A recent study rating 300 male and female advertising executives according to the average number of hours they sleep per night showed an association between the amount of sleep the executives need and the success of their firms. Of the advertising firms studied, those whose executives reported needing no more than six hours of sleep per night had higher profit margins and faster growth. On the basis of this study, we recommend that businesses hire only people who need less than six hours of sleep per nigh
The argument correlates the number of hours of sleep with the productivity of an individual. Though the argument is seemingly plausible at a cursory glance, a more detailed introspection shows that the argument is a victim to a number of ground shaking fallacies.
The argument is made simply based on evidence provided by the study, which states that if an individual sleeps for 6 hours, he is bound to be at his zenith. This calls into question the validity of the study. Was the sample set biased? On whom was this survey conducted? Did the sample set contain only the young population, who are untiring and complaisant , thanks to their vernal energy? The sample set may also contain a group of caffeine addicts, who are constantly tingling with nervous energy. Or did it sample people from a particular area, where people generally find six hours of sleep to be sufficient?
Further, the argument assumes that people are productive owing to their sleeping schedule. There is no proof which bolsters this argument. Had another survey been successful on asserting the lower productivity of people who did not sleep for six hours, the argument would have been far more plausible. A person may be productive due to numerous reasons. Unwavering family support, physical and mental wellbeing and a good diet may also boost the employee's performance. A good environment at the workplace, and a supportive boss and rewarding bonuses also play a very vital role in the success of the employee.
Building on the implications of the argument, one might realize that the company may lose a few stellar candidates, simply because they do not make it through the filter of 6 hours of sleep. Eventually, this might turn counter-productive for the company as they will lose their valuable assets. A few individuals may flourish with six hours of sleep, but few employees may not be able to adapt to this, and this may cause the sleep-deprived employees to be lethargic throughout the day. This will be deleterious to the company and may cause huge losses.
In a nutshell, it would not be prudent to correlate sleep hours with productivity based on the evidence given in the survey. The survey should be unbiased, and other factors must be given due weightage before rushing into such conclusions.
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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: 21 15
No. of Words: 384 350
No. of Characters: 1859 1500
No. of Different Words: 199 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.427 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.841 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.757 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 131 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 95 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 72 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.286 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.62 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.381 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.284 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.516 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.098 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 130, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...that if an individual sleeps for 6 hours , he is bound to be at his zenith. This c...
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Line 2, column 365, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...lation, who are untiring and complaisant ,thanks to their vernal energy? The sampl...
^^
Line 2, column 459, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
...so contain a group of caffeine addicts, who are constanty tingling with nervous energy....
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 445, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'employees'' or 'employee's'?
Suggestion: employees'; employee's
...eing and a good diet may also boost the employees performance. A good enviornment at the ...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1901.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 386.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.92487046632 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43248042346 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74565282921 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541450777202 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 579.6 705.55239521 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.67365269461 358% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.2499162877 57.8364921388 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.5238095238 119.503703932 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.380952381 23.324526521 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.33333333333 5.70786347227 23% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => 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: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.124784256858 0.218282227539 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0385727391134 0.0743258471296 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0442160081407 0.0701772020484 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0766792834303 0.128457276422 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0293418710806 0.0628817314937 47% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 14.3799401198 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 98.500998004 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 12.3882235529 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => 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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