2. The following appeared as part of a letter to the editor of a scientific journal.A recent study of eighteen rhesus monkeys provides clues as to the effects of birth order on an individual's levels of stimulation. The study showed that in stimulating si

The argument is not found.

First, 18 rhesus monkeys are relative small in sample sizes, as the experiment require, at least a mother and 2 babies are required, that is at most 6 groups. 6 groups as a sample is really low. If the study can include more families.

Second, increasing level of cortisol but without giving correct correlation between human and monkey is insufficient to generalize birth order to an individual’s hormone level. The given experiment groups, human and monkeys, may have great similarities, but without sufficient classification, nothing is conclusive. There can be a hidden mutual mutator X, affect both human and monkey’s cortisol level. Without special designed tool to root out the factor, “birth order” can be the independent control determine the cortisol level.

Most importantly, birth order probably is not the factor directly contributing to the hormone level. For example, when facing stimulants, given first born will have more cortisol facing their returning parents. However, the second born, probably is accompanied by the first born, produces less. There can be two factors here, birth order and group number, second born enjoys a larger pact. On the other hand, possibly the mothers learned something from their past and acts more carefully and cause less noise. This will make their babies have less cortisol. This can be root out by putting mothers have multiple babies as stimulant instead of the “first-born’s” biological parents.

Conclusively, the birth order may be relevant to some extent in the stimulation level of individuals. However, there may be certain other factors that are more relevant than the birth order such as those discussed above. Further studies and a larger population data maybe more convincing for that matter.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 196, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” 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.
...ps. 6 groups as a sample is really low. If the study can include more families. ...
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Line 9, column 222, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Further,
...th order such as those discussed above. Further studies and a larger population data ma...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, really, second, so, at least, for example, such as, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 33.0505617978 27% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 58.6224719101 41% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1550.0 2235.4752809 69% => OK
No of words: 284.0 442.535393258 64% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.45774647887 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.55969084622 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14543654795 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 215.323595506 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.580985915493 0.4932671777 118% => OK
syllable_count: 468.9 704.065955056 67% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 23.0359550562 65% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.1306023494 60.3974514979 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.1111111111 118.986275619 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7777777778 23.4991977007 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 5.21951772744 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.178786073955 0.243740707755 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0577543080151 0.0831039109588 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.056773186953 0.0758088955206 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.088253382806 0.150359130593 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0571169988067 0.0667264976115 86% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 47.79 48.8420337079 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.09 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 100.480337079 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.2143820225 71% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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