A new medical test that allows the early detection of a particular disease will prevent the deaths of people all over the world who would otherwise die from the disease. The test has extremely been effective in allowing doctors to diagnose the disease six moths to a year before it would have been spotted by conventional means. as soon as we can institute this test as routine procedure in hospitals around the would, the death rate would plumment.
The following argument is flawed for various reasons. Primarily, it is basefd on unwarranted assumption that early detection of the disease will prevent death of people all over the world, rendering its main conclusion that death will plummet invalid.
Although early detection of a disease is crucial in the pursuit of saving lives, it is not the definitive solution to curing the disease. There are other necessary steps like subjecting patients to treatment that will eradicate the disease, and in turn save the life of the patient. The argument greatly leans on this assumption making it baseless.
Further, the argument does not clearly state the cost of the test. Yet it suggests that the test will help save live all over the world. The world's countries are diverse and their challenges vary. In some poor countries, the availability of social amenities such as hospitals is wanting. In such cases then, how will the test be undertaken. in addition, the affordability is not stated, hence whether the test will be available for all remains uncertain. In that respect, the argument cannot fully be taken into account.
Tests are interpreted differently. A doctor may carry out the test and misinterpret its results; the patient on this regard may also ignore the treatment. In so doing, patients suffering from the disease will surely die. It is also worth mentioning that discoveries take time to be implemented, even so, the doctors all over the globe need to be conversant with the methodology for them to effectively diagnosis the disease in question, using the test. Therefore, we really cannot rely on the argument.
Ultimately, the argument could be strengthened if the author indicated that: the test has been implemented and that doctors all over the world are conversant with test, the early treatment could offset the disease and inturn save the patient, the test is very affordable and accessible to all and whether treatment would immediately follow the test so as to cure the disease.
Thus, this argument is not logically sound. The evidence in support of the conclusion is not adequate enough to support the conclusion of the argument for the reasons earlir mentioned.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- not exactly
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 360 350
No. of Characters: 1786 1500
No. of Different Words: 178 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.356 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.961 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.658 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 125 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 69 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.947 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.694 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.421 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.301 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.505 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.082 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...usion that death will plummet invalid. Although early detection of a disease is...
^^^
Line 5, column 277, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...y of social amenities such as hospitals is wanting. In such cases then, how will the test ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 342, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: In
... then, how will the test be undertaken. in addition, the affordability is not stat...
^^
Line 9, column 350, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...tment would immediately follow the test so as to cure the disease. Thus, this argumen...
^^^^^^^^
Line 11, column 135, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...dequate enough to support the conclusion of the argument for the reasons earlir m...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, if, may, really, so, then, therefore, thus, as to, even so, in addition, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1854.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 361.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13573407202 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35889894354 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75074133852 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.526315789474 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 567.0 705.55239521 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.76447105788 160% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 80.2661043031 57.8364921388 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.7 119.503703932 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.05 23.324526521 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.4 5.70786347227 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.327767355619 0.218282227539 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0865827157856 0.0743258471296 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0886346423264 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.165447486031 0.128457276422 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0919303587387 0.0628817314937 146% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.3799401198 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 98.500998004 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
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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