he following memorandum is from the business manager of Happy Pancake House restaurants.
"Recently, butter has been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States. This change, however, has had little impact on our customers. In fact, only about 2 percent of customers have complained, indicating that an average of 98 people out of 100 are happy with the change. Furthermore, many servers have reported that a number of customers who ask for butter do not complain when they are given margarine instead. Clearly, either these customers do not distinguish butter from margarine or they use the term 'butter' to refer to either butter or margarine."
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
The author has stated two observations, made after butter was replaced with margarine at a restaurant chain.Based on the observations , he concludes that either the customers do not distinguish between butter and margarine or they use the term butter to refer to either of the food items . Though this is a plausible conclusion , there can another possible explanation. It could be possible that most people prefer margarine over butter.
Lets consider the first statistic , only 2 % people complained when butter was replaced with margarine. It is thus concluded that 98 out of 100 people were happy with the change.The issue with this argument is that we don't know whether the complaints came from people purchasing margarine made products or includes all the customers. We need proper metrics clearly indicating the number of margarine product consumers and number of complaints made by them .
Secondly , when served margarine instead of butter , the customers did not complain. This behaviour can also indicate that people prefer margarine over butter. Assume you are on a flight and luckily get an upgrade. Most people take the upgrade and enjoy the flight. Similar situation may have happened at the restaurant. People got something which they felt was better than the product originally requested. Better could be in various ways like food taste , good combination with the ordered dishes , personal preference, nutritional value etc. Since they had asked for butter specifically and were not disappointed at receiving margarine , it clearly indicates the general preference for margarine.
The first observation cannot be credited unless more information is gathered. From the second one we can also deduce that maybe the people in general prefer margarine over butter .
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, second, secondly, so, thus, in general
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 55.5748502994 52% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1504.0 2260.96107784 67% => OK
No of words: 277.0 441.139720559 63% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.42960288809 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82879538115 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.610108303249 0.468620217663 130% => OK
syllable_count: 466.2 705.55239521 66% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 64.288291119 57.8364921388 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.0 119.503703932 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3125 23.324526521 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0625 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 20.0 5.25449101796 381% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.132792756165 0.218282227539 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0411342839932 0.0743258471296 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0386942858767 0.0701772020484 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0858721450243 0.128457276422 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0277744607458 0.0628817314937 44% => 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: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 98.500998004 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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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.