The business manager of Happy Pancake House, in his memorandum states that to save cost of purchasing butter and increase the profitability, butter should be replaced by margarine in the southeast and northeast. The manager has arrived at this conclusion based on the set of responses the restaurant received in the southwest, where apparently a large fraction of customers have ‘not complained’ about the replacement. However, in order to check how correctly this judgment extrapolates to the current scenario, it is essential to answer the aforementioned questions.
Firstly, the memorandum mentions that ‘only’ 2% of the people have complained about the supplantation of butter with margarine. However, it does not necessarily imply that the rest 98% of the people are actually happy and satisfied with this change. What if the other 98% of the people are actually dissatisfied but refrain from launching a complaint since it’s a tedious process. The people who have not complained about the issue should not be confused with those who are actually elated with the change. If such deceptive statistics as mentioned in the above example are used to arrive at a conclusion, it may lead to premature results.
Secondly, even if we assume the question mentioned in the above paragraph to be true, are the food choices in the southwestern United States the same as their southeastern and northeastern counterparts? What if the people in southwestern United States actually have a liking to margarine but the northeastern people actually love butter? It could be argued that what if the people in northeastern and southeastern United States are actually intolerant to margarine consumption? Extrapolating the results from two distinct regions could actually prove to be risky in the long term and could affect business profits.
Lastly, if the replacement of butter with margarine is a panacea that could transcend profit, why are not the competitors doing the same? For instance, what if the competitors actually shift to margarine instead of butter? Do the restaurant owners actually have enough resources or sufficient margarine production to support the 3 outlets? Even if there are actually sufficient resources, are they lucrative enough to survive in the competitive market? If you assume this to be true and replace the use of butter, it could lead to the burnout of margarine resources or even cause the profits from all the stores collectively to soar. It is, however, always advised not to put all your ‘eggs’ in one basket.
Thus, to arrive at an accurate judgment based on the evidence provided above, we need more expanded statistics and scientific research that could actually prove that there is a correlation between the various outlets of the restaurant. This could help extrapolate the decision based on the performance in a single outlet, if there is actually a dependency that proves so. Therefore, once these questions are addressed it could become far simpler and more rewarding to take a major supplanting decision.
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 488 350
No. of Characters: 2494 1500
No. of Different Words: 229 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.7 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.111 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.914 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 191 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 144 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 113 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 79 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.238 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.443 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.952 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.32 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.548 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.152 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, apparently, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2577.0 2260.96107784 114% => OK
No of words: 488.0 441.139720559 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28073770492 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70007681154 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00545322589 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 204.123752495 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487704918033 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 809.1 705.55239521 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.0569888818 57.8364921388 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.714285714 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2380952381 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.71428571429 5.70786347227 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.205410754456 0.218282227539 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0616509810302 0.0743258471296 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0668900957871 0.0701772020484 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115751852747 0.128457276422 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0812595192154 0.0628817314937 129% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.3550499002 82% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.64 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 98.500998004 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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