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.
After the testing of samples from the recalled food, the pet food company concludes that the recalled food was not responsible for the symptoms, such as vomiting, lethargy, and other signs of illness, observed in pets, which consumed the food and the company should not devote further resource to the investigation. The company cites that, according to the test results, all chemicals found in food are approved for use in pet food. I find the company's argument logically not convincing for various reasons.
Firstly, the company assumes that any approved chemical cannot lead to any kind of side effect, such as vomiting or lethargy. One could argue that it is equally possible that some approved chemical can lead to a side effect. Hence it is presumptuous to conclude that the recalled food was not responsible for the symptoms on the basis that all chemicals found in food were chemicals that
Secondly, Even if we assume that the company's assumption that any approved chemical cannot lead to any kind of side effect is true, then also it is possible that the mixture of two chemicals, which approved for use in pet food, can lead to symptoms, such as vomiting, lethargy, and other signs of illness. And in such case, the company's conclusion will be wrong.
In sum, The company's argument is not a strong argument and is very defensive in nature. The company must provide the support for the assumption that any approved chemical cannot lead to any kind of side effect.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 10 15
No. of Words: 251 350
No. of Characters: 1195 1500
No. of Different Words: 107 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.98 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.761 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.472 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 83 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 71 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 52 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 20 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.1 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.577 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.466 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.655 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.15 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 226, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...ved chemical can lead to a side effect. Hence it is presumptuous to conclude that the...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 388, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...micals found in food were chemicals that Secondly, Even if we assume that the com...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, if, second, secondly, so, then, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 55.5748502994 47% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1231.0 2260.96107784 54% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 251.0 441.139720559 57% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90438247012 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98032404683 4.56307096286 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5442980962 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 114.0 204.123752495 56% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.454183266932 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 383.4 705.55239521 54% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 19.7664670659 46% => 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: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 130.507366993 57.8364921388 226% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 136.777777778 119.503703932 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.8888888889 23.324526521 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.55555555556 5.70786347227 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => 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: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.374593423371 0.218282227539 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.161260474149 0.0743258471296 217% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.194640432905 0.0701772020484 277% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.240801586966 0.128457276422 187% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.201344482842 0.0628817314937 320% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.3550499002 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.197005988 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 98.500998004 52% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => 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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