The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Balmer Island Gazette.
"The population on Balmer Island increases to 100,000 during the summer months. To reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balmer Island plans to limit the number of mopeds rented by each of the island's six moped rental companies from 50 per day to 30 per day during the summer season. Last year, the neighboring island of Torseau enforced similar limits on moped rentals and saw a 50 percent reduction in moped accidents. We predict that putting these limits into effect on Balmer Island will result in the same reduction in moped accidents."
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
First of all, when we compare two different places, they differ in a lot of ways. Even if they are neighbors to each other they may have totally different cultures, languages, arts, and people. A system which has been successfully tested in one city may not work with another city due to the differences I stated earlier. We have to consider many unseen facts and ideas to really understand the statement and I have tried to sum up all that I can in the below passages.
Balmer Island may be a popular tourist destination during summer when many people want to spend holidays on a beach island. So they come here, rent a hotel and a moped and move on their own to travel spots. But it is not necessary that the moped accidents are only caused by people who rent mopeds. They may actually be caused by the local people of Balmer Island itself. So even if we reduce the moped rent number form 50 to 30, accidents are still gonna occur at the same rate.
In Torseau Islands, the roads may not be that good to drive mopeds, but people still drive it and thus meet with accidents. And when we talk about the action taken by their council on moped rentals, we must not forget that they may improve road conditions and that may be the reason there was 50 percent reduction in moped accidents. So the same system may not work in Balmer Islands. They should probably try fixing their roads first and let tourists enjoy the moped rides. And anyway they are talking about the law being implemented in Torseau last year, things may have changed this current year, the plan may have failed by now and the accidents may be on rising now.
Moreover, moped accidents are caused by people themselves by not following traffic rules like speed limit and wearing helmets. Even if the rental companies reduced to amount to 30 mopeds per day, but what if very rash drivers rent these mopeds and accidents still continue to rise, so it totally depends on the type of people who are riding bikes and not the actual number.
The Balmer Island may be a tourist destination and Torseau may not be a tourist destination. So no rise in population during summer and so reduced number of accidents in Torseau. But on the other hand, Balmer is full of tourists who don't know the type of roads there and thus may end up in an accident more easily than the local people of Torseau.
To conclude, it's not really necessary that the same law will work in Balmer Islands even if they worked in Torseau because of all the reasons I specified above. They may work in a town with similar configurations as Torseau but nothing has been discussed about the compatibility of the two places with each other. We can simply refute the assumption based on the fact that not enough details are provided for the plan to be actually successful.
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- The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Balmer Island Gazette."The population on Balmer Island increases to 100,000 during the summer months. To reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balm 55
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Essay evaluation report
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: 22 15
No. of Words: 508 350
No. of Characters: 2244 1500
No. of Different Words: 235 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.748 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.417 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.256 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 149 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 48 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.091 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.918 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 1 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.318 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.554 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.083 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 234, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...er hand, Balmer is full of tourists who dont know the type of roads there and thus m...
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Line 12, column 14, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...l people of Torseau. To conclude, its not really necessary that the same law ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, anyway, but, first, if, may, moreover, really, so, still, thus, as to, talking about, first of all, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.9520958084 154% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 11.1786427146 197% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 28.8173652695 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2310.0 2260.96107784 102% => OK
No of words: 507.0 441.139720559 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.55621301775 5.12650576532 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74517233601 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32164563945 2.78398813304 83% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 204.123752495 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46942800789 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 713.7 705.55239521 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.67365269461 418% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.1602026156 57.8364921388 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.0 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0454545455 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.27272727273 5.70786347227 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.162495732212 0.218282227539 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0590672158868 0.0743258471296 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0571487060165 0.0701772020484 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100342653964 0.128457276422 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0713541063089 0.0628817314937 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 48.3550499002 135% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.46 12.5979740519 75% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.83 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 98.500998004 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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