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.
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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 argument concludes that pet food is not responsible for the symptoms, and that the company should not devote further resources to the investigation of the same because even though pets that have consumed the food have shown effects such as vomiting, lethargy, etc., the company's analysis of the tested samples state that the ingredients used in the pet food are all approved chemicals for consumption and that it should be of any problem to the consumers. There are three questions that should be taken into consideration before completely agreeing with the conclusion.
Firstly, even though the chemicals are accepted for consumption, is it safe to assume that the combination of these chemicals is safe too? It might happen that chemicals when considered to be separate entities are safe, but the same chemicals when undergoing a chemical reaction with each other can often create a dangerous product. The same could be the same with the pet food. It should be thoroughly examined if this is the case. If so, then it is dangerous for pets to consume this food. Vomiting, lethargy might be the mere symptoms that could lead to a more dangerous illness.
Secondly, Do the chemicals added to the food cause any side effects? Even though genuine chemicals have been used in pet food, it can happen sometimes that these chemicals could cause genuine side effects for pets, at least few if not for all. There can also be cases that, these chemicals have slightly different behavior when coming in contact with pets having a particular hormonal proportion. The analysis for these results, if not already presented should be thoroughly drafted and submitted before concluding the argument.
Thirdly, Is proper testing of the samples done to conclude the argument? As mentioned in the argument above, it is assumed that having approved chemicals in the food should be enough for testing the food, but instead, there is be more meticulous testing where every scenario and aspect should be taken into consideration. There should always be more to testing apart from its chemicals. Different chemicals can cause different reactions when exposed. Temperature, moisture, pressure could be some of the examples that could manipulate the chemical formation to result in a harmful substance. If these tests fail, then the conclusion stated above would be invalid.
The above questions should be responded to before coming to a conclusion regarding the arguments. A proper analysis and documentation, perhaps along with the statistics and numbers should be stated in order to come to a conclusion. This would help us understand the internal behavior of the chemicals involved in the process which would guide us to a proper root cause for the problem.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 448 350
No. of Characters: 2245 1500
No. of Different Words: 195 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.601 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.011 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.639 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 165 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 130 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 97 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 61 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.333 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.984 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.311 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.507 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.104 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 135, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[9]
Message: The adverb 'sometimes' is usually put before the verb 'happen'.
Suggestion: sometimes happen
...cals have been used in pet food, it can happen sometimes that these chemicals could cause genuin...
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Line 7, column 228, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'been'.
Suggestion: been
...testing the food, but instead, there is be more meticulous testing where every sce...
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Line 7, column 493, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...emperature, moisture, pressure could be some of the examples that could manipulate the chem...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, apart from, at least, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.9520958084 185% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2304.0 2260.96107784 102% => OK
No of words: 448.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14285714286 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60065326758 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72261410248 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.448660714286 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 715.5 705.55239521 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 89.9990173794 57.8364921388 156% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.714285714 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3333333333 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47619047619 5.70786347227 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.193843418437 0.218282227539 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0673561734175 0.0743258471296 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0999026220514 0.0701772020484 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131621287384 0.128457276422 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0985139252093 0.0628817314937 157% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 98.500998004 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 12.3882235529 149% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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