The author concludes that relaxed pace of life in Leeville allows its residents to live longer and healthier lives. This conclusion is supported by the evidence about the hectic life and comparatively higher sickness among citizen's in the nearby large city of Masonton as well as the presence of less physician in Leeville than larger town of Masonton. While the author's justification might ultimately prove valid, three alternative explanation must also be considered that might account for the observations in the prompt.
First of all, the author presumes that people in small town of Leeville are not sick based on their leaves taken. Perhaps Leeville being a small town there is no as much work load hence people consider coming to work instead of taking sick leaves. It is possible that people working in Leeville are frequently sick and are simply habitual of not reporting about their sickness and coming to work. If the above case is true then the conclusion that relaxed paced life allows better and healthier life does not hold water.
Second of all, the higher presence of physician’s in Masonton can be due to other reasons. Maybe Masonton is infamously known for its health care facilities because of which many older and sick people tend to reside in Masonton which accounts for its major population. Furthermore, Leeville having one physician for its one thousand residents is because residents in Leeville perhaps prefer to take healthcare facilities from bigger towns like Masonton where the health care service is efficient and cost-effective than the one they are getting in Leeville. If the above scenario holds merit it significantly weakens the persuasiveness of the argument.
Lastly, the average age of Leeville residents does not clearly indicate, that calm and relaxed pace lifestyle is the reason for their longer and healthier lives. The higher average age can be due to several other factors. Perhaps that many of the residents of Leeville were Marines and hence were living a very physically active lifestyle and their longer age has nothing to do with the calmness of the town of Leeville. If anyone of the above cases is true, the argument is not overly persuasive.
In conclusion, while the author may not be evaluating the given situation regarding longer lives of people of Leeville in its entirety, the conclusion and information associated with it cannot be written off either. There is no smoke without fire and the author must have had compelling reasons to make such a strong conclusion, however, since the reasons have not listed here the argument as it stands, cannot be said holistically. More evidence is needed to make the given argument stronger.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 364, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...than larger town of Masonton. While the authors justification might ultimately prove va...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 160, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...ps Leeville being a small town there is no as much work load hence people consider...
^^
Line 3, column 559, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...n the one they are getting in Leeville. If the above scenario holds merit it signi...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, lastly, may, regarding, second, so, then, well, while, in conclusion, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2263.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 443.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10835214447 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58776254615 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68403461305 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 204.123752495 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.48532731377 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 727.2 705.55239521 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.5879134784 57.8364921388 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.722222222 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6111111111 23.324526521 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.77777777778 5.70786347227 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.22867607531 0.218282227539 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0725443428886 0.0743258471296 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0767291598833 0.0701772020484 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128193173809 0.128457276422 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0977039176567 0.0628817314937 155% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 364, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...than larger town of Masonton. While the authors justification might ultimately prove va...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 160, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...ps Leeville being a small town there is no as much work load hence people consider...
^^
Line 3, column 559, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...n the one they are getting in Leeville. If the above scenario holds merit it signi...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, lastly, may, regarding, second, so, then, well, while, in conclusion, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2263.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 443.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10835214447 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58776254615 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68403461305 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 204.123752495 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.48532731377 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 727.2 705.55239521 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.5879134784 57.8364921388 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.722222222 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6111111111 23.324526521 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.77777777778 5.70786347227 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.22867607531 0.218282227539 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0725443428886 0.0743258471296 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0767291598833 0.0701772020484 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128193173809 0.128457276422 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0977039176567 0.0628817314937 155% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.