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.
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 if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
In this statement, a complaint against a pet food company is made by consumers of pet food. Firstly, it was the thought the consumed pet food was responsible for the pets vomiting, lethargy, and signs of illness but when the company tested the 4 million pounds of pet food by recalling them, they found all the recalling pet food contain the chemicals which are approved by for the use for pet food. But this test is flawed in some ways.
Firstly, By recalling a huge amount of pet food does not necessarily depicts the exact food's condition which was consumed by the pets. On a particular day, the pet food can be contaminated with toxic materials but that does not mean recalling foods have the same toxic materials and the will depict similarly the same food the pets have consumed before getting sick.
Secondly, although the tested recalling foods were approved for the use of pet food, there is a necessity of testing their expiration dates and their mixture amounts. For example, a slightly higher amount of mixture of methanol than the approved amount with ethanol can produce deadly toxins rather than wine. Besides that, an expired chemical can become toxic material. And for addressing this issues the company should devote further resources to the investigation the pet food expiration date and their mixture amount validity.
Thirdly, the pets can be sic for other reasons also so the company should invest further resources to determine the exact factor which is responsible for the sickness of pets.
Fourthly, among the 4 million food testing only a few samples do not produce the exact scenario of the pet foods. For this reason, a substantial amount of pet foods should be tested to determine whether the pet foods are contaminated by the toxic material or not, whether their mixture amount was exact or not, whether their samples were enough or not to produce exact scenario.
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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: 12 15
No. of Words: 322 350
No. of Characters: 1542 1500
No. of Different Words: 143 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.236 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.789 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.439 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 114 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 49 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 29 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.833 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.378 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.411 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.667 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.135 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 70, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'depict'
Suggestion: depict
...amount of pet food does not necessarily depicts the exact foods condition which was con...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, firstly, second, secondly, similarly, so, third, thirdly, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 28.8173652695 49% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 55.5748502994 54% => More preposition wanted.
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: 1587.0 2260.96107784 70% => OK
No of words: 322.0 441.139720559 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.92857142857 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23607819155 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48709682778 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 204.123752495 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.450310559006 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 484.2 705.55239521 69% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.7500904813 57.8364921388 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.25 119.503703932 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.8333333333 23.324526521 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 5.70786347227 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.540058001477 0.218282227539 247% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.236275534761 0.0743258471296 318% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.180432982273 0.0701772020484 257% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.311919002628 0.128457276422 243% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.164070661251 0.0628817314937 261% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 98.500998004 64% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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