The following appeared as part of an article in a business magazine.
"A recent study rating 300 male and female Mentian advertising executives according to the average number of hours they sleep per night showed an association between the amount of sleep the executives need and the success of their firms. Of the advertising firms studied, those whose executives reported needing no more than 6 hours of sleep per night had higher profit margins and faster growth. These results suggest that if a business wants to prosper, it should hire only people who need less than 6 hours of sleep per night."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The prompt recommends the recruitment of people who need 6 or less than 6 hours of sleep in order to ensure a business prosperity. To support the claim, it points out to the results obtained in study conducted lately which showed that executives of those businesses who sleep for 6 or less than 6 hours are boon for business. The claim’s chain of reasoning seems true at first sight, however, it is based on certain unwarranted assumption about the relationship between sleep and business prosperity. Therefore, in order to better evaluate the claim and analyse its logical soundness, additional explanation is required to examine the assumptions that are foundational to the line of reasoning.
First of all, are results of these 300 people comparable to other employees of a business? In other words, it is assumed that study of these 300 advertising executives are tenable for all other types of employees working in an organization. However, it may not be the case since every business has different departments and divisions, thus it requires people with different behavioural attributes. For example, a company such as Disney may not require its employees to concentrate on 6 or less than 6 hours of sleep since its advertisements are all online or through other digital channels, thus it is not required by its employees to spend extra working hours charting out door to door advertising campaigns. Further, every business is different from the other one, thus require varying amount of working hours. For example, a business concentrated on managing database of small business houses may not require its employees to put in extra working hours since they work on repetitive things and use technical tools to complete the work on time, thus it can be managed smoothly without putting in extra efforts. Therefore, without considering these details, the recommendation remains unsupported.
Secondly, are people sleeping for less than 6 hours contribute to success of a business? In other words, it is assumed that employees who sleep for less than 6 hours are actually utilising their time towards success of a business. However, it may be spurious since the research has shown that young graduates who join companies are willing to spend extra hours in office, thus making their sleeping hours less than 6, are those preparing for entrance exams for further studies but not for working towards the success of a business. Further, what and how the study covered may have an impact on the results. For example, it may find that study covered interview questions on number of sleeping hours necessary for employees of a big firm when the top management of companies were also present along with candidates, thus it may have the potential for the candidates to lie or misrepresent the facts lest would make employers cautious about the performance or intention of candidates. Therefore, unless the scope of study is not comprehensive, it cannot be used to support the claim.
Finally, are results of recent study tenable? In other words, it is assumed that this recent study explains the significant relation between sleeping hours and success of a business. However, it may find that earlier studies that were conducted with the same objective concluded that each employee should sleep for at least 7-8 hours as recommended by the medical professionals, otherwise it would impact the health and well-being of employees, thus, would have negative consequences on the performance of a business. Further, the study concluded that the business prosperity means profit margins and growth, though, it may find that businesses such as those based on engineering or IT solutions that are in start-up stage are focussed not on profit but on innovative ideas for making new products and services, thus required its employees to have recommended sleep of 7-8 hours in order to use their cognitive abilities to its optimum level. Therefore, until these unstated assumptions are verified, the argument is significantly weakened.
While concluding, the lack of comprehensive chain of reasoning, the recommendation as it stands now is considerably flawed. If it offers more evidence perhaps in the form of thoroughgoing study covering what type of employees are required for a business, employees intention for staying in the office beyond normal working hours and what constitutes prosperity for a business, then it will be possible to fully evaluate the viability of the claim.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 724 350
No. of Characters: 3674 1500
No. of Different Words: 291 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.187 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.075 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.828 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 263 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 226 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 158 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 103 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30.167 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 17.925 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.917 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.328 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.503 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.112 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus, well, while, as for, at least, for example, such as, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.6327345309 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 28.8173652695 180% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 101.0 55.5748502994 182% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3764.0 2260.96107784 166% => OK
No of words: 724.0 441.139720559 164% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19889502762 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.18721968825 4.56307096286 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93014241334 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 304.0 204.123752495 149% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.419889502762 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1156.5 705.55239521 164% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 30.0 22.8473053892 131% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 106.583789418 57.8364921388 184% => OK
Chars per sentence: 156.833333333 119.503703932 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.1666666667 23.324526521 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.54166666667 5.70786347227 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.152780444382 0.218282227539 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0570303781639 0.0743258471296 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0392555977267 0.0701772020484 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0929280892148 0.128457276422 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0351108882019 0.0628817314937 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.1 14.3799401198 126% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.03 48.3550499002 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.197005988 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 156.0 98.500998004 158% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.1389221557 126% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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