"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."
Describe how well the reasoning is in this. In the discussion be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. For example, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking and what alternative explanations or counter examples might weaken the arguments's conclusion. You may also address possible changes in the argument that would make it more logically sound and would help you to better evaluate its conclusion.
The political consultant advices the politician in terms of certain matters of political and administrative issues regarding the elimination of rent control regulation. While considering this issue separately, we realize that eliminating rent control strategies is rather an effective way to reduce the pressure on the people who live in rented apartments, giving them time and space to pay their rents when they are in a financially good position. Additionally, it also reduces some conditions and cases of bribing, black money and threatening.
But, here the consultant has substantiated his argument on the foundation of statistics that only 200 people who are apartment renters among a population of 20,000 have protested regarding the matter in the rain. This number is something the politician must not be worried about and hence should go a step further with the policy. But, this cannot be considered as the only reason as to why only 200 people protested, though it might be a cause. It could be quite possible that the weather was a cold, rainy day and there was a high potential that people might fall sick on such a day if outdoors for a long while. Furthermore, we also are not sure whether this protest happened on a working or a non-working day and whether the information about this particular policy had reached all of the general public or not. For instance, it is possible that the idea regarding such a policy was initiated the day before and only a minor group of people who were aware and had some connections within the government were aware and decided to start at least a small spark regarding such a policy, hoping it may grow in proportion for the days to come.
Furthermore, the claim that the rest 19,800 who did not protest represents the population who were in favour of it cannot be totally true. The consultant cannot be totally sure that the whole of this population is totally fine with this reform. There are chances that there is a lack of clear communication among the public and they are yet to know the complete scenario of the policy and do not want to jump to conclusions. They want to get a complete picture of what exactly is on their plate and then decide their own course of action based on communication and talks. For example, there is no clear cut claim in the argument about a proper timeline of events regarding when the particular policy was sanctioned and after how long are they recording the effects.
Thus, all these reasons as mentioned above, need to be considered before directly concluding that there won’t be any problem on issuing such a policy of elimination of rent control regulation. After all, the government should remember that he is dealing with the people here who have their own interests, opinions, objections and mood swings and any policy or reform will undergo abundant number of hit and trail errors before passing it successfully.
Thus, according to me, the information given in this argument by the consultant is partially right but nevertheless is not enough to decide whether the politician should oversee such a small protest. A reliable conclusion will require more data.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK, but more, like: maybe people protest by other alternatives such as Emails, forums, courts...
argument 3 -- not OK. It is like an issue argument. we may argue like:
maybe more people will protest next time.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 537 350
No. of Characters: 2580 1500
No. of Different Words: 261 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.814 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.804 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.705 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 178 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 127 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 88 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 69 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.833 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.899 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.833 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.285 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.486 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.082 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 110, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
...tion of statistics that only 200 people who are apartment renters among a population of...
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Line 4, column 783, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...bout this particular policy had reached all of the general public or not. For instance, it...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 794, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...articular policy had reached all of the general public or not. For instance, it is possible th...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 8, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...long are they recording the effects. Thus, all these reasons as mentioned abo...
^^
Line 9, column 100, Rule ID: BUT_NEVERTHELESS[1]
Message: Use simply 'but'.
Suggestion: but
...nt by the consultant is partially right but nevertheless is not enough to decide whether the pol...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, hence, if, may, nevertheless, regarding, so, then, thus, while, after all, as to, at least, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 11.1786427146 206% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 28.8173652695 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2639.0 2260.96107784 117% => OK
No of words: 536.0 441.139720559 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92350746269 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81161862636 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77868539632 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 261.0 204.123752495 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.486940298507 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 836.1 705.55239521 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 67.0929197199 57.8364921388 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.611111111 119.503703932 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.7777777778 23.324526521 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.83333333333 5.70786347227 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.172928547107 0.218282227539 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0522185843536 0.0743258471296 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0634830106984 0.0701772020484 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0865432131774 0.128457276422 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0433705216505 0.0628817314937 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 48.3550499002 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.85 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 98.500998004 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 12.3882235529 125% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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