The following memorandum is from the business manager of Happy Pancake House restaurants.
"Recently, butter has been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States. This change, however, has had little impact on our customers. In fact, only about 2 percent of customers have complained, indicating that an average of 98 people out of 100 are happy with the change. Furthermore, many servers have reported that a number of customers who ask for butter do not complain when they are given margarine instead. Clearly, either these customers do not distinguish butter from margarine or they use the term 'butter' to refer to either butter or margarine."
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.
According to the argument, the replacement of butter with margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants had little impact on their customers.The arguer states that only 2 percent of the customers complained indicating that an average of 98 percent customers were happy with the change.The arguer further states that, servers have reported that a number of customers who asked for butter didn't complain when they got margarine instead indicating thet either the customers didin't distinguish between the two or they meant either butter or margarine when they asked for butter.The argument unfortunately is based on incomplete information and false assumotions due to which the reasoning provided is flawed.
Firstly, the argument states that of all the customers only 2 percemt of them complained about the change, assuming the rest were happy.However, not complaining is not equivalent to happy.Maybe most of the customers weren't happy with the change and instead of complaining, they stopped visiting the restaurant alltogether.Since, the argument doesn't provide information about the percentage of regular visitors that contiued to come the restaurant even after the change took place.The restaurant should conduct a survey among the visitors inorder to determine, if they like butter of margarine and then make decision instead of falsely assuming that the customers are happy.
Secondly, the servers claims of customers not complaining when they recieve margarine instead.But in how many of the restauants across the southwest region, it is happening is not mentioned.Maybe, only in one or two restaurants this situation is occuring and the situation of the rest of the restaurants is the opposite.without complete information, the claim of margarine being is hit is is flase.The restaurants instead of replacing butter across the region should target area where people are fond of margarine.Then, the chances of replacement could be a success.
Hence, due to the above reasons stated above, it would be false and rash to claim the customers are happy with the replacement of butter with margarine without complete information .
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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: 15 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 15 2
No. of Sentences: 7 15
No. of Words: 342 350
No. of Characters: 1770 1500
No. of Different Words: 156 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.3 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.175 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.815 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 135 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 102 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 75 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 57 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 48.857 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 27.116 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.714 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.466 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.742 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.111 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...nt customers were happy with the change.The arguer further states that, servers hav...
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...nt to happy.Maybe most of the customers werent happy with the change and instead of co...
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...thout complete information, the claim of margarine being is hit is is flase.The r...
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...h margarine without complete information .
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1812.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 327.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.54128440367 5.12650576532 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14097197338 2.78398813304 113% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.501529051988 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 559.8 705.55239521 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 4.0 19.7664670659 20% => 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: 81.0 22.8473053892 355% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 207.873008108 57.8364921388 359% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 453.0 119.503703932 379% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 81.75 23.324526521 350% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 18.0 5.70786347227 315% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 18.0 5.25449101796 343% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.233025075569 0.218282227539 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143205223672 0.0743258471296 193% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0360981609045 0.0701772020484 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.143205223672 0.128457276422 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0360981609045 0.0628817314937 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 45.5 14.3799401198 316% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -19.2 48.3550499002 -40% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 14.6 7.1628742515 204% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 36.1 12.197005988 296% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 16.04 12.5979740519 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 11.61 8.32208582834 140% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 57.0 12.3882235529 460% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 34.4 11.1389221557 309% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 57.0 11.9071856287 479% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
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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