Dowsing is the millennia-old practice of finding hidden things. The most well-known activity of dowsing involves the use of a device such as a forked stick to locate underground water. To this end, the dowser walks slowly back and forth over an area of gr
The reading passage and the lecture are both about dowsing practice. From their contexts, it can be stated that the prevailing discussion is about its efficiency in found underground water or objects. While the author of the texts claims that it is a successful tool to find water and objects, the lecturer completely refutes the arguments in the article. Hence, arguing that these explanations are faulty.
Firstly, it is said by the lecturer that the invisible frequencies used to find water are just claims or assumptions, in other words, they are empirical evidences. Furthermore, this concept is against the laws of physics and it is required ineffable evidences to support this theory. This directly contradicts the reading passage that denotes that the dowsing tools are able to detect underground vibrating frequencies and, consequently, precisely find water location.
Secondly, the lecturer safely assumes that the force, presumed by article to exert a strong pull on dowsing tools, is unknown to science and no experiment was able to detect evidence for its existence. This idea strongly contrasts with the article that mentions the force to explain the dowsing’s mode of action in finding water and other objects, including harmful ones.
Finally, the lecture believes that experiments made with variable controls prove that dowsing do not work. It is stated that there is the same chance to find water if you do it with dowsing or without it. Besides, just without strict conditions dowsing maybe successful. The text, on the other hand, states that although the manner of how it works is not completely known, it is a beneficial and reliable tool that helps a lot of clients and business.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, consequently, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, if, may, second, secondly, while, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1439.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 277.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19494584838 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7205753179 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5559566787 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 434.7 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.0855992171 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.692307692 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3076923077 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.3846153846 7.06452816374 147% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.176340514364 0.272083759551 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0637527814738 0.0996497079465 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0370241038813 0.0662205650399 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107959027344 0.162205337803 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0239926688121 0.0443174109184 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.