A folk remedy for insomnia, the scent in lavender flowers, has now been proved effective. In a recent study, 30 volunteers with chronic insomnia slept each night for three weeks on lavender-scented pillows in a controlled room where their sleep was monito

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A folk remedy for insomnia, the scent in lavender flowers, has now been proved effective. In a recent study, 30 volunteers with chronic insomnia slept each night for three weeks on lavender-scented pillows in a controlled room where their sleep was monitored. During the first week, volunteers continued to take their usual sleeping medication. They slept soundly but wakened feeling tired. During the second week, the volunteers discontinued their medication. As a result, they slept less soundly than the previous week and felt even more tired. During the third week, the volunteers slept longer and more soundly than in the previous two weeks. This shows that over a short period of time lavender cures insomnia.

The author's claim regarding the folk remedy for insomnia, the scent in lavender flowers. According to the author lavender cures insomnia in a very short period is quite inconceivable. As found in a study where 30 volunteers with chronic insomnia slept each night for three weeks on lavender-scented pillows in a controlled room where sleep was monitored, During these three weeks different experiment were performed with there sleep and results were observed.During the first week, volunteers continued to take their usual sleeping medication. They slept soundly but wakened feeling tired. During the second week, the volunteers discontinued their medication. As a result, they slept less soundly than the previous week and felt even more tired. During the third week, the volunteers slept longer and more soundly than in the previous two weeks.

Author claim that lavender scented pillow cures chronic insomnia based on a study is absurd, there is no authentic proof for the study and there are no mention of the type of people, there age, gender or the duration of time since when they were suffering from insomnia. The study might we be applicable for a certain group of people and might not be for the other group of people suffering from insomnia. Hence to come on a lucid result we need more information about the volunteers.

Along with this author's statement that it cures insomnia just because those 30 volunteers had a sound sleep in the third week is a false genralisation since as they continued there medication in the third week while discotinuing it in the second, there is a high passuibilty that because they were already sleep deprived last week and contuing there medication helped them sleep well in the next week and the lavender scented pillow had no major cause in this sound sleep. Along with that just because they slept better than the last two weeks never implied that there insomnia is cured and they wont suffer any more in the future.

Therfore it can't be completely stated for sure that the lavender-scented pillows are a certain cure for insomina and also we need to study more deeply and there should be more number of experiments on different kind of people before any concerte results can be infered.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, regarding, second, so, then, third, well, while, kind of, as a result

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1870.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 375.0 441.139720559 85% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98666666667 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6190223791 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 204.123752495 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.469333333333 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 569.7 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => 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: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 126.251978718 57.8364921388 218% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 143.846153846 119.503703932 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.8461538462 23.324526521 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.53846153846 5.70786347227 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.406835623311 0.218282227539 186% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.145795943121 0.0743258471296 196% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.131665926987 0.0701772020484 188% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.234800762474 0.128457276422 183% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.133166657028 0.0628817314937 212% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 48.3550499002 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 98.500998004 72% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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 -- 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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