The following appeared as part of an article in a Dillton newspaper.
"In an effort to bring new jobs to Dillton and stimulate the city's flagging economy, Dillton's city council voted last year to lower the city's corporate tax rate by 15 percent; at the same time, the city began offering generous relocation grants to any company that would move to Dillton. Since these changes went into effect, two new factories have opened in Dillton. Although the two factories employ more than 1,000 people, the unemployment rate in Dillton remains unchanged. The only clear explanation for this is that the new factories are staffed with out-of-town workers rather than Dillton residents."
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
The article assumes that because the unemployment rate has not changed, the two newly established factories have not helped providing employment to the residents of Dillton. However, there can be alternative explanations to this scenario.
It is possible that the population of Dillton increased over the last two year. Because of the increase in population, even when the two companies provided employment to more than 1000 people, there was still an increase in number of unemployed people in the same proportion. For example, if the population of Dillton was ten thousand and 2000 of them were unemployed, the unemployment rate would be 20 percent. If the factories were formed after the increase in population of 1200 people, the employment of 1000 people would make the unemployment rate roughly the same. Hence, population increase can be an explanation to this situation.
Along with the possibility of increase in population of Dillton, one cannot rule out the chance that some other factories or offices were closed in Dillton. Even though the city council lowered corporate taxes and provided grants, there could have been other factors for the closing of factories in Dillton. For example, if there were cement factories in Dillton and if the mines near Dillton were out of Limestone, the factories in Dillton would have no option but to close or relocate themselves. In this case, despite two new companies being added and despite city providing subsidiaries, people would still be losing jobs. Therefore, the unemployment rate would still remain the same, in spite of the fact that the two new factories serve to provide employment to Dillton residents.
Finally, there is a possibility that the all the workers working in the two new factories came from the existing factories in Dillton. In this case, if there were no more people in Dillton capable of working in the factories, the other factories in Dillton would have to hire workers from outside the city. Hence, even if the people form outside the city came to Dillton, they could be going to other factories to fill in the void created by dillton residents switching to the new factories. Even in this scenario, there would be no new person in Dillton getting a job, and thus, the unemployment would not change.
Hence, there are other possible cases which can explain the situation, and therefore, it is faulty to conclude that the two new factories are not providing any employment to the residents of Dillton.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 125, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to provide' or 'provide'.
Suggestion: to provide; provide
...y established factories have not helped providing employment to the residents of Dillton....
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'finally', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'still', 'therefore', 'thus', 'for example', 'in spite of']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.25 0.25644967241 97% => OK
Verbs: 0.142543859649 0.15541462614 92% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0526315789474 0.0836205057962 63% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0416666666667 0.0520304965353 80% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0109649122807 0.0272364105082 40% => OK
Prepositions: 0.149122807018 0.125424944231 119% => OK
Participles: 0.0460526315789 0.0416121511921 111% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.72660279627 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.030701754386 0.026700313972 115% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.120614035088 0.113004496875 107% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.030701754386 0.0255425247493 120% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00438596491228 0.0127820249294 34% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2490.0 2731.13054187 91% => OK
No of words: 411.0 446.07635468 92% => OK
Chars per words: 6.05839416058 6.12365571057 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.57801047555 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.350364963504 0.378187486979 93% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.299270072993 0.287650121315 104% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.209245742092 0.208842608468 100% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.14598540146 0.135150697306 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72660279627 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 207.018472906 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.406326034063 0.469332199767 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 43.1608864602 52.1807786196 83% => OK
How many sentences: 17.0 20.039408867 85% => OK
Sentence length: 24.1764705882 23.2022227129 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.4643716659 57.7814097925 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.470588235 141.986410481 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1764705882 23.2022227129 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.647058823529 0.724660767414 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.58251231527 28% => OK
Readability: 54.1034778875 51.9672348444 104% => OK
Elegance: 2.2808988764 1.8405768891 124% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.447818788368 0.441005458295 102% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.179556430183 0.135418324435 133% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.126718396507 0.0829849096947 153% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.647427313069 0.58762219726 110% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.196903934982 0.147661913831 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.226129525067 0.193483328276 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0846491357706 0.0970749176394 87% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.534958191923 0.42659136922 125% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.135571141203 0.0774707102158 175% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.322696756233 0.312017818177 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0663835006978 0.0698173142475 95% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.33743842365 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.87684729064 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.82512315271 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 6.46551724138 108% => OK
Negative topic words: 8.0 5.36822660099 149% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 16.0 14.657635468 109% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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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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