A recent study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that employees with paid sick leave are 28 percent less likely to be involved in a work-related accident than employees who do not receive payment for sick leave. Researchers hypothesize that employees with unpaid sick leave feel pressured to work during time of illness for fear of lack of pay. On-the-job accidents are then spurred by impaired judgment or motor skills due to illness or illness-related medications. The highest-risk occupations, such as construction, showed the highest discrepancy between paid and unpaid leave.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to determine whether the researchers’ hypothesis is reasonable. Be sure to explain what effects the answers to these questions would have on the validity of the hypothesis.
The argument correlates work-related accidents with the paid leave option for a sick employee by citing the research that unpaid leave lead to employees working even when their motor skills are impaired by sickness prompting accidents at work place. The argument is incomplete, as it does not answer questions supporting its claim.
First, the researcher must answer what is meant by ‘accident’ when he/she uses it? Does it only include impaired judgment and not pure negligence by the employee? If this is not established then it means that there might be cases where due to negligence the accidents occur and not due to sickness thereby weakening the argument’s claim.
Then it is important to know weather the employees who were involved in work related accidents were historically regular with accidents or was it only in cases when they were sick that these accidents happened. This would challenge the point that only because of sickness the accidents happen.
Also, the author fails to quantify what is paid and unpaid leave. Does every sick employee prefer to come to work or only those few who have payment higher than certain remuneration find it worthwhile? This question is important, as this will establish weather remuneration is a motive to work even when one is sick. If proven otherwise the claim to the statement that construction workers showed maximum discrepancy could be a standalone case and may not be generalized to all occupations.
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... researcher must answer what is meant by ‘accident’ when he/she uses it? Does it ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'first', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'then', 'while']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.204724409449 0.25644967241 80% => OK
Verbs: 0.228346456693 0.15541462614 147% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0866141732283 0.0836205057962 104% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0708661417323 0.0520304965353 136% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0393700787402 0.0272364105082 145% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.0826771653543 0.125424944231 66% => OK
Participles: 0.0472440944882 0.0416121511921 114% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.81207036015 2.79052419416 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0393700787402 0.026700313972 147% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0984251968504 0.113004496875 87% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0236220472441 0.0255425247493 92% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0393700787402 0.0127820249294 308% => Maybe 'Which' is overused. If other WH_determiners like 'Who, What, Whom, Whose...' are used too in sentences, then there are no issues.
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1475.0 2731.13054187 54% => OK
No of words: 239.0 446.07635468 54% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.17154811715 6.12365571057 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.93187294222 4.57801047555 86% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.355648535565 0.378187486979 94% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.276150627615 0.287650121315 96% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.221757322176 0.208842608468 106% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.163179916318 0.135150697306 121% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81207036015 2.79052419416 101% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 207.018472906 67% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.577405857741 0.469332199767 123% => OK
Word variations: 57.3033525553 52.1807786196 110% => OK
How many sentences: 11.0 20.039408867 55% => OK
Sentence length: 21.7272727273 23.2022227129 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.0184170723 57.7814097925 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.090909091 141.986410481 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7272727273 23.2022227129 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.636363636364 0.724660767414 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.14285714286 78% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.58251231527 28% => OK
Readability: 49.3423354888 51.9672348444 95% => OK
Elegance: 0.988372093023 1.8405768891 54% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.29936297292 0.441005458295 68% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.108656740324 0.135418324435 80% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0578707182316 0.0829849096947 70% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.586150082684 0.58762219726 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.148739454174 0.147661913831 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120722162357 0.193483328276 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0724058619238 0.0970749176394 75% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.283747020075 0.42659136922 67% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0530455712557 0.0774707102158 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.19948030405 0.312017818177 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0545510218314 0.0698173142475 78% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.33743842365 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.87684729064 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.82512315271 62% => OK
Positive topic words: 1.0 6.46551724138 15% => More positive topic words wanted.
Negative topic words: 7.0 5.36822660099 130% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 10.0 14.657635468 68% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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More content wanted. For issue essays, around 450 words, for argument essays, around 400 words.
Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 41.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.5 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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