Recent incursions by deep-sea fishermen into the habitat of the Madagascan shrimp have led to a significant reduction in the species population. With the breeding season fast approaching, the number of shrimp should soon begin to increase. Nonetheless, the population should not return to the levels before the fishing boats arrived. Because this trend is expected to continue over the next several years, the Madagascan shrimp will quickly become an endangered species.
Despite the sincerity in the concerning voice over the endangerment of Madagascan shrimp population, the argument contains critical logical fallacies.
First of all, the causal relationship argued about deep-sea fishing and reduction in Madagascan shrimp population significantly lacks its power since the argument fails to support the temporal precedence. The argument's main concern is that the fishing business impedes the shrimp population's growth because the massive fishing happens right after the breeding season and thus undoing the population growth from the breeding season. However, the argument fails to confirm whether the breeding season in fact precedes the fishing season. If such temporal relationship is unclear, one cannot accuse the fishing business to be the direct factor hindering the population growth from breeding.
The fact that the argument fails to clarify other confounding factors also supports how feeble this statement is. Nature's ecosystem consists of systematic food chain. It is true that modern humans are at the top of the food chain, however, there still exist more proximal predators for Madagascan shrimps. Humpback whales travels around the earth throughout the year, constantly relocating for optimal survival environment, especially for food consumption and breeding. Although not belligerent in nature, humpback whales consume several tons of kilograms of small preys and shrimps are definitely the most consumed species. Therefore, if the Madagascan shrimp's breeding season is soon followed by humpback whale's migration to Madagascar bay area for its warm climate, the phenomenon easily confounds the argument presentend in the statement.
Last but not least, the statement is completely absent with numbers and percentages. Without providing any tangible counts and statistics, the argument has no power in depicting how detrimental the fishing business is to the Madagascan shrimps. For example, fishing business encapturing 100,000 shrimps on average will be lethal if the total shrimp population in the area is 200,000. However, the same level of fishing will be much less injuring if the total shrimp population is 1,000,000,000. No argument can establish a valid empirical statement without presenting precise counts and statistics to support the argued causality.
Hence, the argument significantly lacks its power in supporting the idea that the deep-sea fishing business will soon endanger the Madagascan shrimp population.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 366 350
No. of Characters: 2080 1500
No. of Different Words: 198 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.374 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.683 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.79 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 183 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 150 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 104 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 63 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.529 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.363 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.647 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.348 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.348 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.099 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, so, still, therefore, thus, for example, in fact, first of all, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 28.8173652695 31% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 16.3942115768 152% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2116.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 366.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.78142076503 5.12650576532 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37391431897 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8461658276 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.540983606557 0.468620217663 115% => OK
syllable_count: 628.2 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => 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: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.8515110036 57.8364921388 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.470588235 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5294117647 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.58823529412 5.70786347227 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.187513123904 0.218282227539 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.064483268999 0.0743258471296 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0616599834301 0.0701772020484 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124705153316 0.128457276422 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0494668761419 0.0628817314937 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.24 12.5979740519 129% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.51 8.32208582834 114% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 98.500998004 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 11.9071856287 143% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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