Butter has now been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States.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 ask for butter do not complain when they are given margarine instead. Clearly, either these customers cannot distinguish butter from margarine or they use the term 'butter' to refer to either butter or margarine. Thus, to avoid the expense of purchasing butter and to increase profitability, the Happy Pancake House should extend this cost-saving change to its restaurants in the southeast and northeast as well.
The argument states that the restaurants should replace butter by margarine in order to increase profitability and provide some reasons to hold this claim. While this seems convincing on first glance there are several significant underlying flaws that raise doubt about the author’s conclusion.
First, the author unfairly assumes that since 98 out of 1oo people have had positive opinion regarding margarine, it reflects that a large majority of people have the same point of view. This result is problematic in two aspects. We are not informed who conducted the survey, if the restaurant owners have instituted this poll, the results may distorted. In addition, we are not informed whether the survey was confidential. If not, the customers may provide false information that they believed that the questioners approve of. In either case, the poll is unreliable and problematic.
Second, the author wrongly assumes that since some customers did not complain when they are given margarine so they like to consume this like butter while no evidence is offered to explain this causality. Some customers are shy and they do not complain for bad taste or using another material for preparing food, others may do not have enough time to express their complaints. Therefore, it is not true to concluded that the customers like margarine as much as they like butter because they did not complain.
In addition, the argument asserts that for gaining more benefits the restaurants in the southeast and northeast should do the same. The people interest and margarine accessibility are different region by region and people by people. In some region, restaurant can obtain a certain material easily while this is rare in other area. Consequently, the expense of buying butter are not the same therefore we cannot use this strategy for all areas even if it worked for a certain region.
The author also fails under another logical fallacy, he thinks that the expense of purchasing margarine will remain unchained. This will become more expensive rather than butter. Since increasing demands lead to an increase in price.
In sum, this argument has clear logical flaws. If the author were to provide more evidence regarding the survey, main reason of not complaining, and accessibility of margarine in different areas, his argument was more convincing.
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- School Organization 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 185, Rule ID: ON_FIRST_GLANCE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'at'?
Suggestion: at
...this claim. While this seems convincing on first glance there are several signific...
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Line 7, column 484, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...even if it worked for a certain region. The author also fails under another logi...
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Line 9, column 180, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Since” 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.
...come more expensive rather than butter. Since increasing demands lead to an increase ...
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Line 11, column 149, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...vey, main reason of not complaining, and accessibility of margarine in different ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, if, may, regarding, second, so, therefore, while, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1999.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 378.0 441.139720559 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28835978836 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40933352052 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72403670484 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537037037037 0.468620217663 115% => OK
syllable_count: 628.2 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.703018017 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.95 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.65 5.70786347227 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => 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: 0.119125739957 0.218282227539 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0350447174236 0.0743258471296 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0331208923795 0.0701772020484 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0591883668627 0.128457276422 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0271379795134 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: 12.9 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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