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.
The argument states that pet food company have test food samples of the pet, accused of being adulterated by some of the consumers, and found it to be negative. Based solely on this experiment, they conclude that their pet food is unadulterated and no more investigation is required. there are many flaws in the argument which will be discussed now.
it seems clearly a surreal situation when all category of pets experience distress. The chemicals that are pernicious to dogs may be innocuous to cats. so, if the complaints are registered by the owners of dogs and the food product that is being tested is meant for dogs, clearly the experiment can not produce any evidence. also, the area from which complaints have been registered is also important as quality of food product may be vulnerable to weather change, it may act as catalyst in some conditions. if the experiment is not conducted in the same conditions as the area where this ambiguity is found, no inferences can be drawn from the results of the experiment.
Moreover, there is also a statistical sampling flaw in the argument. it is provided that 4 million pounds of pet food was recalled and various samples were tested. The actual quantity of the food in the market is not provided so nothing can be inferred from the results of the experiments. Suppose the sampling done is biased and does not represent the actual market, no inference can be drawn from the experiment. also the authenticity of the approving agency is not provided. again, the threshold for various chemicals will depend on the type of pet administered by the food.
The author presents very strong conclusion on the basis of just one experiment which again is clearly misleading. More detailed analysis should be performed in order to reach the final conclusion. The goal of the company should not be just to check if their food product is innocous or not but to reach the cause of the problem.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
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: 11 15
No. of Words: 333 350
No. of Characters: 1568 1500
No. of Different Words: 154 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.272 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.709 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.667 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 104 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 63 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 40 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30.273 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 20.667 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.455 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.382 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.633 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.097 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 110, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...he pet, accused of being adulterated by some of the consumers, and found it to be negative....
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Line 1, column 285, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: There
... and no more investigation is required. there are many flaws in the argument which wi...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ument which will be discussed now. it seems clearly a surreal situation whe...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...hich will be discussed now. it seems clearly a surreal situation when ...
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Line 9, column 153, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: So
...cious to dogs may be innocuous to cats. so, if the complaints are registered by th...
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Line 9, column 326, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Also
...xperiment can not produce any evidence. also, the area from which complaints have be...
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Line 9, column 509, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...may act as catalyst in some conditions. if the experiment is not conducted in the ...
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Line 13, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rom the results of the experiment. Moreover, there is also a statistical sa...
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Line 17, column 70, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...tistical sampling flaw in the argument. it is provided that 4 million pounds of pe...
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Line 17, column 416, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Also
...rence can be drawn from the experiment. also the authenticity of the approving agenc...
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Line 17, column 416, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: also,
...rence can be drawn from the experiment. also the authenticity of the approving agenc...
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Line 17, column 479, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Again
...f the approving agency is not provided. again, the threshold for various chemicals wi...
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Line 21, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e of pet administered by the food. The author presents very strong conclusi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, moreover, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 28.8173652695 49% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1632.0 2260.96107784 72% => OK
No of words: 333.0 441.139720559 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9009009009 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75130474246 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.501501501502 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 503.1 705.55239521 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.409737808 57.8364921388 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.0 119.503703932 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5882352941 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.23529411765 5.70786347227 39% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 13.0 5.25449101796 247% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.30337870849 0.218282227539 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10081515132 0.0743258471296 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.116849188364 0.0701772020484 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.195744278938 0.128457276422 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.10273278248 0.0628817314937 163% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 98.500998004 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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