"Medical experts say that only one-quarter of Corpora's citizens meet the current standards for adequate physical fitness, even though twenty years ago, one-half of all of Corpora's citizens met the standards as then defined. But these experts are mistaken when they suggest that spending too much time using computers has caused a decline in fitness. Since overall fitness levels are highest in regions of Corpora where levels of computer ownership are also highest, it is clear that using computers has not made citizens less physically fit. Instead, as shown by this year's unusually low expenditures on fitness-related products and services, the recent decline in the economy is most likely the cause, and fitness levels will improve when the economy does."
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 purportedly highlights that economic recession play an important role in reduction of fitness level among people at Corpora County. However, the premises upon which he puts his claim are fallacious.
First, the author of argument contends that medical experts allege that few people take advantages of fitness standards rather than twenty years ago, which half of people were saturated with fitness standards. However, it does not lend credence to the argument since it is established beyond doubt that everything is changing day in day out. Indeed, the situations and conditions were not identical in twenty years ago. Perhaps the number of population increase drastically during these years that in such case fitness standards could not be affordable. Or perhaps government provide an opportunity for people to use fitness standards in past years. It is also important to say that maybe medical experts make a mistake about using fitness standards or maybe the fitness standards are too old and people are not interested in using them.
The author also asserts that the experts offer wrong idea when they pointed out that using computers will diminish fitness level. Although it might seems tenable at face, it has some defects. One of the main, if not the only, problem with the premise is that sedentary lifestyle will cause not only decline in fitness level but also various problem such as heart disease, obesity and so forth. In fact, it has proved by scholars that spending too much time sitting in front of computers is a main reason of not using fitness standards due to the fact that people spend their precious time in social networks, playing, watch movies and so forth. Alongside that, the author does not provide any information or data to show that based on what factors experts' suggestion could not be reliable and accurate.
Finally, as set forth by the author the level of using computers is high in corpora region where the level of using fitness standards is high. Nevertheless, the rationale behind this premise could be challenged owing to the fact that computers will provide an opportunity for people to gain crowds of information about fitness. In fact, maybe they use computers in order to download fitness video programs. Moreover, perhaps people do their other works like banking transaction, book a ticket and so on, along with using fitness standards.
Having scrutinized all the premises, a logical conclusion that can be drawn is that the author has ignored the number of assumption the presence of which could strengthen the author claim.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, then, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 13.6137724551 154% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2186.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 428.0 441.139720559 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10747663551 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.548423998 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53764563796 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 204.123752495 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.516355140187 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 659.7 705.55239521 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.350905283 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.444444444 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7777777778 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.27777777778 5.70786347227 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.124954391221 0.218282227539 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0416084891613 0.0743258471296 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0377293098558 0.0701772020484 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0614558327073 0.128457276422 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0502268403476 0.0628817314937 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.3799401198 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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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