple tools as well as simple materials which are not comparable to the current materials nor tools which will directly pour in increasing the house prices. Thus, the author shows un warranted assumption and a conclusion is rife with holes.
In conclusion, the argument as stands now is remarkably flawed, because the author reliance on unwarranted assumptions, and to make his argument and its conclusion vaild, shoud answer to all the mentioned questions first.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 15 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 501 350
No. of Characters: 2453 1500
No. of Different Words: 212 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.731 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.896 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.601 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 183 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 133 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 99 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 57 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.368 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.176 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.737 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.321 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.381 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.078 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 2 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 319, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... evaluate such assumption, the author of this argument should answers to some que...
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Line 2, column 385, Rule ID: CURRENCY_SPACE[1]
Message: The currency mark is usually written without any whitespace: '$10'.
Suggestion: $10
...0, and nowadays the equivelant value to $ 10,000 is 20,000 which is not doubling in ...
^^^^
Line 3, column 568, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: I've
...le, if a county has 10 persons and each ive in separated house, so the number of ho...
^^^
Line 3, column 734, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'house' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'houses'.
Suggestion: houses
...f the country has 50 people and only 10 house, here the situation is different as the...
^^^^^
Line 4, column 244, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
... two time too far apart from each other.The author should answer further question a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, moreover, so, therefore, thus, well, apart from, for example, in conclusion, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 30.0 16.3942115768 183% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2510.0 2260.96107784 111% => OK
No of words: 499.0 441.139720559 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03006012024 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72634191566 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68104457255 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.450901803607 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 755.1 705.55239521 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 78.1742141389 57.8364921388 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.105263158 119.503703932 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2631578947 23.324526521 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.68421052632 5.70786347227 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.0950922580673 0.218282227539 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0391640571529 0.0743258471296 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0731970435081 0.0701772020484 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0644854889589 0.128457276422 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0749930483276 0.0628817314937 119% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.3799401198 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 98.500998004 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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