The following appeared in a letter from the owner of the Sunnyside Towers apartment building to its manager.
One month ago, all the showerheads on the first five floors of Sunnyside Towers were modified to restrict the water flow to approximately 1/3 of its original force. Although actual readings of water usage before and after the adjustment are not yet available, the change will obviously result in a considerable savings for Sunnyside Corporation, since the corporation must pay for water each month. Except for a few complaints about low water pressure, no problems with showers has been reported since the adjustment. Clearly, restricting water flow throughout all the 20 floors of Sunnyside Towers will increase our profits further.
It seems that the above passage has some unwarranted assumptions, that they are needed to be checked whether is it a good idea to decrease the water flow for the apartment or not.
First of all, the author says that to use the shower with modification to restrict the water flow to approximately 1/3 for a water flow of shower can cause lower usage of water and reducing the cost of water bills. There is no reliable evidence for proving this argument. For example, people in the apartments can stay under a shower for the longer time than the past to compensate this lower pressure, so the solution based on using the water in the same time by people.
Furthermore, the argument depends a weak assumption is that a few complaints about low water pressure, since the number of users and complaint users is unspecific. For instance, when the number of complaints is two from 6 users, this percent is very high and cannot consider as few complaints, but this number is two from 30 users can be assumed as few complaints.
Another thing that bothers me is that the owners must pay the same amount of bill for each month according to their previous contract with the former situation, not this situation that they must use new showerheads, so I think this immoral rule for users to use lower water to increase profits for the corporation. In my opinion, after a specific time, all users will be aware of this deception from their corporation, so they have many complaints not only their lower pressure but also their money.
Although the passage has some intuitive ideas about decreasing amount of water and its cost, some flawed assumptions pop up to mind about the argument that must be reconsidered.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 9 15
No. of Words: 299 350
No. of Characters: 1372 1500
No. of Different Words: 153 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.158 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.589 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.502 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 77 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 60 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 46 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 27 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 33.222 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.65 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.401 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.748 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.068 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, if, so, another thing, for example, for instance, i think, first of all, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1407.0 2260.96107784 62% => OK
No of words: 298.0 441.139720559 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.72147651007 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60612115671 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.543624161074 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 437.4 705.55239521 62% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 19.7664670659 46% => 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: 33.0 22.8473053892 144% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 62.4321854317 57.8364921388 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 156.333333333 119.503703932 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.1111111111 23.324526521 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.0 5.70786347227 228% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.109110857027 0.218282227539 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0486351137159 0.0743258471296 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.04832245854 0.0701772020484 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0609022822808 0.128457276422 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0327015534466 0.0628817314937 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.4 14.3799401198 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.44 48.3550499002 96% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.197005988 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.69 12.5979740519 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 98.500998004 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 11.1389221557 136% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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