The following appeared in a health newsletter.
"Nosinia is an herb that many users report to be as effective as prescription medications at fighting allergy symptoms. Researchers recently compared Nosinia to a placebo in 95 men and women with seasonal allergies to ragweed pollen. Participants in the study reported that neither Nosinia nor the placebo offered significant relief. However, for the most severe allergy symptoms, the researchers reported that Nosinia was more effective than the placebo in providing relief. Furthermore, at the end of the study, participants given Nosinia were more likely than participants given a placebo to report feeling healthier.We therefore recommend using Nosinia to help with your severe allergy symptoms.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
As per the health newsletter, the Researchers recommend use of Nosinia for curing the the allergy symptoms as a conclusion of a study undertaken by them. But, the newsletter fails to provide the evidence in which we can definitely claim that Nasinia would work effectively as an anti-allergic. Following the are the assumptions which needs to be answered.
Firstly, while researching a new medical breakthrough, even if it is highly promising, we need to diligently and meticulously test it's implications, as well as predict and note down the side effects it can have on a patient. But, the study undertaken for Nosinia as an anti-allergic is not credible. As it is only incorporating 95 people as the dataset for extrapolating the conclusions. There is no info provided regarding the medical history of these people, the severity of their allergy, and the climate in which the drug is used. Therefore, these unanswered questions and the lack of evidence casts a serious doubt in the effectiveness of the study which favours the use of Nosinia as a trustworthy cure for the allergy. Instead solving the problem Nosinia might cause more trouble or in some unfortunate cases might be fatal.
Secondly, the newsletter states that neither the Nosinia nor the placebo rendered significant relief to the patients of mild allergies. But, later on it is mentioned in that newsletter that in most severe allergy symptoms, Nosinia turned out to be effective. There is no substantial evidence provided why the Nosinia was effective in severe allergies but not in mild allergies, what was the extent of severity or the medical history of these patients. Maybe this effectiveness of Nosinia on the severe allergy patients might be a medical anomaly. Or the immune system might be successful in working against the allergy by itself. All these points needs to be verified before coming to a definite conclusion regarding the use of Nosinia. Therefore the author of the newsletter should provide evidence for answering the above questions.
Lastly, the newsletter states that the patients treated with Nosinia were feeling healtier. But this is a very dubious term, Just because a patient is feeling healthier does not mean the disease has been treated completely and the patient is healthy. There should be tests undertaken to justify this claim. Or the patient should be kept under observation, so that symptoms do not come up again in future. Thus the claim that patients are feeling healthy is not good enough to substantiate the use of Nosinia. Therefore the author of the newsletter should provide more trustworthy evidence for it.
Conclusively, there are a lot of assumptions which are incorporated by the study which is prescribing the use of Nosinia, and needs to substantiated with evidences to hold water.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 459 350
No. of Characters: 2299 1500
No. of Different Words: 204 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.629 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.009 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.892 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 173 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 145 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 86 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 62 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.957 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.721 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.652 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.297 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.481 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.067 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: the
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Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
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... a new medical breakthrough, even if it is highly promising, we need to diligently and meticulously...
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Suggestion: Instead,
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...nia turned out to be effective. There is no substantial evidence provided why the...
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Suggestion: Therefore,
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Suggestion: in the future
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Suggestion: Therefore,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, lastly, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, well, while, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2356.0 2260.96107784 104% => OK
No of words: 459.0 441.139720559 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13289760349 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62863751936 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98017715083 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 204.123752495 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477124183007 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 749.7 705.55239521 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.1954329642 57.8364921388 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.434782609 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9565217391 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.82608695652 5.70786347227 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.252743719713 0.218282227539 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0796131761175 0.0743258471296 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0486787909196 0.0701772020484 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144647617512 0.128457276422 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0570775656339 0.0628817314937 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 98.500998004 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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