Butter has now been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States. Only about 2 percent of customers have complained, indicating that 98 people out of 100 are happy with the change. Furthermore, many servers have reported that a number of customers who still ask for butter do not complain when they are given margarine instead. Clearly, either these customers cannot distinguish margarine from butter, or they use the term "butter" to refer to either butter or margarine. Thus, to avoid the expense of purchasing butter, the Happy Pancake House should extend this cost-saving change to its restaurants in the southeast and northeast as well.
The arguer defends a decision to replace butter with margarine in dishes of Happy Pancake House. The reasoning appears to be relatively sound at first glance. However, as more light is shed on the issue and detailed facts are concerned, it is easy to see that the argument suffers from grave fallacies in its assumptions.
First of all, the manager induces that because only 2% of clients complained, 98% are happy with this change. It is possible that majority of the 98% share are reticent and shy to speak up. The arguer does not provide any specifications of conditions the survey takes place under. It may be that customers fed with margarine will have long-term consequences and will come back to complain in future. The share of unsatisfied visitors in-retorpective will influence the current results.
In addition, it is also highly possible that those 98% were neither disgusted nor satisfied with their meal. They would have ordered more, if the first dish contained a butter. The served plates could be perceived as satisfactory but not savour. The quality stopped potentially new regular customers to come back again.
Last but not least, deception of customers with presenting of margarine as butter will eventually make a client go to a court. The manager has to include possible legal costs in the calculations of predicted profitability. Litigations may easily override the initially saved margin of the ingredients replacements.
Overall the argument is far from forceful enough to convince that all the butter in Happy Pancake House has to be replaced by margarine. Before introducing this change, the business manager has to thoroughly explore edge cases.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 272 350
No. of Characters: 1370 1500
No. of Different Words: 166 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.061 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.037 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.813 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 100 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 79 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 55 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.19 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.529 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.274 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.333 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.012 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 2 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 389, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...equences and will come back to complain in future. The share of unsatisfied visitors in-r...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, so, as to, in addition, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1409.0 2260.96107784 62% => OK
No of words: 272.0 441.139720559 62% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18014705882 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06108636974 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86292739439 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.613970588235 0.468620217663 131% => OK
syllable_count: 448.2 705.55239521 64% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => 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: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.0220827169 57.8364921388 45% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 82.8823529412 119.503703932 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.0 23.324526521 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.23529411765 5.70786347227 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.204794758166 0.218282227539 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0556501305049 0.0743258471296 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.070582164459 0.0701772020484 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104660749403 0.128457276422 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0271731276212 0.0628817314937 43% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.3799401198 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.3550499002 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.32208582834 109% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 98.500998004 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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