The following appeared in a letter from a homeowner to a friend.
"Of the two leading real estate firms in our town — Adams Realty and Fitch Realty — Adams Realty is clearly superior. Adams has 40 real estate agents; in contrast, Fitch has 25, many of whom work only part-time. Moreover, Adams' revenue last year was twice as high as that of Fitch and included home sales that averaged $168,000, compared to Fitch's $144,000. Homes listed with Adams sell faster as well: ten years ago I listed my home with Fitch, and it took more than four months to sell; last year, when I sold another home, I listed it with Adams, and it took only one month. Thus, if you want to sell your home quickly and at a good price, you should use Adams Realty."
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.
In the letter to the homeowner has concluded that out of the two real estate firms— Adams Realty and Fitch Realty — Adams Realty is a clear superior, however he makes many unwarranted assumptions in the process, which needs to be answered for the conclusion to hold true.
Firstly, the fact that Adams has 40 real estate agents and Fitch has 25 is questionable, as it is not supported by any evidence, it might be possible that Fitch has more number of agents. Another part of the above assumption is that many agents in Fitch work part time,which is another questionable fact as well as here productivity is directly compared to the time which is not true as many people work less and are much more productive than people working for long hours for example Jeff Bezoz works for only 6 hours daily and has been able to lead Amazon for more than 2 decades.
Secondly the homeowner also states that Adams' revenue last year was twice as high as that of Fitch and included home sales that averaged $168,000, compared to Fitch's $144,000, the stated fact is itself questionable whether the revenue generated by the two companies are gathered from a genuine source. Also the assumption that revenue of the company is directly proportional to sell homes faster and at a higher price is not very logical, it might be possible that the company was selling more homes at a higher rate and charging less brokerage or even investing their money to bring in more customers aiming at a long term profit.
Thirdly the homeowner also states that ten years ago he listed his home with Fitch, and it took more than four months to sell; last year, when he sold another home, he listed it with Adams, and it took only one month, he compares the time taken to sell the house between the two companies at different times. It might be possible that Fitch has become even more successful as a company and has evolved even bigger than Adams.
The homeowner has made many unwarranted assumptions which needs to be verified before drawing a conclusion, many facts were stated which are definitely not supported by any sources as well as many comparisons have been made which does not seem logical thus the conclusion that Adams is better than Fitch does not hold true.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 8 15
No. of Words: 396 350
No. of Characters: 1814 1500
No. of Different Words: 179 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.461 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.581 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.347 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 108 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 77 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 49 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 49.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.849 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.875 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.483 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.794 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.125 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 260, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: part-time
...ption is that many agents in Fitch work part time,which is another questionable fact as w...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 269, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , which
...that many agents in Fitch work part time,which is another questionable fact as well as...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 299, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...ies are gathered from a genuine source. Also the assumption that revenue of the comp...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, well, for example, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.9520958084 23% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 55.5748502994 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 3.0 16.3942115768 18% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1856.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 396.0 441.139720559 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.68686868687 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46091344257 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41220046864 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.472222222222 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 577.8 705.55239521 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 19.7664670659 40% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 49.0 22.8473053892 214% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 82.0623809976 57.8364921388 142% => OK
Chars per sentence: 232.0 119.503703932 194% => OK
Words per sentence: 49.5 23.324526521 212% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 13.5 5.70786347227 237% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.252043260629 0.218282227539 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136304416598 0.0743258471296 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.15288899859 0.0701772020484 218% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168138299038 0.128457276422 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.158565371987 0.0628817314937 252% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 25.4 14.3799401198 177% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.2 48.3550499002 62% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 21.2 12.197005988 174% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.81 12.5979740519 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 98.500998004 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 21.6 11.1389221557 194% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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