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 author of the argument claim that firms should hire only people, who need less than 6 hours of sleep per night because they will be beneficial to prosper the business. To bolster his argument author has provided the evidence that the study was conducted with male and female Mentian advertising executives has come to the conclusion that, people who need less than 6 hours of sleep had higher profit margins and faster growth. This argument seems to be valid at first glance, but when we try to analyze it in greater detail it is flawed.
Firstly, the author has mentioned a study of 300 male and female Mentian advertising executives. This argument is flawed in itself because the 300 is not a valid number. The author has failed to mention the 300 people out of what. It might be possible that if there are lots of people say, ten thousand then the 300 is very less number as compared to ten thousand people. Also, it is equally possible that the sleeping hours of different people are different and abnormal. Mostly, any human being needs sleep of at least 8 hours, also it is natural to have 300 people who sleep less than 6 hours.
Secondly, the author assumes that the people who sleep for less than 6 hours have higher profit margins and faster growth because they work for more hours than other people who sleep for more than 6 hours. It is possible that the people who sleep for less than 6 hours have a sleep deprivation problem, as a result, they are sleeping less than 6 hours. Also, the sleep of fewer than 8 hours causes fatigue and anxiety in human beings it is equally possible that this will affect there performance. Moreover, It is equally possible that this person has to commute for more time to reach to their firms, hence they are sleeping for less time.
Finally, the author concludes that to prosper their business they should hire people who sleep less than 6 hours. This argument is flawed because the other factors are also responsible for the success of the firm, such as the mental abilities of the employees, working schedules of firms, grasping the power of employees, ability to get innovative ideas for firms, etc. For instance, the person who sleeps for 9 hours can be very productive after sleep so he can work better than the other employees.
In conclusion, the author's argument is flawed because of some unstated assumptions. The author should consider other factors such as the working ability of the employee that is responsible for the growth of the firm to achieve success rather than sleeping habits of people, before reaching to conclusion that they should hire only people who need less than 6 hours of sleep per night.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 500 350
No. of Characters: 2301 1500
No. of Different Words: 196 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.729 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.602 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.23 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 161 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 100 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 27 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.316 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.198 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.684 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.384 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.615 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.179 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 20, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, hence, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, as for, as to, at least, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 13.6137724551 162% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 28.8173652695 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2362.0 2260.96107784 104% => OK
No of words: 500.0 441.139720559 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.724 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72870804502 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31265302196 2.78398813304 83% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.414 0.468620217663 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 693.0 705.55239521 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.1408282109 57.8364921388 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.1 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.95 5.70786347227 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.143836400154 0.218282227539 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0587196288825 0.0743258471296 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0514826525185 0.0701772020484 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0841873839243 0.128457276422 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0493259392577 0.0628817314937 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.02 48.3550499002 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 12.5979740519 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 98.500998004 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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