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.
In the given information, the study states that anyone who chooses to drink green tea should limit their intake to no more than two cups a day. However, while the conclusion drawn by the study regarding the intake quantity of green tea might hold water, but it rests on several unfounded assumptions that, if not substantiated, dramatically weaken the persuasiveness of the argument. Thus, the following three questions must be addressed.
First, is the given study conducted on appropriate set of people? Also, are the methods used to conduct the study fully correct or not? It may be possible that the sample size of the study was too small to reach any valid conclusion. It may also be possible that the people on whom the study was conducted were also taking some other foods that contained caffeine but researchers failed to take this in account. The researchers of the study should make their data public and shoud reveal which factors they took in account and which ones they ignored while making the stated conclusion.
Second, is the absolute quantity of caffeine in a product a correct indicator of harmful effects of caffeine? It may be possible that when different ingredients are mixed, the composition of the product changes and thus the claim that taking higher absolute amount of caffeine is harmful may not be valid. This is because chemical componds have properties different from their individual ingrediants. It may be possible that a product with higher caffeine content may have such a chemical strcuture that the effect of caffeine gets moderated and thus, this product shows lesser effects of caffeine when consumed than a product with lower amounts of caffeine but with different chemical composition. Thus, the reseachers of the study must explain this point.
Finally, is the limit of no more than two cups a day valid for everyone? The study states that anyone should not take more than two cups of green tea to avoid any harmful effects of caffeine. But it may be possible that this limit is different for every individual. Some people may not see any harmful effects on consuming more than two cups a day and some may see harmful effects on consuming even one cup of green tea in a day. Thus, the claim of the study that the limit of green tea consumption per day is two for everyone may not be valid and thus needs to be further scrutinized.
In conclusion, while the study may have drawn a sound conclusion regarding the intake quantity of green tea, more data is needed before a firm conclusion is reached. Thus, the above three questions must be answered to fully evaluate the validity of the argument.
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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: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 7 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 452 350
No. of Characters: 2144 1500
No. of Different Words: 178 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.611 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.743 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.503 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 138 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 108 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 74 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 43 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.6 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.476 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.85 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.356 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.562 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.087 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ach any valid conclusion. It may also be possible that the people on whom the stu...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...red while making the stated conclusion. Second, is the absolute quantity of caff...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, regarding, second, so, thus, while, as to, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => 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: 2197.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 452.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86061946903 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61088837703 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58364173156 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.411504424779 0.468620217663 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 678.6 705.55239521 96% => 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: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.6310458817 57.8364921388 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.85 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6 23.324526521 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.05 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.13657978788 0.218282227539 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0477131970857 0.0743258471296 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0585914009287 0.0701772020484 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0899152536744 0.128457276422 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0631718196878 0.0628817314937 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.52 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 98.500998004 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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