The following appeared as part of an article in a business magazine.
"A recent study rating 300 male and female Mentian advertising executives according to the average number of hours they sleep per night showed an association between the amount of sleep the executives need and the success of their firms. Of the advertising firms studied, those whose executives reported needing no more than 6 hours of sleep per night had higher profit margins and faster growth. These results suggest that if a business wants to prosper, it should hire only people who need less than 6 hours of sleep per night."
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 following argument which has been stated if flawed for a numerous reasons, It assumes that the number of hours of sleep is the sole factor that is determining the productivity of employees in these advertising firms.
The arguments fails to provide any proof whatsoever that the number of hours of sleep is the only factor determining the output of the employees of these firms. Hard work, Soft skills and efficiency play a vital role in the daily output as well. Had the argument mentioned that the number of hours of sleep is absolutely vital and the sole cause for growth, The conclusion based on the premises would be justified.
Moreover, This argument assumes that the entire target pool of candidates that are within the domain of needing less than 6 hours of sleep per night are relevant to the advertising companies requirement, They may sleep lesser than other individuals but if they do not have any experience or basic knowledge about the advertising sector, Hiring them would be absolutely redundant. Had it been mentioned that the pool of candidates would only consist of people who have advertising relevant skills and sleep less than 6 hours a day, The argument would be more compelling.
Another assumption is the fact that the working hours of these advertising companies is during the regular day hours, It's ambiguous whether the companies mentioned in the aforementioned argument are following regular day hours or are working late into the night or maybe working only at night, Any discrepancy here which is working late or late into the night could render the argument completely invalid. The argument should have mentioned whether the current pool data is solely from day shifts or whether its a mixture of employees working at variable timings so that we could get a better picture while analyzing it.
Because this argument makes a good number of unwarranted assumptions, We can conclude that they strategy will fail to pan out if a company employs this without doing enough research.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 71, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'reason'?
Suggestion: reason
...as been stated if flawed for a numerous reasons, It assumes that the number of hours of...
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Line 3, column 15, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'fail'.
Suggestion: fail
...ese advertising firms. The arguments fails to provide any proof whatsoever that th...
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Line 7, column 515, Rule ID: IT_IS[17]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...ta is solely from day shifts or whether its a mixture of employees working at varia...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, moreover, so, well, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 55.5748502994 61% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1698.0 2260.96107784 75% => OK
No of words: 336.0 441.139720559 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05357142857 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28139028586 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68372520061 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 204.123752495 80% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.488095238095 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 520.2 705.55239521 74% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 19.7664670659 46% => Need more sentences, or put a space between two sentences.
Sentence length: 37.0 22.8473053892 162% => OK
Sentence length SD: 99.3993069504 57.8364921388 172% => OK
Chars per sentence: 188.666666667 119.503703932 158% => OK
Words per sentence: 37.3333333333 23.324526521 160% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.33333333333 5.70786347227 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
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: 0.156487949339 0.218282227539 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0720947187057 0.0743258471296 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0492239499652 0.0701772020484 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0926171199676 0.128457276422 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0394557034385 0.0628817314937 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 21.0 14.3799401198 146% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.38 48.3550499002 88% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.5 12.197005988 135% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.8 11.1389221557 151% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 11.9071856287 143% => OK
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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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