The following appeared as part of an article in a business magazine.
"A recent study rating 300 male and female Mentian advertising executives according to the average number of hours they sleep per night showed an association between the amount of sleep the executives need and the success of their firms. Of the advertising firms studied, those whose executives reported needing no more than 6 hours of sleep per night had higher profit margins and faster growth. These results suggest that if a business wants to prosper, it should hire only people who need less than 6 hours of sleep per night."
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 following argument is flawed for numerous reasons. Primarily, the argument is based on unwarranted assumption that executives sleep only 6 hours in 24 hours, rendering the main conclusion, that to prosper business should hire only people who need less than 6 hours of sleep per night.
The argument fails to provide information regarding the sleep pattern of people in a day. As per argument, firms whose executives need maximum 6 hours of sleep per night had higher profit. It is possible that, people who need only 6 hours of sleep in the night might need one or two short naps, which will reduce their work hours, and no all the businesses can afford to give nap breaks to people.
Even if people do need only 6 hours of sleep, then argument need to prove that people spend more time at work, or being more productive to help firm to grow more. If they are working more then it will benefit business, otherwise their sleep time doesn't help business.
The argument also leaves many other answered questions. Even if the firms in which executives need only 6 hours of sleep had higher profit margin and faster growth, does profit and growth only due to executives sleep less. There can be many other factors of growth. May be other team members who have big share in growth are sleeping more than 6 hours.
Finally, the argument concludes without warrant that hiring people who needs less than 6 hours of sleep will benefit each business. Even if advertising firms growth depends on executives who need less than 6 hours of sleep. It may not work for any other business, due to different kind of work and business model. May some business's executives more travel or any other physical work, and they might need more sleep.
Thus, the argument makes several unwarranted assumptions, it fails to make a convincing case that only hiring people who need less than 6 hours of sleep will make business profitable and faster growth.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 189, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[2]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
... to grow more. If they are working more then it will benefit business, otherwise the...
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Line 5, column 247, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...it business, otherwise their sleep time doesnt help business. The argument also lea...
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Line 7, column 26, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun other seems to be countable; consider using: 'many others'.
Suggestion: many others
...p business. The argument also leaves many other answered questions. Even if the firms i...
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Line 9, column 133, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[2]
Message: “Even if” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...rs of sleep will benefit each business. Even if advertising firms growth depends on exe...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, if, may, regarding, so, then, thus, in conclusion, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 19.6327345309 41% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.9520958084 170% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 28.8173652695 49% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 55.5748502994 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1610.0 2260.96107784 71% => OK
No of words: 336.0 441.139720559 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.79166666667 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28139028586 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.3628403365 2.78398813304 85% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 204.123752495 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.464285714286 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 474.3 705.55239521 67% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.321482358 57.8364921388 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.625 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5625 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.173561226063 0.218282227539 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0754190103448 0.0743258471296 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0532733606387 0.0701772020484 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114418078274 0.128457276422 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0419152772269 0.0628817314937 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 48.3550499002 139% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.5 12.5979740519 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.17 8.32208582834 86% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 98.500998004 54% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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 -- 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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