Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they oppose specific points made in the reading passage.
The reading passage introduces the idea of altruism or the act of selflessness seen in humans and other mammals and gives examples to explain it. The professor in the conversation explains that some examples considered as altruistic acts in the passage, are in fact not selfless and there is some benefit for the person or the animal performing the deed. These examples are elaborated on in the following paragraphs.
Firstly, the lecturer gives the example of a scientific experiment conducted on meerkats. According to the experiment, the individual meerkat, which is believed to be performing an altruistic act as per the passage, by guarding and looking out for the predators while its group mates search or eat the food, in fact, gets some benefits from the task. For example, they have more chances of survival than their mates in case of an encounter with a predator. Thus, opposing the passage’s example of a guarding meerkat.
Furthermore, the lecturer also says that another example cited in the reading passage on altruistic acts performed by humans is flawed. The passage says that humans perform the unselfish deed of organ donation. But, the professor suggests that there is some gain for the donor. For example- They will receive appreciation from the recipient and the society for performing this task.
To sum up, the professor does not agree with the examples cited as unselfish acts in the reading passage.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, look, so, thus, while, for example, in fact, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1206.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 235.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13191489362 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91531732006 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75375376547 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.536170212766 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 369.9 419.366225166 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: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.015711185 49.2860985944 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.5 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5833333333 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.16666666667 7.06452816374 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.102844006197 0.272083759551 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0448449977751 0.0996497079465 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.035875042787 0.0662205650399 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0646542438687 0.162205337803 40% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0177371463649 0.0443174109184 40% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 63.6247240618 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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