A recently issued twenty-year study on headaches suffered by the residents of Mentia investigated the possible therapeutic effect of consuming salicylates. Salicylates are members of the same chemical family as aspirin, a medicine used to treat headaches. Although many foods are naturally rich in salicylates, food-processing companies also add salicylates to foods as preservatives. The twenty-year study found a correlation between the rise in the commercial use of salicylates and a steady decline in the average number of headaches reported by study participants. At the time when the study concluded, food-processing companies had just discovered that salicylates can also be used as flavor additives for foods, and, as a result, many companies plan to do so. Based on these study results, some health experts predict that residents of Mentia will suffer even fewer headaches in the future.
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 argument attempts to bridge a relationship between the higher commercial use of salicylates and decrease in average number of headaches. The conclusion is based on the premises of a recently issued 20 years study on residents of Mentia. However on deeper analysis, there are certain important questions unanswered and facts unnoticed, leading to a number of mistaken assumptions and logical flaws.
One such flaw is that, the scope and validity of the study is not clear. The questions regarding the number of participants in the study, the type of experiments done to find out the therapeutic effect of salicylates are not answered. Who knows, may be the study was funded by the salicylates businessperson, to boost up their selling. So, without answering the background of the study and the type of experiment that has been done to find out the effect, the study can not reach to a conclusion like that with certainty.
Additionally, the report says that there are a correlation between the rise in the commercial use of salcylates and a steady decline in the average number of headaches reported by study participants, but that statement does not specify any strong positive or negative correlation between them. As, before eating, we clean our food by water, that is how, most of the preservative can be washed away and as well as salicylates used in preserving food may not enter the body. Again, the people examined can get salicylates/aspirin from some other sources rather than food preservatives. There are strong possibility that the people were taking aspirin or other chemical of the same family as they were suffering from headache. So, ignoring the above facts and assuming that decline in headache is caused by salicylates in food preservatives, seriously undermines the conclusion of the argument.
Similarly, the assumption that the food-processing companies had just discovered that salicylates can also be used as flavor additives for foods, and, as a result, many companies plan to do so is not backed up by any strong evidence. Maybe salicylates can be used as flavor additives but we do not know whether the existing flavor additives is more or less costly than salicylates. If existing additives are less costly, than why should the companies invest extra money to get the same function from an alternatives?. So, that question of viability of salicylates as a replacement has not been answered, which makes the argument further unstable.
So, to conclude, the argument lacks information and seems to provide inchoate assumptions. The report must have presented more concrete evidence to substantiate the claim and to make the argument more cogent.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 282, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'salicylates'' or 'salicylate's'?
Suggestion: salicylates'; salicylate's
...ows, may be the study was funded by the salicylates businessperson, to boost up their selli...
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Line 5, column 48, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'correlations'?
Suggestion: correlations
...nally, the report says that there are a correlation between the rise in the commercial use ...
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Line 5, column 725, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...y as they were suffering from headache. So, ignoring the above facts and assumin...
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Line 7, column 501, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'an alternative' or simply 'alternatives'?
Suggestion: an alternative; alternatives
...tra money to get the same function from an alternatives?. So, that question of viability of sal...
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Line 8, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...h makes the argument further unstable. So, to conclude, the argument lacks info...
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Line 9, column 196, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tiate the claim and to make the argument more cogent.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'regarding', 'similarly', 'so', 'well', 'as a result', 'as well as', 'more or less']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.235416666667 0.25644967241 92% => OK
Verbs: 0.166666666667 0.15541462614 107% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0770833333333 0.0836205057962 92% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0625 0.0520304965353 120% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0125 0.0272364105082 46% => OK
Prepositions: 0.127083333333 0.125424944231 101% => OK
Participles: 0.0583333333333 0.0416121511921 140% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.0712471608 2.79052419416 110% => OK
Infinitives: 0.025 0.026700313972 94% => OK
Particles: 0.00833333333333 0.001811407834 460% => OK
Determiners: 0.116666666667 0.113004496875 103% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.01875 0.0255425247493 73% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0125 0.0127820249294 98% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2687.0 2731.13054187 98% => OK
No of words: 435.0 446.07635468 98% => OK
Chars per words: 6.17701149425 6.12365571057 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56690854021 4.57801047555 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.372413793103 0.378187486979 98% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.285057471264 0.287650121315 99% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.229885057471 0.208842608468 110% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.170114942529 0.135150697306 126% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0712471608 2.79052419416 110% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 207.018472906 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51724137931 0.469332199767 110% => OK
Word variations: 58.9735037286 52.1807786196 113% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 20.039408867 90% => OK
Sentence length: 24.1666666667 23.2022227129 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.6895110787 57.7814097925 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.277777778 141.986410481 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1666666667 23.2022227129 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.666666666667 0.724660767414 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 3.58251231527 167% => OK
Readability: 52.6724137931 51.9672348444 101% => OK
Elegance: 1.74137931034 1.8405768891 95% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.505162169291 0.441005458295 115% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.147160498583 0.135418324435 109% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0700432350656 0.0829849096947 84% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.631111107603 0.58762219726 107% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.128837761344 0.147661913831 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.221692248935 0.193483328276 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0951875615571 0.0970749176394 98% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.412082647176 0.42659136922 97% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.108695063136 0.0774707102158 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.329240724605 0.312017818177 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0963635547883 0.0698173142475 138% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.33743842365 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.87684729064 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.82512315271 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 6.46551724138 108% => OK
Negative topic words: 8.0 5.36822660099 149% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 14.657635468 116% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 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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