Green tea has long been hailed as an excellent source of antioxidants, powerful anti-aging and immune-system boosting compounds. Many people therefore believe that the more cups they consume each day, the greater the benefits. Green tea, however, contains moderate amounts of caffeine, a stimulant that is not without side effects, including sleeplessness, irritability, and headaches. A long-term study has found that those who drink more than three cups of green tea a day are likely to have symptoms similar to those that chronic coffee drinkers, another source of caffeine, suffer. Therefore, it is important that anyone who chooses to drink green tea limit their intake to no more than two cups a day.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The argument mentions the benefits of consuming green tea and also mentions the potential side effects caused due to excessive consumption. It mentions that one should not consume more than two cups of green tea to avoid any symptoms similar to those of chronic coffee drinkers. However, the argument is vague and needs addressing of subtleties to be reliable.
The most fundamental flaw in the argument is quantifying the amount of green tea or coffee consumed in the terms of number of cups per day. This method to quantify the amount of coffee or green tea is vague. The cup size varies from person to person and even from different regions. The Greek type of the coffee cup differs from the common types of tea cups used in England, in the sense that the Greek type is more in size than those in England. This simple difference makes a huge difference in the amount of green tea consumed each day, thus weakening the argument.
Another subtle fault in mentioning the quantity of coffee or tea is mentioning it in terms of volume of liquid. Even though two people take 200 millilitres of coffee each day, the quantity of coffee they consume can differ in terms of concentration. Of the two, one might take a strong concentrated coffee and another might take a low concentration of coffee. Thus, the amount of coffee or green tea consumed should not be mentioned in terms of volume, but in terms of concentration of grams consumed each day. This will remove any ambiguity in understanding what quantity of green tea can be harmful.
Green tea contains caffeine along with other constituents which are sources of antioxidants and powerful anti-aging compounds. In contrast, coffee mainly contains solely caffeine. There can be a possibility that the other constituents of green tea prevent the side effects of caffeine, thus making green tea harmless, unlike coffee which is almost completely composed of caffeine. Thus, the interactions between the different constituents of green tea with the moderate amount of coffee should be studied to understand the effect of green tea in causing side effects similar to those of chronic coffee drinkers.
The argument is largely based on the long-term study which revealed that those who drink more than three cups of green tea per day are prone to symptoms similar to those of chronic coffee drinkers. However, a long-term study can be misleading in several ways. It can be possible that the people who were studied might even consume other sources of caffeine, such as cola or coffee itself. Such a scenario would render flawed results of the survey. The study might include people of a particular age group for whom the effects of caffeine might be more severe than other age groups. This will also lead to a flaw in the results of the long-term study and thus the conclusion that one should not consume more than two cups of green tea. There can be several other unjustified shortcomings of the long-term study. Thus, the study should be justified and carried out in a detailed manner.
The argument mentioned aims to prevent people from the side effects caused be excessive consumption of green tea. But it argument is vague in terms of defining the quantity of green tea one consumes. Also, the long term study over which the conclusion is largely based is not properly justified in detail. Thus, with the lack of a more justifed and detailed study, and the lack of a clear unit for the quantity of green tea consumed, the argument stands weak.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 29 15
No. of Words: 598 350
No. of Characters: 2844 1500
No. of Different Words: 211 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.945 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.756 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.529 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 201 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 139 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 99 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.621 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.98 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.483 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.335 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.542 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.122 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 864, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a detailed manner" with adverb for "detailed"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, thus, in contrast, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 90.0 55.5748502994 162% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2911.0 2260.96107784 129% => OK
No of words: 598.0 441.139720559 136% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86789297659 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.94510247834 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58714676321 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 204.123752495 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.364548494983 0.468620217663 78% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 884.7 705.55239521 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.76447105788 171% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 19.7664670659 147% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.9875401232 57.8364921388 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.379310345 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6206896552 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.86206896552 5.70786347227 33% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.88822355289 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.67664670659 235% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.289099342605 0.218282227539 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0966784821815 0.0743258471296 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0687565776175 0.0701772020484 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177501068884 0.128457276422 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0292883859041 0.0628817314937 47% => 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: 11.8 14.3799401198 82% => 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: 10.97 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.45 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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