The following appeared in a health magazine published in Corpora.
"Medical experts say that only one-quarter of Corpora's citizens meet the current standards for adequate physical fitness, even though twenty years ago, one-half of all of Corpora's citizens met the standards as then defined. But these experts are mistaken when they suggest that spending too much time using computers has caused a decline in fitness. Since overall fitness levels are highest in regions of Corpora where levels of computer ownership are also highest, it is clear that using computers has not made citizens less physically fit. Instead, as shown by this year's unusually low expenditures on fitness-related products and services, the recent decline in the economy is most likely the cause, and fitness levels will improve when the economy does."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The findings of the medical experts stated in the magazine article appear dubious. It seems to not have considered a couple of factors driving fitness in Corpora. And it makes predictions on assumptions relating to the economy which is likely to be false.
The statement comparing one- fourth of Corpora's current population with one-half of the population twenty years ago is ambiguous because the exact population in the span is not known. If the population of Corpora has grown over twenty years, which is likely to happen considering the global population increase as we know and the argument hinting at the use of computers in the region, then it may imply that the count of citizens qualifying as fit now could be greater than the count twenty years ago. Therefore, an appropriate numerical basis needs to be established instead of confounding fractions.
The medical experts have tried to draw a correlation between the strength of computer owners and their fitness. This correlation between computer owners and fitness doesn't imply causation. An alternate situation is possible that the regions with higher computer ownership are more well off economically and more urban with adequate fitness facilities. This implies that the citizens can afford fitness improvement practices like gym protein diet, healthy fruit juices and all the like, along with the enough availability of the same. On the other hand, regions with lower computer ownership might be comprised more of people who are not economically well off to afford or have no access to- fitness improvement methods.
Moreover, the experts' assumption that low expenditure on fitness-related products in the current year cannot necessarily be based on the decline in the economy. The Internet is a source of free fitness-related videos, articles on a good diet, and often imparts wisdom on how one could become fit without spending much. The rise in the number of such cogent sources on the internet could have been a cause for the low spendings on fitness products.
The argument is based on disputable assumptions and excludes hidden factors such as the quantification of the population and the way of living of computer owners in different regions. Also, the prediction of improvement of fitness levels with a rising economy cannot be guaranteed.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ion between computer owners and fitness doesnt imply causation. An alternate situation...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'experts'' or 'expert's'?
Suggestion: experts'; expert's
...s improvement methods. Moreover, the experts assumption that low expenditure on fitn...
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... low spendings on fitness products. The argument is based on disputable assumpt...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, may, moreover, so, then, therefore, well, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 28.8173652695 38% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1958.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 373.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24932975871 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39467950092 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86772053348 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536193029491 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 612.9 705.55239521 87% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.2523015639 57.8364921388 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.375 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3125 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.875 5.70786347227 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => 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: 0.133129507478 0.218282227539 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0430919016611 0.0743258471296 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0528789591455 0.0701772020484 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0722300674905 0.128457276422 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0606809035849 0.0628817314937 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 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: 13.47 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 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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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.