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.
In the argument the author has cited some facts and comes to the conclusion that if a business wants to prosper, it should hire only people who need less than 6 hours of sleep per night. However, the argument is rife with holes and unwarranted assumptions, and hence, not string enough to buttress the precede conclusion.First of all, the argument is based on a questionable assumption that the survey is reliable. Since no evidence is offered to substantiate this assumption, the survey methodology might be problematic. For example, we are not informed whether these firms in this study were comprehensive enough in order to draw the association. If each of them has high profit than those not been involved, then for any advertising executives studied,no mater how much time he or she had spent in sleep, their company's profit correspondingly would be always 'high profit'.
Additionally, the assumption is untenable that the executives who reported need no more than 6 hours of sleep per night were representative of the executives generally. The author fails to provide any evidence about the percentage of these executives. Perhaps there was just only one in 300. If this is the case the author's conclusion would be undermined.
Finally, the author has further set his conclusion on the basis of that hiring people who only need less than 6 hours of sleep would make the firm prosper by itself. Yet no evidence is offered to substantiate this assumption. A myriad of factors other than sleep time, including the personal ability and the market situation, even government policy, might just as likely be the cause of prospering business. Without ruling out these and other possible causes, the author cannot justifiably assert that hiring only people who need less than 6 hours of sleep per night could make business prosperous.
To recapitulate, it is clear that there are still some unexplored avenues in the argument due to which the conclusion seems untenable. It would be wise to address those areas prior to setting any firm conclusion on the matter.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 299, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...nd hence, not string enough to buttress the precede conclusion.First of all, the argument i...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 322, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: First
...ough to buttress the precede conclusion.First of all, the argument is based on a ques...
^^^^^
Line 1, column 755, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , no
...n for any advertising executives studied,no mater how much time he or she had spent...
^^^
Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'finally', 'first', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'for example', 'first of all']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.215384615385 0.25644967241 84% => OK
Verbs: 0.158974358974 0.15541462614 102% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0820512820513 0.0836205057962 98% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0589743589744 0.0520304965353 113% => OK
Pronouns: 0.025641025641 0.0272364105082 94% => OK
Prepositions: 0.120512820513 0.125424944231 96% => OK
Participles: 0.0461538461538 0.0416121511921 111% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.99441045349 2.79052419416 107% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0282051282051 0.026700313972 106% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.128205128205 0.113004496875 113% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0230769230769 0.0255425247493 90% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0153846153846 0.0127820249294 120% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2088.0 2731.13054187 76% => OK
No of words: 342.0 446.07635468 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.10526315789 6.12365571057 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.57801047555 94% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.324561403509 0.378187486979 86% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.245614035088 0.287650121315 85% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.19298245614 0.208842608468 92% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.140350877193 0.135150697306 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99441045349 2.79052419416 107% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 207.018472906 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.538011695906 0.469332199767 115% => OK
Word variations: 57.7907128649 52.1807786196 111% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 20.039408867 75% => OK
Sentence length: 22.8 23.2022227129 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.4223652485 57.7814097925 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.2 141.986410481 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8 23.2022227129 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.733333333333 0.724660767414 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.14285714286 78% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 47.3614035088 51.9672348444 91% => OK
Elegance: 1.56842105263 1.8405768891 85% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.400291309992 0.441005458295 91% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.105706418641 0.135418324435 78% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0868118370035 0.0829849096947 105% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.543803871263 0.58762219726 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.186331251128 0.147661913831 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.170901254406 0.193483328276 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0929200606738 0.0970749176394 96% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.405630952724 0.42659136922 95% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.144707451159 0.0774707102158 187% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.29034154885 0.312017818177 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0873967926448 0.0698173142475 125% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.33743842365 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.87684729064 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.82512315271 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 6.46551724138 93% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 5.36822660099 130% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 14.657635468 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
---------------------
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.
---------------------
Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.