The argument seems pretty convincing in positing the fact the customers are either unable to distinguish between butter and margarine or use the two terms interchangeably. However, there can be one or more alternative explanations which could contradict the proposed explanation in the argument.
Firstly, the argument is missing out on facts like whether butter and margarine have similar tastes or looks. If this is valid, then this could explain why an average 98 out of 100 people aren't complaining about the change. Probably, they have less knowledge in food and hence, are inept at distinguishing between the two. The replacement of butter with margarine could still produce the same culinary taste in food. Maybe, the customers at Happy Pancake restaurants are satisfied as long as the food tastes the same irrespective of the ingredients which constitute the recipe.Additionally, the argument also posits that when a number of customers ask for butter and are given margarine instead, they have no complaints which means that butter and margarine are imperceptibly similar.
Secondly, the calorific details of butter and margarine are unknown. Suppose, butter has more calories than margarine, people could be opting for a more health-conscious diet. This could explain why people aren't complaining and are actually happy with the change. This could also explicate the fact that the 2 percent of the customers who were unhappy about this change could be the customers who don't prefer a healthy diet. The validity of this assumption could undermine the proposed explanation of the argument.
Thirdly, the argument mentions that since the customers are happy, the reasons could be attributed to either not being able to distinguish or using the two terms as synonyms for each other. This explanation is a little bizarre. Before jumping to conclusions, the preferences of customers who visit Happy pancake restaurants would give a clear picture. What if the customers are able to distinguish between the two but since the taste hasn't change, they aren't complaining? What if taste if of cardinal importance to it's majority of customers rather than the ingredients? If this holds true, this would belie the explanation provided by the argument.
Thus, in contrast to the conclusion drawn which says that the customers haven't noticed the changes or refer to the two terms butter and margarine in the same context, there could be potential flaws behind the explanation drawn above and providing a few more evidences as suggested above could prove beneficial.
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Essay evaluation report
flaws:
No where in the topic said that they are happy with the change. we need to argue against 'indicating that an average of 98 people out of 100 are happy with the change.'
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 415 350
No. of Characters: 2111 1500
No. of Different Words: 192 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.513 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.087 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.819 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 144 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 114 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 84 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 62 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.842 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.816 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.737 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.34 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.534 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.088 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 189, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: aren't
...ain why an average 98 out of 100 people arent complaining about the change. Probably,...
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Line 3, column 578, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Additionally
...ingredients which constitute the recipe.Additionally, the argument also posits that when a n...
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Line 5, column 207, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: aren't
...ous diet. This could explain why people arent complaining and are actually happy with...
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Line 5, column 398, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... this change could be the customers who dont prefer a healthy diet. The validity of ...
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Line 7, column 435, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: hasn't
...ish between the two but since the taste hasnt change, they arent complaining? What if...
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Line 7, column 454, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: aren't
... but since the taste hasnt change, they arent complaining? What if taste if of cardin...
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Line 7, column 487, Rule ID: IF_IS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
..., they arent complaining? What if taste if of cardinal importance to its majority ...
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Line 9, column 73, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: haven't
...ion drawn which says that the customers havent noticed the changes or refer to the two...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, thirdly, thus, in contrast, in contrast to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2164.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 408.0 441.139720559 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.30392156863 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49433085973 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93700684834 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477941176471 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 669.6 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 78.8498696198 57.8364921388 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.894736842 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4736842105 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 5.70786347227 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.210452191615 0.218282227539 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.074348855298 0.0743258471296 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0411427007254 0.0701772020484 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120236548251 0.128457276422 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0530220306525 0.0628817314937 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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