The following appeared as part of an article in a business magazine.
"A recent study rating 300 male and female advertising executives according to the average number of hours they sleep per night showed an association between the amount of sleep the executives need and the success of their firms. Of the advertising firms studied, those whose executives reported needing no more than six hours of sleep per night had higher profit margins and faster growth. On the basis of this study, we recommend that businesses hire only people who need less than six hours of sleep per night."
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.
The argument that business should higher people who need less than six hours of sleep per night makes a number of unstated assumptions regarding hiring people with less than six hours sleep leading to higher profit margins and faster growth. Taken as a whole, these unstated assumptions renders the argument highly suspect. Indeed, if these unstated assumptions do not hold, the argument totally falls apart.
Firstly, the argument failed to show correlation between executives sleeping hours per night, and higher profit and faster growth. This renders the argument susceptible as no connection was shown between executives sleeping time and business growth. The author needs to ask how sleeping time of the executives relates to business growth. The author also needs to ask if the executives have other programs that keeps the firm running while they sleep, thereby leading to higher profit margin and faster growth. If it is shown that the executives have other planned programs running while they sleep, then the argument will be rendered valid.
Secondly, the argument assumes executives who need less than six hours of sleep per night work towards the company’s increased in profit margin and faster growth. This is a flawed assumptions that requires the author to question its validity. The author needs to question what the management who needs less than six hours sleep per night do with the remaining hours they are awake. Are they working towards the company’s growth or they are engaged in other business of theirs? If it cannot be ascertained that this executives spend the remaning night rest time working for the company, then argument is rendered invalid.
Further, another leap in the argument is that the argument fails to show how the study was carried out. This weakens the argument and can be strengthened by asking for the specific number of males and females advertising executives that were surveyed. The author needs to question the amount of people that responded to the survey. For this argument to be strengthened, the author needs to question if survey was carried on larger scale. If it was found out that the survey was also done on a larger scale and it yielded the same result as that of the present scale, then the argument will be valid.
In conclusion, the argument that hiring people who need less than six hours sleep per night will lead to increase a firm’s success makes numerous unwarranted assumptions that seriously impairs its validity. Unless these unstated assumptions are addressed, the argument totally falls apart. Thus, business might be making a major mistake by hiring people who sleeps less than six hours per night.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 90, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...d less than six hours of sleep per night work towards the company’s increased in ...
^^
Line 5, column 182, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'assumption'?
Suggestion: assumption
...gin and faster growth. This is a flawed assumptions that requires the author to question it...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 512, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...heirs? If it cannot be ascertained that this executives spend the remaning night res...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, thus, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 55.5748502994 67% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2250.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 439.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12528473804 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57737117129 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46410925356 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.387243735763 0.468620217663 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 660.6 705.55239521 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.4591579842 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.142857143 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9047619048 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.33333333333 5.70786347227 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.226170891446 0.218282227539 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0863907446768 0.0743258471296 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0697996728346 0.0701772020484 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141877004457 0.128457276422 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.060931481527 0.0628817314937 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.43 8.32208582834 89% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 98.500998004 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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 5, column 90, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...d less than six hours of sleep per night work towards the company’s increased in ...
^^
Line 5, column 182, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'assumption'?
Suggestion: assumption
...gin and faster growth. This is a flawed assumptions that requires the author to question it...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 512, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...heirs? If it cannot be ascertained that this executives spend the remaning night res...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, thus, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 55.5748502994 67% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2250.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 439.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12528473804 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57737117129 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46410925356 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.387243735763 0.468620217663 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 660.6 705.55239521 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.4591579842 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.142857143 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9047619048 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.33333333333 5.70786347227 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.226170891446 0.218282227539 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0863907446768 0.0743258471296 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0697996728346 0.0701772020484 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141877004457 0.128457276422 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.060931481527 0.0628817314937 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.43 8.32208582834 89% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 98.500998004 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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.