Nosinia is an herb that many users report to be as effective as prescription medications at fighting allergy symptoms. Researchers recently compared Nosinia to a placebo in 95 men and women with seasonal allergies to ragweed pollen. Participants in the study reported that neither Nosinia nor the placebo offered significant relief. However, for the most severe allergy symptoms, the researchers reported that Nosinia was more effective than the placebo in providing relief. Furthermore, at the end of the study, participants given Nosinia were more likely than participants given a placebo to report feeling healthier.We therefore recommend using Nosinia to help with your severe allergy symptoms.
In this passage, the author asserts that there is a herb called Nosinia which may be a great relief for patients with allergies. His / her hypotheses is revolving around one central premise – findings of a research involving some patients who had allergies to a particular type of pollen, and who were treated with the herb and another placebo. Author claims that although the effect of neither was significant, patients with severe allergy got better relief with the herb, when compared to the placebo. Also, the patients treated with the herb were healthier at the end of the research.
The veracity of the argument is in complete doubt, since the logic provided to substantiate the claim has numerous loopholes. First of all, there are plethora of allergy sources whereas the research was done only with allergies from a single source – the ragweed pollen. Therefore, It doesn’t warrant that the outcome will be same for allergies from another source. Also, only one placebo was used whereas there may be other placebos that could have given much better results than Nosinia.
Secondly, 95 people is a very small sample size, and it is also not known if the sample was taken from a varied population or only from a small geography or ethnicity. These factors play tremendous effect in any research and are very important for taking a decision on something as serious as finalizing a remedy of an annoyingsymptom or disease.
Effect of the herb, in general, was not much except that, as the author claims, it was better only for people with more severe allergies. This obfuscates the reason for suddenly recommending Nosinia for people suffering from allergy.
Finally, information is also not available whether the ill effects of Nosinia were meticulously analyzed. Even if, for the sake of argument, we assume that Nosinia is a great cure for allergies, what if it brings with it other syndromes that may be even worse that enduring allergy?
To summarize, the claim stands unjustified at the moment until more information is made available on the issues discussed above.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 346 350
No. of Characters: 1684 1500
No. of Different Words: 180 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.313 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.867 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.545 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 131 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 59 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.067 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.678 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.331 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.331 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.088 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, whereas, in general, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1744.0 2260.96107784 77% => OK
No of words: 347.0 441.139720559 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02593659942 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31600926901 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65540875696 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.538904899135 0.468620217663 115% => OK
syllable_count: 550.8 705.55239521 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.2773140827 57.8364921388 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.266666667 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1333333333 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.46666666667 5.70786347227 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => 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: 0.267679504238 0.218282227539 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0907787157323 0.0743258471296 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0541351469367 0.0701772020484 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121964661097 0.128457276422 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0775951561183 0.0628817314937 123% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.3799401198 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 98.500998004 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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