A pet food company recalled 4 million pounds of pet food in response to complaints that pets that had consumed the food experienced vomiting, lethargy, and other signs of illness. After the recall, the pet food company tested samples from the recalled food and determined that all chemicals found in the food were chemicals that are approved for use in pet food. Thus, the recalled food was not responsible for these symptoms, and the company should not devote further resources to the investigation.
The author of this argument has drawn an conclusion from the disjoint facts and baseless assumptions that the recalled food was not responsible for the various symptoms seen in pets as all the chemicals used in making of food was approved chemicals and therefore the company should not devote further resources for the investigation purpose. However, the argument is problematic in several respects.
To begin with, as it is stated that the pets who had consumed this food experienced various problems like vomiting,lethargy, and other signs of illness there has to be some problems in the food, otherwise same problems will not occur with so many pets. Therefore the author here cannot claim that company should not give further resources for the investigation.
Secondly, it is given that after recall, the samples of pet food were tasted, but based on testing some samples from millions of samples one can never assure that food provided to pets was not in fault.
Moreover, it is highly possible that the chemicals that were approved had some side effects afterwards. Therefore, without taking into account these all possibilities it would be baseless to make any assertion.
Finally, it is given that company had tested the samples but nowhere it is mentioned that they had certified report or assurance of test.
It casts the doubt on the certainty of the test conducted. Moreover, a company cannot take a risk by not devoting further resources to the investigation as if it is found that the food provided by them was the real reason for all these symptoms then it would deteriorate the respect and fame of company to a great extent.
In my final analysis, I conclude that the argument is as unconvincing as it stands. The author fails to provide the adequate evidence and mere assumptions are not enough to prove the claim. Therefore, in order to strengthen his argument, the author must provide strong evidence is support of his assertion.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- not exactly
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 327 350
No. of Characters: 1589 1500
No. of Different Words: 166 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.252 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.859 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.608 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 115 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.154 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.935 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.769 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.337 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.613 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.047 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 39, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
The author of this argument has drawn an conclusion from the disjoint facts and ...
^^
Line 3, column 67, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ated that the pets who had consumed this food experienced various problems like v...
^^
Line 3, column 116, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , lethargy
...perienced various problems like vomiting,lethargy, and other signs of illness there has t...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 255, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...blems will not occur with so many pets. Therefore the author here cannot claim that compa...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 70, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...le that the chemicals that were approved had some side effects afterwards. Theref...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, as to, to begin with, to a great extent
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 55.5748502994 67% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1637.0 2260.96107784 72% => OK
No of words: 326.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02147239264 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78056444544 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.515337423313 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 508.5 705.55239521 72% => 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: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 84.6172727062 57.8364921388 146% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.923076923 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0769230769 23.324526521 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.84615384615 5.70786347227 155% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.362434986487 0.218282227539 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0943136901652 0.0743258471296 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.122871924049 0.0701772020484 175% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161502091162 0.128457276422 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.129577008248 0.0628817314937 206% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.3799401198 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 98.500998004 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 12.3882235529 149% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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