A recent study reported that pet owners have longer, healthier lives on average than do people who own no pets. Specifically, dog owners tend to have a lower incidence of heart disease. In light of these findings, Sherwood Hospital should form a partnership with Sherwood Animal Shelter to institute an adopt-a-dog program.The program would encourage dog ownership for patients recovering from heart disease, which should reduce these patients' chance of experiencing continuing heart problems and also reduce their need for ongoing treatment. As a further benefit, the publicity about the program would encourage more people to adopt pets from the shelter. And that will reduce the incidence of heart disease in the general population.
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.
The argument is based on assumptions which may or may not be true. If the assumptions prove unwarranted, then the argument falls apart.
Firstly, the author of the argument assumes that all pet owners will have longer and healthier lives than do people who have no pets based on recent study. The author does not state who has done the recent study. Is the recent study done by reputed organization? The author does not study if the recent study is larger enough and representative of general population. The recent study reported that dog owners have lower incidence of heart disease. But, we cannot conclude that the dog owners will live healthier and will have no heart disease in the future. If the recent study is not done properly taking all factors into consideration, then it undermines the validity of the argument.
Secondly, the author assumes that if Sherwood hospital forms a partnership with sherwood animal shelter for adopt-a-dog program, then it would encourage dog ownership which in turns lead to less chance of experiencing heart problems. The author assumes that by adopting dogs , the patients recovering for heart disease will reduce their need for ongoing treatment. But, there is no evidence for this. It does not state how will adopting a dog reduce their need for ongoing treatment. If this assumption is not true, then it weakens the argument.
Thirdly, it assumes that adopt-a-dog program would encourage more people to adopt dogs from shelter which in turn leads to reduction in the heart disease incidence in the general population. Will more people adopt dogs as adopt-a-dog program is encouraging it? Even if more people adopt it, it cannot be sure that these people constitute to most of the general population.
The argument is based on assumptions which are not logically sound enough to support it. If the assumptions are not valid, then the argument falls apart. There are no specific evidences to support the argument. The assumptions are made based on unknown recent study. Thus, the findings from the recent study cannot support the argument.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 345 350
No. of Characters: 1699 1500
No. of Different Words: 142 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.31 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.925 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.54 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 119 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 85 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 58 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 15.682 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.376 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.591 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.342 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.582 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.153 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 133, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nwarranted then the argument falls apart Firstly the author of the argument assum...
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Line 3, column 678, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... undermines the validity of the argument Secondly the author assumes that if Sher...
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Line 5, column 270, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...The author assumes that by adopting dogs the patients recovering for heart diseas...
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Line 5, column 420, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'adopt'
Suggestion: adopt
...nce for this It does not state how will adopting a dog reduce their need for ongoing tre...
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Line 7, column 281, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: it
...ncouraging it Even if more people adopt it it cannot be sure that these people consti...
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Line 7, column 364, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...titute to most of the general population The argument is based on assumptions whi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 55.5748502994 49% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1711.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 345.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95942028986 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50508577426 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 204.123752495 66% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.391304347826 0.468620217663 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 541.8 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 1.0 19.7664670659 5% => 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: 345.0 22.8473053892 1510% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 57.8364921388 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 1711.0 119.503703932 1432% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 345.0 23.324526521 1479% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 78.0 5.70786347227 1367% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 8.20758483034 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.321915407585 0.218282227539 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.321915407585 0.0743258471296 433% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0701772020484 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140760582982 0.128457276422 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.149479540666 0.0628817314937 238% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 174.4 14.3799401198 1213% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -278.7 48.3550499002 -576% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 7.1628742515 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 137.8 12.197005988 1130% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 12.97 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 23.4 8.32208582834 281% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 58.0 98.500998004 59% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 55.0 12.3882235529 444% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 140.0 11.1389221557 1257% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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