The following appeared as part of an article in a business magazine.
"A recent study rating 300 male and female Mentian 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 6 hours of sleep per night had higher profit margins and faster growth. These results suggest that if a business wants to prosper, it should hire only people who need less than 6 hours of sleep per night."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
This argument is well presented yet far-fetched. It lays a claim that each and every business to be successful should hire those advertising executives who sleep equal or less than 6 hours at night. Nevertheless, the argument is in effect unreasonable due to some flaws which can be observed through closer scrutiny, though it may appear plausible at first glance.
First of all, the argument relies on a weak correlation. The correlation alone between the sleeping hours and the productivity, scant evidence of the claimed cause and effect relationship. Perhaps, working hours throughout the day, even different working days through a week can affect the rate of successfulness of each executive. To illustrate further, a person may spend 4 hours a day but the rest of the day only devotes 2 hours to marketing due to marketing is not a time-consuming task. So, more details need to be provided and until then the argument’s suggestion lack any merit.
Secondly, one more problem with the argument involves the fact that the author potentially overestimates the circumstance and the argument is unrepresentative statistical results because the sample size is not that much large on which we can rely. In other words, the specific features of this sample community are also noteworthy. Let us look at other parameters that could involve in the survey like; the exact number of women and men, their physical condition, and the market in which they work. Also, we are not informed whether the timeframe for gathering this information has been commercially prosperous or not. Without ruling out these reasons, the argument simply cannot justify its proposal.
Finally, the author has not accounted for the possibility that the kind and category of the market, business and desire product is a significant factor. More precisely, some companies require in-person marketing staff, contrary to those who do the task by phone calls. So, the amount of energy required for these two types of business can be quite different. Absent any explanation of how and on what scope this study has compiled, I simply cannot accept the author’s claim.
To recapitulate, the author’s argument is unpersuasive as it stands. To bolster it further, the author must provide more concrete evidence, perhaps by way of a more detailed and more transparent survey, or a detailed analysis of a broader range of enterprises that benefit from skilled marketing officials. Without these changes, the argument is implausible and the reasoning is faulty.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, look, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, then, well, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2138.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 408.0 441.139720559 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24019607843 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49433085973 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02850639273 2.78398813304 109% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 204.123752495 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593137254902 0.468620217663 127% => OK
syllable_count: 669.6 705.55239521 95% => 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: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.3769749031 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.9 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.9 5.70786347227 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0805563981908 0.218282227539 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0227591338514 0.0743258471296 31% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0342652583795 0.0701772020484 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0445991588797 0.128457276422 35% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.033069578686 0.0628817314937 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 98.500998004 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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