The following appeared in a memorandum from the owner of Movies Galore, a chain of video rental stores.
“In order to reverse the recent decline in our profits, we must reduce operating expenses at Movies Galore’s ten video rental stores. Since we are famous for our special bargains, raising our rental prices is not a viable way to improve profits Last month our store in downtown Marston significantly decreased its operating expenses by closing at 6:00 PM rather than 9:00 PM and by reducing its stock by eliminating all movies released more than five years ago. Therefore, in order to increase profits without jeopardizing our reputation for offering great movies at low prices, we recommend implementing similar changes in our other nine Movies Galore stores”.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be addressed in order to decide whether implementing the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result and explain how the answers to those questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The new corporate strategie suggested by the owner of Movies Galore is not based on sound analysis of the facts presented in the passage. Therefore, it is questionable that the suggested measures would have the desired outcome. For this conclusion to be valid, we would need further clarification.
First of all we are not given information about the full consequences of the newly implemented measures for the store in downton Marston. While it is mentioned, that the store significantly decreased its operating expenses, we are not informed about the consequences these actions had on revenue. It is reasonable to assume, that closing three hours earlier and reducing the number of movies available has a major effect on the income the store generates. For this new policy to be overall profitable, the decrease in operating expenses would have to outweight the potential reduction of income. In order to make this conclusion, the owner would need quantitative information on both the revenue and the costs.
Secondly, the time frame presented is relatively short. It is highly critical to translate this one-month effect to a general trend. The new policy could habe been implemented in a month where expenses are generally low because of a large number of holidays. For reasonable inference, we would need a longer observation.
This brings us to our next point. We are not given information on the measure of comparison or the order of maginitude, when the owner speaks of a "substantial" decrease in costs. The validity of his conclusion depends on the fit of the comparison. The new policy could habe been implemented in a month, where expenses are generally low because of a large number of holidays. On the other hand, he could compare different years, where other factors than his newly implemented measures could influence the observation.
Lastly, we have to question the hasty translation of the results for the one store in downton Marston to all other nine Movies Galore stores. The owner does not provide further information on the similarities and differences between his ten stores. The store mentioned in the memorandum could be fairly exceptional, wheras the other stores operate in completely different settings. They could be confronted with different competition, customers or even inventory. With a more detailed analysis of such differences between the stores, the owner could make a more educated decision on the effect his measures would have on his business.
These points illustrate further answers that have to be provided, for the recommendation to be likely to generate the desired results.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 423 350
No. of Characters: 2152 1500
No. of Different Words: 192 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.535 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.087 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.852 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 154 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 124 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 93 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 66 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.391 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.432 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.261 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.29 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.522 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.132 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 232, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...e expenses are generally low because of a large number of holidays. For reasonable inference, we ...
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Line 7, column 146, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...of maginitude, when the owner speaks of a 'substantial' decrease in cos...
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Line 7, column 359, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...e expenses are generally low because of a large number of holidays. On the other hand, he could c...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2227.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 423.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26477541371 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53508145475 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06387903822 2.78398813304 110% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 204.123752495 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.456264775414 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 720.9 705.55239521 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 4.96107784431 282% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.8902504281 57.8364921388 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.8260869565 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3913043478 23.324526521 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.91304347826 5.70786347227 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.67664670659 278% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.149540063003 0.218282227539 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.043970874344 0.0743258471296 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0450501593322 0.0701772020484 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0720946456589 0.128457276422 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0415323868563 0.0628817314937 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 98.500998004 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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