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
The letter from the homeowner to a friend suggests that Adams realty is the superior real estate agency as compared to Fitch realty. The support he gives for this is that Adam’s home sales averaged around 168,000 whereas Fitch averaged at 144,000. He also added that homes listed on Adam’s sell much faster than those listed on Fitch. However, there are a few unstated assumptions that must be answered for this recommendation.
Firstly, the homeowner mentions that the average sales for Adam’s is around $168,000. He doesn’t mention the range of the prices in which the homes were sold. It could be in a set of 10 houses sold, only one house was sold at an exorbitant price while the rest 9 were cheaply priced. If this is the case, then that one house price becomes an outlier in that 10-price set which automatically offsets and increases the average. It could also be that Fitch on the other hand has been consistent in the prices at which the houses listed are sold. There are no outlying values in Fitch’s dataset to offset their average house sales. If the above is true, then the argument does not hold water.
Secondly, the homeowner mentions that the house he listed on Fitch ten years back took 10 months to sell. However, he does not mention the economic conditions of the people and town ten years back. Maybe there was an inflation forcing people to spend miserly and not buy a new house. On the other hand, the homeowner is comparing a situation that was 10 years back to the current situation. He doesn’t mention the changes in the different parameters that have constituted in the house sales in the span of 10 years. If the above is true, then then argument is considerably flawed.
Lastly, what if people do want to sell their houses on Fitch but instead, they want to rent them out. Now days, renting someone’s house is also major source of income that people consider. It could be that Fitch has a platform as well that focuses on renting different houses rather than selling them. They could be receiving clients on a rental basis and if a house does not receive tenants for a considerable period of time, then Fitch decides to put the house on sale. This could also be the reason why houses on Fitch take a longer time to sell than on Adam’s. However, Fitch provides its customers with a business model where the customers can have a steady source of income on a monthly basis. If the above, is true then the argument needs to be considered again.
As of now, the argument is flawed based on the above unstated assumptions. Perhaps if the homeowner can provide a comprehensive study of the type of houses sold on Adam and Fitch and also provide a better reasoning for why the house took 4 months to be sold 10 years back and if the same is put on sale again on Fitch, how much time it will take to be sold again. After then, the argument can be then considered again.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 26 15
No. of Words: 525 350
No. of Characters: 2316 1500
No. of Different Words: 216 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.787 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.411 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.284 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 140 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 54 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.192 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.422 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.769 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.29 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.29 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.123 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 538, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: then
...span of 10 years. If the above is true, then then argument is considerably flawed. Lastl...
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Line 4, column 411, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
... not receive tenants for a considerable period of time, then Fitch decides to put the house on...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, then, well, whereas, while, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2388.0 2260.96107784 106% => OK
No of words: 523.0 441.139720559 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.56596558317 5.12650576532 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78217453174 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38606626616 2.78398813304 86% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 204.123752495 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.441682600382 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 729.9 705.55239521 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
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: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.4116545709 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.4444444444 119.503703932 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3703703704 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.44444444444 5.70786347227 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.67664670659 278% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.151405149471 0.218282227539 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.048547921357 0.0743258471296 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0938002456954 0.0701772020484 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102634632522 0.128457276422 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0921131139117 0.0628817314937 146% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.8 14.3799401198 68% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 48.3550499002 143% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 12.197005988 68% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.23 12.5979740519 73% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.51 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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