Altruism is a type of behaviour in which an animal sacrifices its own interest for that of another animal or group of animals.
Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to specifically explain how they cast doubt on points made in the reading passage.
The passage considers altruism and altruistic acts in humans and mammals. It examines the case
of the meerkat who seems to demonstrate the acts in its behavioural patterns.
The writer goes on to describe how a meerkat would stand guard while its peers search for food. The meerkat would
assume this role on not only an empty stomach but also while putting itself at risk by sounding an alarming
on citing a predator. Thus, putting the sentinel meerkat at higher chance of capture while the others escape.
However, from the lecture, the professor pointed out how the earlier belief was weakened in the light
of new scientific findings, which is a common thing in the scientific community. The professor
explained how the findings on the eating pattern of the meerkat reveals that they eat before
looking for food. This shows that the sentinel meerkat was not sacrificing its stomach by standing
guard.
Also, the new study showed that the alarm sounded by the sentinel meerkat more appropriately functions
as a deterrent; as it draws predator attention away from it. The sentinel meerkat is also known to stand
guard near a burrow, which makes escape easier compared to its foraging companions.
Ultimately, the professor concluded that even other seemingly altruistic action by humans such as
donation of kidney to relatives or even stranger usually offer reward to the donor in other forms
like societal appreciation, approval and increased self-worth.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, so, thus, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 10.4613686534 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1252.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 238.0 270.72406181 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26050420168 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.92775363542 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6278884324 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.596638655462 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 369.0 419.366225166 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.4404424085 49.2860985944 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.818181818 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6363636364 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.90909090909 7.06452816374 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 15.0 4.09492273731 366% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0967308001292 0.272083759551 36% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0394084290958 0.0996497079465 40% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.027198632832 0.0662205650399 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0319082319231 0.162205337803 20% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0269298773908 0.0443174109184 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.32 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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