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 showing the statistical fact that employees with paid sick leave are 28% less likely to be involved in a work related accident might hold to be true but the assumptions based on which such hypothesis are based does not supports the argument and leaves rooms for many unanswered reasons which actually leads to such accidents in workplaces. The arguments here implies that employees accident in work places are directly proportional to unpaid sick leave. But this assumptions does not a make a cogent case for such evaluation.
The author has stated unpaid leave causing such accident. But why isn’t there wages enough so that they can bear the deductions made in lieu of their absence for any medical emergencies? One of the first contributing factor for such accidents is proper disciplinarian and regulations in workspace given much emphasis on worker’s health health. But most of the workspaces specially the privately owned enterprises are profit driven and they care the least for worker’s health. For example the workers in medical field, be it doctors or nurses, pathologists, teachers responsible for children, security personals all needs a limited time frame, perks and provisions for medical fitness so that while working they can be to their best and not subjected to any pressure. A single inadvertent error from their side would cost lives of many people.
Secondly, the author stated impaired judgment or motor skills due to illness or illness-related medications results to such accidents. But is unpaid leave can be the sole factor for such accidents? The workers are often paid below the minimum wages against statutory provisions and due to dearth of work and dire need of more income to meet the growing inflation they get attracted to the overtime hourly wages. This make them prone to more diseases as human body is not meant for so long hours of work. Whereas tech giant companies try to provide most of comfortable working conditions to their employees like working in AC, free basic food, medical check ups which in turn is giving such industries the highest return as most of the scholared students gets attracted to such working spheres.
Thirdly, it is true that in highest-risk occupations, such as construction, the highest discrepancy between paid and unpaid leave lies but the author fails to mention that such discrepancy lies not from the sole perspective of leaves, but from the very nature of job. The people getting paid leaves are mainly the capitalist class like the managers, accountants and administrative personnals who work inside cool rooms but the socialist class like labourers, mechanics, construction workers who works on field are driven to more adverse working situations like dust, heat, risk but are subjected to less increments than the other class. This stands the main reason for such discrepancy and deteriorating factor to their health.
Thus unpaid leave can be a single reason but does not hold an overall impact for employees incurring serious injuries in workspace accidents. The arguments would have more strength if it could have backed by other possible absence of proper regulations to curb the money making mindset of growing business economy and placing more emphasis on peoples health.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 18 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 9 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 532 350
No. of Characters: 2694 1500
No. of Different Words: 269 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.803 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.064 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.67 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 192 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 142 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 97 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 69 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 15.414 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.737 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.285 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.506 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.046 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 233, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'support'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: support
...hich such hypothesis are based does not supports the argument and leaves rooms for many ...
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Line 1, column 233, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'support'
Suggestion: support
...hich such hypothesis are based does not supports the argument and leaves rooms for many ...
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Line 1, column 386, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'employees'' or 'employee's'?
Suggestion: employees'; employee's
...places. The arguments here implies that employees accident in work places are directly pr...
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Line 1, column 472, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
... proportional to unpaid sick leave. But this assumptions does not a make a cogent ca...
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Line 3, column 330, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: health
...rkspace given much emphasis on worker’s health health. But most of the workspaces specially t...
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Line 7, column 600, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun increments is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...e dust, heat, risk but are subjected to less increments than the other class. This s...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...eteriorating factor to their health. Thus unpaid leave can be a single reason but...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, whereas, while, for example, such as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 11.1786427146 215% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2756.0 2260.96107784 122% => OK
No of words: 531.0 441.139720559 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19020715631 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80035803286 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73569773902 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 275.0 204.123752495 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517890772128 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 823.5 705.55239521 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 96.9647107181 57.8364921388 168% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.052631579 119.503703932 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.9473684211 23.324526521 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.21052631579 5.70786347227 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.285513671562 0.218282227539 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0872912396011 0.0743258471296 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0759804770826 0.0701772020484 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.165576519326 0.128457276422 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0790977885099 0.0628817314937 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 14.3799401198 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.3550499002 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.75 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 98.500998004 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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