A recent study indicates that children living in the Himalayan mountain region in Nepal have lower levels of tooth decay than children living in suburban areas in the United States, despite the fact that people in the Himalayan mountain region in Nepal receive little to no professional dental care, while people in suburban areas in the United States see a dentist an average of 1.25 times per year. Thus, regular dental care is not helpful in preventing tooth decay.
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
The argument states that tooth level decay is lower in Nepal when compared to the united states' sub-urban areas.
Firstly, the explanation provided does not consider various factors like diet, altitude, lifestyle, standard of living and son on. To illustrate, the diet of sub-urban children can contain chemicals which accelerate tooth decay in contrast to the children of Nepal. It is also possible that the parents in Nepal are more restrictive on the eating habits of their children when compared to the United states.
Secondly, the argument presents regarding visits to the dentist. The paragraph assumes that all the people who visit a dentist is to obtain treatment for tooth decay but people visit the dentist for various reasons such as crowded teeth or tooth removal. Additionally, people may also visit the dentist for a routine checkup. It is also possible that there are very few dental clinics in sub-urban areas and more clinics are required to meet the demand.
The argument also presents a fact that people in the mountainous regions in nepal receive very little professional dental care. However, it does not prove that there are no dental problems with the nepalese. Nepalese could be using traditional medicine to treat tooth decay and visit a doctor only when the traditional medicine is not effective.
In summary, Although it is possible that the children of United states have higher possibility of tooth decay than Nepal, it cannot be stated that regular dental care is un
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK
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flaws:
No. of Words: 246 350
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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: 12 15
No. of Words: 246 350
No. of Characters: 1227 1500
No. of Different Words: 127 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.96 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.988 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.465 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 95 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 69 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 46 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 19 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.739 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.833 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.382 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.652 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.092 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, in contrast, in summary, such as, in contrast to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 28.8173652695 49% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 55.5748502994 47% => 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: 1264.0 2260.96107784 56% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 246.0 441.139720559 56% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13821138211 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96035189615 4.56307096286 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54287057466 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 129.0 204.123752495 63% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.524390243902 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 399.6 705.55239521 57% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.312302782 57.8364921388 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.333333333 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5 5.70786347227 184% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.267632955291 0.218282227539 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0890615468686 0.0743258471296 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0746990795823 0.0701772020484 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148405724093 0.128457276422 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.049394190717 0.0628817314937 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 98.500998004 67% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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