"A recent study rating 300 male and female Mentian 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 6 hours of sleep per night had higher profit margins and faster growth. These results suggest that if a business wants to prosper, it should hire only people who need less than 6 hours of sleep per night."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
This passage claim that a recent study shows that if a business wants to prosper, it should hire only people who need less than 6 hours of sleep per night. This reasoning has several flaws, and, therefore, is not convincing. The logic of argument is compromised because the author fails to mention some important information, suggests groundless cause-effect reasoning, uses incorrect generalization
First of all, the author of article claims that if an advertising firms wants to growth, they should hire executives who need less than 6 hours of sleep per day. When making such a statement the author assumes that business success depends only from sleeping time their executives. Indeed, the authors argument may seem logical at first glance. However, the author fails to consider that business profit depends from a big quantity of factors: economic situation, quality of stuff, education level of stuff and etc. Therefore, the authors argument is doubtful because it contains a major flaw in reasoning. To higher people, who just sleep less than 6 hour per night could be a simple way for the improving every business.
Second, the argument point out that there is an association between the amount of sleep the executives need and the success of their firm. Again, this point can be reasonable and justified to initiative reader. Nevertheless, a careful analysis reveal a major weakness in author’s argument. The author ignores the possibility that executives who sleep less can read more books or study some additional material that improve their ability to do their work. This problem could have been avoided if the author had provided comprehensive analysis of all fact and factors relevant to the matter.
Finally, the argument suggests that any business should follow the advice that was received from only one survey between only 300 participant and only from advertising area. However, it may be case that this survey work only for this participant or realm of study, but cannot work for others business area, also it may be many others survey with different results. This problem could have been avoided if the author had mentioned more survey from this topic.
In conclusion, the argument that for prosper and growth business should hire only people who sleep less than 6 hour contains several logical inconsistencies: lack of important information, unsupported cause-effect, flawed generalization. The author’s reasoning, therefore, is doubtful and hardly convincing.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- duplicated to argument 1
argument 3 -- OK
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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: 18 15
No. of Words: 396 350
No. of Characters: 2039 1500
No. of Different Words: 188 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.461 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.149 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.653 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 153 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 113 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 78 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.244 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.722 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.338 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.49 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.047 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 400, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...reasoning, uses incorrect generalization First of all, the author of article clai...
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Line 3, column 163, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “When” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...eed less than 6 hours of sleep per day. When making such a statement the author assu...
^^^^
Line 3, column 232, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...the author assumes that business success depends only from sleeping time their ex...
^^
Line 3, column 296, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ping time their executives. Indeed, the authors argument may seem logical at first glan...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 509, Rule ID: AND_ETC[1]
Message: Use simply 'etc.'.
Suggestion: etc.
...lity of stuff, education level of stuff and etc. Therefore, the authors argument is doub...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 533, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... level of stuff and etc. Therefore, the authors argument is doubtful because it contain...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 654, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'hour' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'hours'.
Suggestion: hours
...gher people, who just sleep less than 6 hour per night could be a simple way for the...
^^^^
Line 6, column 460, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... mentioned more survey from this topic. In conclusion, the argument that for pro...
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Line 8, column 112, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'hour' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'hours'.
Suggestion: hours
... hire only people who sleep less than 6 hour contains several logical inconsistencie...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 55.5748502994 61% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2110.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 396.0 441.139720559 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.32828282828 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46091344257 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81284114348 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505050505051 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 636.3 705.55239521 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.3147445358 57.8364921388 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.222222222 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.05555555556 5.70786347227 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.200913556094 0.218282227539 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0690323889628 0.0743258471296 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0931170899916 0.0701772020484 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118749461455 0.128457276422 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0673142290234 0.0628817314937 107% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => 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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