The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a Batavia newspaper:
The department of agriculture in Batavia reports that the number of dairy farms throughout the country is now 25 percent greater than it was 10 years ago. During this same time period, however, the price of milk at the local Excello Food Market has increased from $1.50 to over $3.00 per gallon. To prevent farmers from continuing to receive excessive profits on an apparently increased supply of milk, the Batavia government should begin to regulate retail milk prices. Such regulation is necessary to ensure both lower prices and an adequate supply of milk for consumers."
The editor of a Batavia newspaper recommended that in order to prevent farmers making excess profit, the Government should regulate the retail milk prices. In making this recommendation the report relies on the increase in number of dairy farms over the ten years period and the milk prices at the local Excello Food market that has increased from $1.50 to over $3.00 per gallon during the last 10 years. The recommendation has not been corroborated by statistical data, that's why the recommendation made by the editor is not convincing and relevant and the government should not intervene in the milk market.
First of all, the price of milk has been determined in the market based on the demand and supply of that product. Over the 10 years period, the number of dairy farms has been increased and the demand of milk also increased. In order to meet the increased demand the number of dairy farms should definitely increased, otherwise the price of milk would go beyond the purchasing power of common people. The report also said that the price of milk at local Excello market has been increased from $1.50 to $3.00, it only mentioned the price at a certain location/area, it might not reflect the price at the whole country. It might happen that the price in other parts of the country might not increased like Excello market. The government should not regulate the milk market based on the incomplete information.
Secondly, the report only mentioned the price of one commodity that is the price of milk. It does not have any information about overall price changes in Batavia. It might happen the overall price level in the economy has increased, and then the cost of producing milk has also increased. So, for reflecting the overall price changes and making profit, the price level of milk should also increase, otherwise the farmers will incur loss. So without any specific information about overall price level in Batavia, we are not certain whether the dairy farms are making any excessive profit or not.
Thirdly, the report does not consider the opportunity cost in making dairy farms. We have limited resources and we have to meet up our unlimited want with these limited resources. It might be true that the dairy farmers have sacrificed the production of other agriculture goods for producing milk. The farmers have to produce grass for feeding the cows by sacrificing the production of agriculture foods. If the government regulate the retail price of milk without depth analysis and based on incomplete information, it might negatively affect the demand and supply of milk. Due to government intervention, the farmers might shift from dairy farms to another sector, which will result, into decline of supply of milk and it leads to appreciation of milk price.
In conclusion, the recommendation of the daily newspaper for government intervention in retail price of milk is not well supported by statistical point of view. Without analyzing the effect of government intervention on milk production and on its prices, the government should not implement such recommendation which might affect the supply and demand of milk negatively. Before implementing the writers recommendation, I would like to have more information and statistical analysis regarding the supply and demand of milk at Batavia.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 547 350
No. of Characters: 2714 1500
No. of Different Words: 190 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.836 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.962 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.685 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 188 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 124 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 86 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 74 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.783 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.156 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.522 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.377 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.377 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.186 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 468, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
... been corroborated by statistical data, thats why the recommendation made by the edit...
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Line 2, column 306, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'should' requires the base form of the verb: 'increase'
Suggestion: increase
...number of dairy farms should definitely increased, otherwise the price of milk would go b...
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Line 3, column 595, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...are making any excessive profit or not. Thirdly, the report does not consider th...
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Line 4, column 762, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...it leads to appreciation of milk price. In conclusion, the recommendation of the...
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Line 5, column 397, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'writers'' or 'writer's'?
Suggestion: writers'; writer's
...ilk negatively. Before implementing the writers recommendation, I would like to have mo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, well, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 87.0 55.5748502994 157% => OK
Nominalization: 28.0 16.3942115768 171% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2768.0 2260.96107784 122% => OK
No of words: 546.0 441.139720559 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0695970696 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83390555256 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7771124537 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.377289377289 0.468620217663 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 859.5 705.55239521 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 14.0 8.76447105788 160% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.0243873503 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.347826087 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7391304348 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5652173913 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.101768108912 0.218282227539 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0405185521496 0.0743258471296 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0474335748638 0.0701772020484 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0680887717233 0.128457276422 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0396285783914 0.0628817314937 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => 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: 12.42 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 12.3882235529 153% => 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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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