Altruism is a type of behaviour in which an animal sacrifices its own interest for that of another animal or group of animals. Altruism is the opposite of selfishness; individuals performing altruistic acts gain nothing for themselves.
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: 1230.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 238.0 270.72406181 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16806722689 5.08290768461 102% => 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: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 51.9580250167 49.2860985944 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.818181818 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6363636364 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.90909090909 7.06452816374 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
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: 0.107732148596 0.272083759551 40% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.047517946941 0.0996497079465 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0386841525342 0.0662205650399 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0647717858231 0.162205337803 40% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0483791865112 0.0443174109184 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => 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: 12.71 12.2367328918 104% => 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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Rates: 80 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24 Out of 30
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