"Of the two leading real estate firms in our town — Adams Realty and Fitch Realty — Adams Realty is clearly superior. Adams has 40 real estate agents; in contrast, Fitch has 25, many of whom work only part-time. Moreover, Adams' revenue last year was twice as high as that of Fitch and included home sales that averaged $168,000, compared to Fitch's $144,000. Homes listed with Adams sell faster as well: ten years ago I listed my home with Fitch, and it took more than four months to sell; last year, when I sold another home, I listed it with Adams, and it took only one month. Thus, if you want to sell your home quickly and at a good price, you should use Adams Realty."
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.
In the above argument the homeowner compares two leading real estate firms of the town and claims that Adams Reality is better than Fitch Reality. This homeowner has based his assertion on some assumptions and experience, both of which can be challenged and falsified. e calls Adams Reality superior and recommends his friend this real estate firm over other, however this contention requires in depth analysis before coming to this conclusion. The assumptions on which the homeowner's claim is based is specified and how they are incomplete and incoherent has also been elucidated.
Firstly, the homeowner has used the quantity of the people as the basis to state that Adams is better than Fitch which is irrelevant with the superiority, however what is relevant is the quality of these working people. Now as the owner has evinced the numbers, let us examine more. There are 40 members working and Finch has 25 still there is a difference of $24000 revenue difference between the two. Moreover the fact presented by the homeowner that Adam revenue is twice as Fitch is wrong as 168000 using no math can be equivalent to twice of 144,000 . This proves that the efficiency of Adam's in no case is better than Fitch. Also, if we consider another fact presented to bolster his argument that most of employees in Fitch work only part time has in reality weakened his argument. Clearly, considering less number of hours and less number of employees, worker efficiency is pretty high in Fitch.
Secondly, owner has also shared his experience where the house sold with Fitch took four months to sell with Fitch ten years ago while it took only a month with Adams. Here, the data comparison made does not have a standard time, one data is taken 10 years back where the reason for delayed process could be some financial crisis in the market or less demand for resale houses. There could be some issues with the previous house due to which the sale took time. Also, Fitch could be just an inexperienced firm that time, but we are talking about current time. If the owner could have the data where he sold a house with Fitch recently as he did with Adams, then this premise would be valid.
Lastly, the owner also claims that for good price Adams reality should be used, but this claim has not been backed up with any supporting evidence, and there are many factors which add up to getting a good price, the market situation, the condition of the house, the demand of that area and others.
Hence, to conclude the house owner should have done a thorough investigation before making a claim and passing the recommendation to his friend as the premises used by him are faulty and subjected to errors.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 9 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 9 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 468 350
No. of Characters: 2177 1500
No. of Different Words: 230 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.651 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.652 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.353 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 131 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 91 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 40 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.529 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.299 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.647 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.326 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.561 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.154 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 122, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: E
... which can be challenged and falsified. e calls Adams Reality superior and recom...
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Line 7, column 157, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...amine more. There are 40 members working and Finch has 25 still there is a differ...
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Line 8, column 90, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Moreover,
...000 revenue difference between the two. Moreover the fact presented by the homeowner tha...
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Line 8, column 161, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...the homeowner that Adam revenue is twice as Fitch is wrong as 168000 using no mat...
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Line 9, column 80, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...th can be equivalent to twice of 144,000 . This proves that the efficiency of Adam...
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Line 10, column 74, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'most of', you should use 'the' ('most of the employees') or simply say ''most employees''.
Suggestion: most of the employees; most employees
... presented to bolster his argument that most of employees in Fitch work only part time has in rea...
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Line 10, column 111, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: part-time
...at most of employees in Fitch work only part time has in reality weakened his argument. ...
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Line 13, column 161, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ears ago while it took only a month with Adams. Here, the data comparison made do...
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Line 14, column 169, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...d process could be some financial crisis in the market or less demand for resale ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, lastly, moreover, second, secondly, so, still, then, while, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2261.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 468.0 441.139720559 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8311965812 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65116196802 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41744222179 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 204.123752495 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508547008547 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 689.4 705.55239521 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.6915221536 57.8364921388 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.611111111 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0 23.324526521 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.66666666667 5.70786347227 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 19.0 5.15768463074 368% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => 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: 0.212665316292 0.218282227539 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0718432807976 0.0743258471296 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0734701651838 0.0701772020484 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.066277728575 0.128457276422 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0680684847164 0.0628817314937 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.03 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 98.500998004 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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