The following appeared in a letter from a homeowner to a friend.
"Of the two leading real estate firms in our town—Adams Realty and Fitch Realty—Adams Realty is clearly superior. Adams has 40 real estate agents; in contrast, Fitch has 25, many of whom work only part-time. Moreover, Adams' revenue last year was twice as high as that of Fitch and included home sales that averaged $168,000, compared to Fitch's $144,000. Homes listed with Adams sell faster as well: ten years ago I listed my home with Fitch, and it took more than four months to sell; last year, when I sold another home, I listed it with Adams, and it took only one month. Thus, if you want to sell your home quickly and at a good price, you should use Adams Realty."
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 argument is basically based on the records of two companies in selling homes in a particular town. Due to such records a friend is advising a homeowner to sell his home through Adams Realty and not throuh Fitch Realty in order to sell it faster and at a good price. So to make a final conclusion it would be necessary to understand the assumption the friend is making and how true do they stand. Initially the argument looks quite valid but as you look deeper various problems can be seen in it.
The friend makes a claim that Adams Realty is superior Fitch Realty on the basis of various data that he mentions in the argument. But how do we understand that the data mentioned is true or holds any significance as a source or any formal institution providing such data has not been mentioned throughout the argument. So the whole argument is just based on the random statistical data which might not even be true leading us to not believe in the claim made by the friend.
The argument also believes that the numbers of employee are directly linked to the success of the real estate firms which may not be true in many cases. Even if there are many agents working for a firm we cannot assume that all of them will be competent and help in the success of the firm. All of them might not even be working diligently to help the firm maintain its reputation while in case of Fitch Realty even though there are fewer agents who are involved with the firm they might be working to their full potential so that it can help the firm in achieving greater heights.
The Freind also states a scenario which is ten years old. During the ten years there might have been ample amount of changes that would have happened with the real estate industry in the town. So it would not be possible to correlate the selling of the house ten years ago to the current trend which is going on in the market. Hence this assumption that since a house was sold in four months ten years before and now it was sold in a month with a different real estate firm, it was the ability of the firm to sell it quicker would not be accurate.
Hence as we have found so many underlying assumptions which do not hold true, it would be wise to first undersatnd the argument and then logically deduce those assumptions in order to find out if the argument is true or no. In this case since the sources of the facts are unknown, the direct correlation between number of agents and success of the firm is not possible and the changing real estate market in ten years leads us to make a decision that it would be logical to not support this argument.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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The argument is basically based on the r...
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...various problems can be seen in it. The friend makes a claim that Adams Real...
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...ieve in the claim made by the friend. The argument also believes that the...
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...l it quicker would not be accurate. Hence as we have found so many underlyin...
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...logical to not support this argument.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'hence', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'so', 'then', 'while', 'in many cases']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.207509881423 0.25644967241 81% => OK
Verbs: 0.177865612648 0.15541462614 114% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0889328063241 0.0836205057962 106% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0612648221344 0.0520304965353 118% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0474308300395 0.0272364105082 174% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.132411067194 0.125424944231 106% => OK
Participles: 0.0513833992095 0.0416121511921 123% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.30148608927 2.79052419416 82% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0316205533597 0.026700313972 118% => OK
Particles: 0.00197628458498 0.001811407834 109% => OK
Determiners: 0.122529644269 0.113004496875 108% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0296442687747 0.0255425247493 116% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0177865612648 0.0127820249294 139% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2664.0 2731.13054187 98% => OK
No of words: 486.0 446.07635468 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.48148148148 6.12365571057 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69525374022 4.57801047555 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.257201646091 0.378187486979 68% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.17695473251 0.287650121315 62% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.121399176955 0.208842608468 58% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0720164609053 0.135150697306 53% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30148608927 2.79052419416 82% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 207.018472906 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.434156378601 0.469332199767 93% => OK
Word variations: 48.8949260076 52.1807786196 94% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 20.039408867 80% => OK
Sentence length: 30.375 23.2022227129 131% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.0398869268 57.7814097925 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 166.5 141.986410481 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.375 23.2022227129 131% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.6875 0.724660767414 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 3.58251231527 223% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 48.070473251 51.9672348444 93% => OK
Elegance: 1.36551724138 1.8405768891 74% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.397793295327 0.441005458295 90% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.167009903166 0.135418324435 123% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.106100955705 0.0829849096947 128% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.652730762113 0.58762219726 111% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.126248797505 0.147661913831 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.18338091805 0.193483328276 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0828636253164 0.0970749176394 85% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.448044182761 0.42659136922 105% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0700593626754 0.0774707102158 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.272550592938 0.312017818177 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0319552418912 0.0698173142475 46% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.33743842365 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.87684729064 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.82512315271 62% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 6.46551724138 108% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 5.36822660099 112% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 16.0 14.657635468 109% => OK
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 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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