“Davis Technologies, a computer-chip maker, could solve its problem of declining sales by dropping its prices. This would make Davis better able to compete in the highly competitive computer chip market. The sales of chips would increase and this would substantially boost Davis’ market share.”
Describe how well the reasoning is in this. In the discussion be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. For example, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking and what alternative explanations or counter examples might weaken the argument’s conclusion. You may also address possible changes in the argument that would make it more logically sound and would help you to better evaluate its conclusion.
It is stated in the given prompt that Davis Technology were facing declining sales. To boost these dropped figures, they reduced the prices of their computer chips. The decision was taken for mainly three reasons - to keep up with the competitive market of computer chips; increase sales; boost market shares for Davis Technology. The statement is a plethora of unwarranted assumptions and there is the reasons why:
Firstly, there is no evidence for the fact that the dropping sales are resulted due to high prices of computer chips. There are many factors related to quality and price with availability of latest technologies that affect the sales of computer chips. The market for dynamic products like computer chips are never related to only a single factor, rather a combination of technical and economical factors altogether that decides the sales pattern. So, there is no fallacy for the fact that dropping prices would increase sales.
The second important point that, the company intends to keep up with the market of computer sales has no argument to buttress it. With no information of market trends it is difficult to accept that only dropping prices would help them substantiate the competitive market. Since both of the points mentioned above are based on mere assumptions, the claim to boost market shares for Davis Technology after their decision to drop prices would also be considered as a vague conclusion.
Another important point which is missing in the given argument is the required statistics to prove that even after dropping few prices on their product, Davis Technology would still be able to maintain their profit margin.
To sum up, the argument to drop prices could be a considerable point but without more information about the products quality, production cost, market trends, etc. it is difficult to accept any of the assumed benefits expected after it's implementation.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 391, Rule ID: THERE_S_MANY[4]
Message: Did you mean 'there are the reasons'?
Suggestion: there are the reasons
...plethora of unwarranted assumptions and there is the reasons why: Firstly, there is no evidence f...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 189, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'of the latest'.
Suggestion: of the latest
... to quality and price with availability of latest technologies that affect the sales of c...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 386, Rule ID: ECONOMICAL_ECONOMIC[1]
Message: Did you mean 'economic' (=connected with economy)?
Suggestion: economic
..., rather a combination of technical and economical factors altogether that decides the sal...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, second, so, still, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1608.0 2260.96107784 71% => OK
No of words: 309.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20388349515 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65842465459 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.511326860841 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 498.6 705.55239521 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.2325950899 57.8364921388 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.692307692 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7692307692 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.53846153846 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.328869154407 0.218282227539 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.117515401262 0.0743258471296 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0311713600293 0.0701772020484 44% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17067333527 0.128457276422 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.063456217058 0.0628817314937 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 98.500998004 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 391, Rule ID: THERE_S_MANY[4]
Message: Did you mean 'there are the reasons'?
Suggestion: there are the reasons
...plethora of unwarranted assumptions and there is the reasons why: Firstly, there is no evidence f...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 189, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'of the latest'.
Suggestion: of the latest
... to quality and price with availability of latest technologies that affect the sales of c...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 386, Rule ID: ECONOMICAL_ECONOMIC[1]
Message: Did you mean 'economic' (=connected with economy)?
Suggestion: economic
..., rather a combination of technical and economical factors altogether that decides the sal...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, second, so, still, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1608.0 2260.96107784 71% => OK
No of words: 309.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20388349515 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65842465459 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.511326860841 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 498.6 705.55239521 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.2325950899 57.8364921388 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.692307692 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7692307692 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.53846153846 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.328869154407 0.218282227539 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.117515401262 0.0743258471296 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0311713600293 0.0701772020484 44% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17067333527 0.128457276422 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.063456217058 0.0628817314937 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 98.500998004 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.