A pet food company recalled 4 million pounds of pet food in response to complaints that pets that had consumed the food experienced vomiting, lethargy, and other signs of illness. After the recall, the pet food company tested samples from the recalled food and determined that all chemicals found in the food were chemicals that are approved for use in pet food. Thus, the recalled food was not responsible for these symptoms, and the company should not devote further resources to the investigation.
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 if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The prompt recommends that further resources not be expended in investigating the cause of the sign of illness of the pets that had consumed the pet food in question. While the evidence presented to support this recommendation appears reasonable, on closer examination they appear to be based on unfounded assumptions.
First, it is assumed that the collected samples which were tested for chemicals are representative of the whole sample of pet food sold and consumed by the pets. If this is not the case, then the argument is flawed as the results of the test conducted on the samples is not conclusive about the nature of the chemicals present in all of the pet food produced and consumed by the pets.
Second, it is assumed that the method of testing employed on the collected samples are infallibly accurate.It is possible that the method of analyzing the composition of the collected samples were wrong and were unable to detect the presence of a toxic component which might have resulted in the observed illness of the pets that consumed the pet food. If this is true, then the recommendation to halt further investigation is a hasty one.
Lastly, it is also assumed, albeit more subtly, that all the chemicals found in the tested samples were in the right proportion as approved for pet food. This eliminates the consideration that there may be a chemical possibly present in excess proportion than is innocuous to the pets which consumed the pet food. Because it is possible that a chemical might be present in excess proportion, halting the investigation at this stage seems ill-advised.
It is possible that the collected samples are representative of the whole pet food produced and consumed by the pets, that an accurate method was employed in testing the samples, and that the chemicals in the pet food are present in their approved proportions, but if these assumptions are not backed by appropriate evidence, the recommendation to hold back resources for further investigation lacks substantiated evidence to have merit.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 10 15
No. of Words: 339 350
No. of Characters: 1671 1500
No. of Different Words: 137 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.291 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.929 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.931 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 117 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 97 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 33.9 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.896 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.8 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.45 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.723 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.102 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 331, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
... the nature of the chemicals present in all of the pet food produced and consumed by the p...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 108, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: It
...llected samples are infallibly accurate.It is possible that the method of analyzin...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, lastly, may, second, so, then, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.9520958084 23% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1711.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 338.0 441.139720559 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06213017751 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28774723029 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98761052902 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 204.123752495 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.420118343195 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 534.6 705.55239521 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 19.7664670659 51% => 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: 33.0 22.8473053892 144% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 102.841674432 57.8364921388 178% => OK
Chars per sentence: 171.1 119.503703932 143% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.8 23.324526521 145% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8 5.70786347227 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.347149095654 0.218282227539 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.170540940432 0.0743258471296 229% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.114163526162 0.0701772020484 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.229838526056 0.128457276422 179% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.030377274709 0.0628817314937 48% => 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: 19.3 14.3799401198 134% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.98 48.3550499002 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.197005988 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.66 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 11.1389221557 136% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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