In an attempt to improve highway safety, Prunty County last year lowered its speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all county highways. But this effort has failed: the number of accidents has not decreased, and, based on reports by the highway patrol, many drivers are exceeding the speed limit. Prunty County should instead undertake the same kind of road improvement project that Butler County completed five years ago: increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways, and improving visibility at dangerous intersections. Today, major Butler County roads still have a 55 mph speed limit, yet there were 25 percent fewer reported accidents in Butler County this past year than there were five years ago.
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 presents two claims relating to road safety and number of accidents in two separate counties. The argument presented dosesn't make a cogent case for commisioning a road improvement project, it is rife with holes and lack of evidence to warrant such a decision.
The author states that the Prunty county lowered the speed limits on all highways by 10 miles, only to discover that the effort was fruitless, resulting in no improvemnt whatsoever. What the author doesn't account for is the possibility that 45 miles per hout may be high enough to cause deady accidents.
In addition to this, the many drivers are exceeding the speed limits, which means that either people have disregarded the change or it was too soon to judge this result of faliure. The report could have been an old one having numbers from the last year (maybe a yearly report), it would certainly raise a question on its validity with respect to the speed limit change. Or it was even sooner and the people were not informed properly, the author addresses no such possibilities.
Butler county as claimed, undertook and completed a road improvement project five years ago, and they have claimed decrease in the number of accidents in the last five years. Assuming that is true, there are again a number of possible explainations; the demography could have changed in the last five years; the number of people driving on highways of Butler may have changed; the number of highways itself maybe less that Prunty , and maybe the number of intersections may be less. the author doesn't give any hint to the status of such factors to justify a comparison between Prunty and Butler counties to justify the commisioning of a new road improvement project.
Another point the author misses is that according to the argument, Prunty faced a breach of speed limits on highways, which makes us question; will only road improvement suffice, and will the propensity of people to drive rashly and break limits not pose the same problem, which being tackled, as per the road improvement. Which raises the leaves us asking for the evidence necessary to determine that roads are indeed unsafe because of accidents because of driving negligence alone. The author has ignored the possibility of animals wandering on the roads, which can be a common occurance on roads near forests.
The authorities may undertake the road improvemnt project anyway, since inprovement is in everyone's best interest. But the authors' argument remains lacking of evidence, which would help understand the whole picture before making an informed decision.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
anyway, but, if, may, so, as to, even so, in addition, with respect to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 33.0505617978 57% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2182.0 2235.4752809 98% => OK
No of words: 430.0 442.535393258 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07441860465 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55372829156 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63519773374 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.532558139535 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 669.6 704.065955056 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 12.0 4.99550561798 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => 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: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 62.8982953311 60.3974514979 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.466666667 118.986275619 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.6666666667 23.4991977007 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.66666666667 5.21951772744 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.238970308263 0.243740707755 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0733416269181 0.0831039109588 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0703990642596 0.0758088955206 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112832195329 0.150359130593 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0740089022714 0.0667264976115 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 14.1392134831 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.8420337079 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.72 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.95 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 100.480337079 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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