The following advice was given to a politician by his political consultant:
It is true that 200 apartment renters protested in the rain about the elimination of rent control regulation. However, there are 20,000 renters in the entire city. 19,800 of them stayed home and did not protest. The group that did not protest is much larger and better represents the opinion of renters throughout the city: that the elimination of rent control is not a problem. You should not let the small protest discourage you.”
The political consultant had advised the politician assuming the fact that the resentment shown by the minority does not portray the opinion of the majority of the persons. This judgement made by the advisor fails in many ways because it does not take into account the various social as well as the environmental condition of the protest.
Firstly, the protest was done in the rain, which might discourage many people for participating in the protest and raising their voices. Secondly, elimination of rent control means that the people have to pay more money for their accommodation. Generally, people does not like to pay more money for the same thing than they are already paying. Out of the 20,000 people in the city perhaps 200 people would have found it difficult to make their ends meet, if the rent control was eliminated. For them it might have been a burning issue, but it does not mean it is not affecting the other 19,800 persons of the city. It would affect all of them, but not so much bothering that they would protest in the rain. Thirdly, most people generally have a laid back attitude about protests which in turn causes them not participate actively in protests although the issue bothers them. Fourthly, one more probable cause of many persons not participating in the protest was that they did not consider it was worth protesting against rent control not going to their respective jobs as being absent from their jobs and protesting against rent control elimination and finally perhaps some people believed that protesting against the issue would not have solved the issue.
Taking all these factors into consideration, one could fairly conclude that the argument is very weak and fails in multiple fronts. The assumption that the minority does not always represent the majority sentiment is false.
A better way of understanding the fact that whether rent control elimination affects or not the majority people would have been through a more systematic and researched approach. The consultant should have taken into account multiple factors before making such a judgement. These factors include the living costs in the city, the average income of the apartment renters, the jobs of those apartment dwellers, and their average expenses per month.
After considering these factors, if it was understood that rent control elimination would not affect the majority people, it can be concluded it was not the opinion of majority people and the politician should not focus on it and not solely on the fact that since only 200 persons protested against it.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 428 350
No. of Characters: 2111 1500
No. of Different Words: 197 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.548 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.932 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.503 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 147 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.75 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.382 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.562 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.346 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.577 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.123 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 280, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tion. Generally, people does not like to pay more money for the same thing than t...
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Line 3, column 781, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...have a laid back attitude about protests which in turn causes them not participat...
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Line 9, column 36, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... After considering these factors, if it was understood that rent control elim...
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Line 9, column 95, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... that rent control elimination would not affect the majority people, it can be co...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, well, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 28.8173652695 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2158.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 428.0 441.139720559 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04205607477 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.548423998 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56139138508 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478971962617 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 657.9 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.512968672 57.8364921388 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.875 119.503703932 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.75 23.324526521 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 5.70786347227 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211183003973 0.218282227539 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0689183755754 0.0743258471296 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0490381994568 0.0701772020484 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0953849029843 0.128457276422 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0666980945515 0.0628817314937 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.3799401198 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 98.500998004 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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