The following appeared in a letter from the owner of the Sunnyside Towers apartment complex to its manager.
"One month ago, all the showerheads in the first three buildings of the Sunnyside Towers complex were modified to restrict maximum water flow to one-third of what it used to be. Although actual readings of water usage before and after the adjustment are not yet available, the change will obviously result in a considerable savings for Sunnyside Corporation, since the corporation must pay for water each month. Except for a few complaints about low water pressure, no problems with showers have been reported since the adjustment. I predict that modifying showerheads to restrict water flow throughout all twelve buildings in the Sunnyside Towers complex will increase our profits even more dramatically."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
The excerpt from the letter from owner of the towers the manager seems a bit too idealistic. While it might be true that by reducing the water pressure, water wastage might decrease but by no means it is warranted that such a pressure will lead to huge profits. The owners argument is not cogent and fails to present evidence as to how the profits will increase.
To start with, the author clearly states that the readings of water usage beforeand after are not yet available, but continues to assume that it will result in considerable amount of saving. His assumption is based on just a probable guess without empirical data, a probability not necessarily means the only possibility. The question to the existence backing data fails to be answered, and without data a move to reduce water pressure in all towers becomes unwarranted.
Secondly, restricting water pressure does not clearly imply less water usage. Less pressure in the showerhead does not lead to less water being used for the shower, rather it means a longer shower. Even after the pressure has been reduced, the amount of water required by a resident to take a shower will remain the same, a resident cannot obviously leave the shower with a soapy body because the pressure of water is less, neither will less pressure prevent the resident from applying cleaning himself properly. Although it will be naive to not acknowledge that less water pressure will lead to less water wastage even though if its a fraction of what is expected by the owner.
Thirdly, even if we assume that reducing water shortage will lead to less water being used in the shower, the authors conclusion that it will lead to considerable savings is fallacious. Showerhead is just one of the water outlets in the house, he doesn't address the usage of water being at other points in the kitchen like the wash basin or the pot, or the outlets in the kitchen, or the water being used for washing clothes. Without considering the water usage here, it is simply an over-exaggeration that reducing the pressure of water in the showerhead will lead to a drastic amount of money being saved.
Additionally, reducing the water pressure might leave the residents irritated. It is important to address the complaints by the residents on whom the water-pressure-reduction was tested, as that is the feedback that the project has received, and that is the only data point, that too a negative one, for their move. Further step taken by the management to reduce water pressure across the 12 towers might lead to a revolt by the resident union, and might cause other financial impacts like residents leaving the towers unoccupied.
It is clear that restricting water pressure is not a good way to reduce the water being used, rather it might counteract in different ways. Such a move will lead to residents being agitated not only at the limited water pressure but also at the management for not answering the questions stated. Other more well researched and analysed methods can prove to be a solution, such as increasing awareness in the society to save water, or using dry pots across the towers.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 267, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'owners'' or 'owner's'?
Suggestion: owners'; owner's
...pressure will lead to huge profits. The owners argument is not cogent and fails to pre...
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Line 5, column 631, Rule ID: IT_IS[17]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...ad to less water wastage even though if its a fraction of what is expected by the o...
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Line 7, column 111, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ess water being used in the shower, the authors conclusion that it will lead to conside...
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Line 9, column 317, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Further,
...hat too a negative one, for their move. Further step taken by the management to reduce ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'third', 'thirdly', 'well', 'while', 'as to', 'such as', 'to start with']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.232876712329 0.25644967241 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.178082191781 0.15541462614 115% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0616438356164 0.0836205057962 74% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0633561643836 0.0520304965353 122% => OK
Pronouns: 0.027397260274 0.0272364105082 101% => OK
Prepositions: 0.118150684932 0.125424944231 94% => OK
Participles: 0.0736301369863 0.0416121511921 177% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.72503492731 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0376712328767 0.026700313972 141% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.128424657534 0.113004496875 114% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0325342465753 0.0255425247493 127% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00856164383562 0.0127820249294 67% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3141.0 2731.13054187 115% => OK
No of words: 535.0 446.07635468 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.87102803738 6.12365571057 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80937282943 4.57801047555 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.32523364486 0.378187486979 86% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.254205607477 0.287650121315 88% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.179439252336 0.208842608468 86% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0990654205607 0.135150697306 73% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72503492731 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 207.018472906 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.435514018692 0.469332199767 93% => OK
Word variations: 50.5562835655 52.1807786196 97% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.039408867 95% => OK
Sentence length: 28.1578947368 23.2022227129 121% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.2055904375 57.7814097925 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 165.315789474 141.986410481 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.1578947368 23.2022227129 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.684210526316 0.724660767414 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.14285714286 117% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 3.58251231527 112% => OK
Readability: 53.5784554845 51.9672348444 103% => OK
Elegance: 1.57961783439 1.8405768891 86% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.516984303616 0.441005458295 117% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.164462896528 0.135418324435 121% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0932273036934 0.0829849096947 112% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.655553529118 0.58762219726 112% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.110710899823 0.147661913831 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.260256629573 0.193483328276 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110908664843 0.0970749176394 114% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.489723077389 0.42659136922 115% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0735763806694 0.0774707102158 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.386560841472 0.312017818177 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.047450068835 0.0698173142475 68% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.33743842365 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.87684729064 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.82512315271 21% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 7.0 6.46551724138 108% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 5.36822660099 112% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 14.657635468 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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