In a study of the reading habits of Waymarsh citizens conducted by the University of Waymarsh, most respondents said that they preferred literary classics as reading material. However, a second study conducted by the same researchers found that the type of book most frequently checked out of each of the public libraries in Waymarsh was the mystery novel. Therefore, it can be concluded that the respondents in the first study had misrepresented their reading habits.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The author comes to the unwarranted conclusion that the people who were interviewed earlier and the people who frequently checked out had different book preferences and therefore the study was wrong based on the evidences given. The conclusion makes some strong decisions which has not been closely introspected and clearly, has made some wrong or half-hearted assumptions.
Firstly, the assumption which blatantly is a mistake on part of the people who took took the study. The poll was taken but the names or any type of identification of the citizens were not taken, therefore invariably there will be difference in the people who responded to literary classics as reading material and people who checked out from the public libraries with the mystery novels. This discrepancy leads to a lot of errors and therefore is not a relevant parameter to declare the result of the study. For example, What if the University interviewed only the people in suburbs while most of the public libraries are in the outskirts of the country. This would lead to aberrant data and faulty results.
Secondly, it could be possible that the researchers assumed the age of the people whom they interviewed to be the same as the people who actually go to the library to read books or even rent books. For example if the University study group, had asked the questions to elderly people above the age thirty but the actual people who went to public library to read and rent books were kids right from age five onwards, then the statistics in the study would be proved wrong since many kids could be fond of the mystery genre and hence frequently checked out with these books. This proves that the assumption of the researchers could be way off and hence the folly in the study.
Thirdly, the assumption that people who were included in the part of the study were working professionals and enjoyed reading the literary books maybe once in a while or maybe spasmodically while the people who visited these libraries were university student and children who would majorly get homework from these mystery novel books and had to keep issuing these books over a period of six months continuously for completing their assignments in time.
Therefore I believe that the result of the research was definitely flawed due to many external parameters and insufficient data collection of the interviewees. If the author does a full systematic research and sedulously of all the given assumptions, then the study could provide some insight to reading preferences of the Wayward country.
Comments
e-rater score 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: 428 350
No. of Characters: 2099 1500
No. of Different Words: 197 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.548 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.904 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.67 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 137 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 107 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 54 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 32.923 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 18.458 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.846 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.401 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.643 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.088 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 213, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'evidences'' or 'evidence's'?
Suggestion: evidences'; evidence's
...refore the study was wrong based on the evidences given. The conclusion makes some strong...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e wrong or half-hearted assumptions. Firstly, the assumption which blatantly ...
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Line 3, column 85, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: took
... is a mistake on part of the people who took took the study. The poll was taken but the n...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...to aberrant data and faulty results. Secondly, it could be possible that the ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ff and hence the folly in the study. Thirdly, the assumption that people who ...
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Line 7, column 314, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this mystery' or 'these mysteries'?
Suggestion: this mystery; these mysteries
...ren who would majorly get homework from these mystery novel books and had to keep issuing the...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ompleting their assignments in time. Therefore I believe that the result of t...
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Line 9, column 6, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...ting their assignments in time. Therefore I believe that the result of the resear...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, firstly, hence, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, while, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 11.1786427146 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2139.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 428.0 441.139720559 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9976635514 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.548423998 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71382603233 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46261682243 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 668.7 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => 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: 32.0 22.8473053892 140% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 110.286662516 57.8364921388 191% => OK
Chars per sentence: 164.538461538 119.503703932 138% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.9230769231 23.324526521 141% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.23076923077 5.70786347227 162% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.14276247559 0.218282227539 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0511042744763 0.0743258471296 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0471780147708 0.0701772020484 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0838053128293 0.128457276422 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.028792905454 0.0628817314937 46% => 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: 18.6 14.3799401198 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.0 48.3550499002 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.197005988 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 98.500998004 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.1389221557 133% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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