In the reading the altruism is explained as sacrificing one individual within a group to help others’ survival, and the author gives their examples of this behavior. On the other hand, the professor in the lecture argues that these examples are not 100% correct examples for altruism, and could be misleading.
First of all, people who share food or donate their organs to relatives or even strangers, in the text, is an act of altruism. However, the lecturer thinks that people would feel appreciation from others and this non-material reward would be worth it. As an example to show her claim, she gave a person who donated their kidney to a relative or a stranger.
In the passage, the author illustrates meerkats' population, who stand in front of a predator and distracts them, by crying, from other meerkats who look for food. In contrast, the professor disagrees with this example, since it’s evidence relies on old studies. She supports her claim by explaining a recent study about the meerkat population. Recently, scientists found that the members of meerkat who cry are in fact already feeded ones, so their stomachs would be full. Additionally, the professor points out that crying would put other meerkats in stress and would cause them to be quicker and move faster, which would catch the attention of predators, and lead to their death. In fact, she thinks those who are not standing are in more danger.
Overall, the author gave two examples of altruistic behavior. However, the professor disagreed with the examples given in the passage, and she gave several reasons why.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, look, so, in contrast, in fact, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1337.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 266.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02631578947 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03850299372 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60769234361 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578947368421 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 389.7 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 2.5761589404 349% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.2991770219 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.846153846 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4615384615 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.38461538462 7.06452816374 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.11960807488 0.272083759551 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0459763679987 0.0996497079465 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0521791743128 0.0662205650399 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0886880738563 0.162205337803 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0651656946938 0.0443174109184 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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