The following appeared on the Website Science News Today.
"In a recent survey of more than 5,000 adolescents, the teens who reported eating the most meals with their families were the least likely to use illegal drugs, tobacco, or alcohol. Family meals were also associated with higher grades, better self-esteem, and lower rates of depression. Almost 30 percent of the teens said they ate at least seven meals per week with their families. Clearly, having a high number of family meals keeps teens from engaging in bad behaviors."
The paragraph here is an article appeared on a website which was a survey of 5000 adolescents. In this survey teens were questioned about the number of meals they had with their families. From this information they had made a study on their grades, depression and self-esteem with respect to the time they spent with their families. Under those conditions they concluded that having more family meals would keep teens from involving in bad behaviours.
Firstly this argument is not proper because the article considers that only family meals stop students from engaging in undesirable actions. there are many other factors which affect the general demeanor of youngsters. What if the teen had friends who were used to taking drugs? wouldn't it influence him to take them? Almost many actions done by youth are majorly due to peer pressure. Even though teens like this have many family meals it wouldn't stop them from using drugs.
Passage here also states that 30 percent of the teens said that they had at least seven meals with their household. Yet it did not give information about the grades or drug usage of those youngsters. The argument does not specify that these teens were having more grades with which they cannot conclude that having more family meals is beneficial
Although it was given that the survey was conducted for more than 5000 people. Clearly there is ambiguity about the number of people taking part in the survey. how many people were actually taken for the survey, was it 5000 or 10000 or more than that?. In reality any survey is considered legitimate only if it is taken for larger set of people. Furthermore if we consider this survey was conducted for only thousands of people the data cannot be truly relied on as they do not represent the entire population.
Finally I feel that this argument would have been more cogent if they had given details like the exact number of people they had surveyed on, the surroundings of the kids, their lifestyle and more precise information about how the survey was conducted.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, so, at least, i feel, with respect to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 28.8173652695 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1730.0 2260.96107784 77% => OK
No of words: 350.0 441.139720559 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94285714286 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32530772707 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.36102537393 2.78398813304 85% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.511428571429 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 518.4 705.55239521 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 54.9236563303 57.8364921388 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.1111111111 119.503703932 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4444444444 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.27777777778 5.70786347227 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 5.25449101796 228% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.259569293917 0.218282227539 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0862201505702 0.0743258471296 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0704518134381 0.0701772020484 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13187587176 0.128457276422 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0705196025184 0.0628817314937 112% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 98.500998004 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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