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.
The following passage has the following fallacies. First fallacy, presence of dental care in a particular region can't be the only basis on which a general conclusion should be drawn. Second fallacy, the authenticity of the statistics given in the passage about the children who received dental care . Third fallacy, the author of the passage hasn't provided additional information on children in America who don't have access to dental healthcare and as to how well their tooth decay is prevented.
First fallacy, presence of dental care in a particular region can't be the only basis on which a general conclusion should be drawn. As the same case when checked with children in other countries the result would be different and children would in fact be benefiting from dental care. Thus, coming to a conclusion based on one instance is wrong.
Second fallacy, the authenticity of the statistics given in the passage about the children who received dental care. While the passage tells us that children in suburban areas received dental care at an average 1.25 times per year, it fails to mention whether these children were having healthy teeth or not. The passage also fails to mention any reference on the data which is provided so as to verify.
Third fallacy, the author of the passage hasn't provided additional information on children in America who don't have access to dental healthcare and as to how well their tooth decay is prevented. If the author had provided information on the above and compared these children with children in Nepal, then conclusion would have had stronger stance in proving its point.
Therefore, if the author resolved all the above fallacies in the passage, then the conclusion that regular dental care is not helpful in preventing tooth decay would hold a stronger stance.
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: 13 15
No. of Words: 304 350
No. of Characters: 1482 1500
No. of Different Words: 125 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.176 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.875 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.566 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 111 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 82 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 55 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.385 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.381 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.923 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.441 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.656 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.144 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 114, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...e of dental care in a particular region cant be the only basis on which a general co...
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Line 1, column 299, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...ut the children who received dental care . Third fallacy, the author of the passag...
^^
Line 1, column 343, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: hasn't
...hird fallacy, the author of the passage hasnt provided additional information on chil...
^^^^^
Line 1, column 408, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... information on children in America who dont have access to dental healthcare and as...
^^^^
Line 5, column 63, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...e of dental care in a particular region cant be the only basis on which a general co...
^^^^
Line 9, column 388, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...reference on the data which is provided so as to verify. Third fallacy, the author ...
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Line 13, column 42, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: hasn't
...hird fallacy, the author of the passage hasnt provided additional information on chil...
^^^^^
Line 13, column 107, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... information on children in America who dont have access to dental healthcare and as...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, second, so, then, therefore, third, thus, well, while, as to, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 28.8173652695 31% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1526.0 2260.96107784 67% => OK
No of words: 300.0 441.139720559 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08666666667 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59373773042 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 204.123752495 62% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.423333333333 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 472.5 705.55239521 67% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.8722412186 57.8364921388 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.384615385 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0769230769 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.61538461538 5.70786347227 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.139042485703 0.218282227539 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0550460893711 0.0743258471296 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0412824063212 0.0701772020484 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0860852506408 0.128457276422 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0340573257963 0.0628817314937 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.2 8.32208582834 87% => OK
difficult_words: 46.0 98.500998004 47% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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