"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.
A study performed on 300 men and women from an Advertising firm states that the firms should hire executives who sleep for less than 6 hours, because this factor is assumed to be a factor of firm’s higher profit margins and faster growth. This is based on the based on the data collected from the executives who reported they sleep for no more than 6 hours. But is this study sufficient to conclude that firms must hire people who need less sleep? Let’s clarify the following three assumptions to make judge the given argument.
Firstly, is 300 suitably enough count for a study, in world where the population count is in billions. Making conclusions based on the ideas and practices followed by just 300 people isn’t sufficient. It is as good as concluding that children hate candy, based on opinion of just 2-3 kids. For any study or research to give a correct result, the survey base should be large enough, having more heterogeneity.
Secondly, it is assumed that the overall profit margin and faster progress (hereby referenced as firm’s success) is only dependent on the sleep requirements of its executives. That is, no matter what strategies the firm is following, or what is its plans on advertising, are irrelevant. The only thing relevant is how much sleep are its executives getting. Consider Bill for example, Bill doesn’t work that well, makes mistakes every now and then, but sleeps just 4 hours a day. Is Bill the suitable executive for the firm? I doubt it.
Finally, the study is masking the contributions of employees towards the firm’s success. Sleeping and working are two different aspects of employees daily routine. How is one related to other is questionable, but declaring sleep as the only deciding factor is absurd. If Alex works hard for the company, prepares reports and presentations, runs to the clients and satisfies all the requirements of the candidates, does it matter how many hours he sleeps? The idea here is to acknowledge the hard work people bring to the firm which leads to its success.
Based on the above, it is clear that the study is flawed. Had there been more diverse group of people in study, and better ways to find out the reasons behind the success of firm, the study could have given more relevant and acceptable results. A study involving diverse sets of questions, will help one to gain clearer insights into a firm’s true reasons behind success.
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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: 22 15
No. of Words: 415 350
No. of Characters: 1938 1500
No. of Different Words: 221 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.513 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.67 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.495 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 126 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 89 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 57 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.864 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.698 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.318 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.279 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.502 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.069 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 438, Rule ID: EVERY_NOW_AND_THEN[1]
Message: Use simply 'now and then'.
Suggestion: now and then
...n't work that well, makes mistakes every now and then, but sleeps just 4 hours a day. Is Bill...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, then, well, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 16.3942115768 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2035.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 413.0 441.139720559 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.92736077482 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50803742585 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7081066147 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.542372881356 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 612.0 705.55239521 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 50.8292393239 57.8364921388 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.5 119.503703932 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7727272727 23.324526521 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.59090909091 5.70786347227 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.170726549487 0.218282227539 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0524370724508 0.0743258471296 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0398170011882 0.0701772020484 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0935296599959 0.128457276422 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0433095498291 0.0628817314937 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 14.3799401198 78% => 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: 11.31 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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