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 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 council of Maple country is debating on a proposal to prevent development of the existing farmland, due to the concern of overdevelopment of the nation. The debate is based on whether the proposal will lead to significant increase in the housing prices or not. Based on the arguments presented by the supporters and opponents of the proposal, the council presently believes that housing price will significantly increase if the proposal is implemented. A couple of questins need to be answered before reaching to conclusion on the prediction made by the council.
The opponents of the proposed measure cites the example of Pine country, where the similar measure was implemented fifteen years ago has lead to double the cost of housing since then. However, the increase in the price and implementation of the ban maybe mere coincident. The price of the housing may have increased due to various other factors, which need to be eliminated to reach to the conclusion that the price increased due to implementation of the measure. Firstly, was the proposed measure actually implemented in the Pine country. If the proposed measure was never implemented at ground level, having or not such measure would make no difference, as houses kept on being built even when measure was officially implemented. Thus attributing the rise in housing price with proposed measure is fallacious. The same question arises for the Chestnut country.
Secondly, comes the question of the demand. It is important to learn about the demand for the housing in past fifteen years in Pine country and for past ten years in Chestnut country. The rise in the housing price in Pine country may be due to surge in population from higher fertility rate or increase in immigration due to government's policy shift. The increase in the population will lead to higher demand for the housing and similarly other commodities and will lead to surge in pricing. Similarly, the rise in the economy affects the purchasing power of the poeple and that leads to rise in the price. The other economic factors as easy home loans can also create impact. Thus, it is important to understand how the economy has behaved to discern what actually lead to rise in prices. Similarly, it is important ot learn about the population change of the Chestnut country, it may happen that the popluation would have decreased due to bad political scenario in the nation, or better opportunity in other countries have made people to migrate. The deacrese in population will lower the demand for the houses, and thus limit the increase or can lead to decrease in the housing prices. The economic slowdown due to failure of one of prominent sectors in the country can inhibit the purchasing power of peole, leading to limited increase in housing prices. Thus, it is imortant to learn about the population, economy, and other factors that influence the demand for the houses.
It is also important to learn about the status of the availaility of the houses prior to implementation of the proposed measure in the two countries. It may happen that there was already cruch of houses and backlog was running high for houses and implementation has worsened the scenario. While in other case it may happen that there were excess of houses built and thus when the proposed measure was implemented, the already built houses satisfied the demand for long duration, thus limiting the rise int he prices.
These questions need to answered before reaching to the conclusion, whether the prediction made by the council of the Maple country are reasonble.
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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: 26 15
No. of Words: 597 350
No. of Characters: 2930 1500
No. of Different Words: 216 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.943 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.908 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.682 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 217 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 174 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 109 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 64 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.962 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.693 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.731 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.33 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.507 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.115 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 821, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (ot) must be used with a third-person verb: 'learns'.
Suggestion: learns
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, similarly, so, then, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 98.0 55.5748502994 176% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3004.0 2260.96107784 133% => OK
No of words: 597.0 441.139720559 135% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03182579564 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.94303383012 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75884227816 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 204.123752495 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.386934673367 0.468620217663 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 947.7 705.55239521 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.76447105788 171% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 19.7664670659 132% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.8616730939 57.8364921388 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.538461538 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9615384615 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.03846153846 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => 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: 0.132477858049 0.218282227539 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0476502768616 0.0743258471296 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.079133419986 0.0701772020484 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0978580532551 0.128457276422 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0733604155364 0.0628817314937 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 98.500998004 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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