A recent study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that employees with paid sick leave are 28 percent less likely to be involved in a work-related accident than employees who do not receive payment for sick leave. Researchers hypothesize that employees with unpaid sick leave feel pressured to work during time of illness for fear of lack of pay. On-the-job accidents are then spurred by impaired judgment or motor skills due to illness or illness-related medications. The highest-risk occupations, such as construction, showed the highest discrepancy between paid and unpaid leave. Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to determine whether the researchers’ hypothesis is reasonable. Be sure to explain what effects the answers to these questions would have on the validity of the hypothesis.
While it may be true that highest risk occupations, such as construction, show the highest discrepancy between paid and unpaid leaves, but the study conducted is actually questionable and not sufficient enough for the hypothesis. There are many assumptions taken into consideration while stating the hypothesis.
First, the study conducted by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention seems quite accurate, but it does not state on how many people the study was conducted. It doesn’t specify how many paid sick leaves and how many un-paid sick leaves were taken into consideration for the same. As a result of which even the slightest change in the amount of candidates can drastically change the results.
Secondly, it even fails to specify on what industry or organisation the study was conducted. It is possible that the study was done on a corporate industry where there is very less risk as compared to the construction site. No mention of whether the employees were on-site or off-site like the accounts department of the construction. Hence the researchers’ statement regarding high risk job seems to be a mere assumption.
Additionally, it lacks the information of what post the employee was in that organisation. The employee could be just a normal worker, who has to work on the field and face the risks or he could even be the manager or the project head, who just has to make sure his sub-ordinates carry out their tasks properly and hence facing no risk at all.
Lastly, the most important part where in the paid leaves and unpaid leaves differ the most is the salary of the employee. If we consider an employee who is a normal worker with low salary which itself doesn’t help him survive the particular month then the paid sick leave pays an important role. But, on the other side of the coin, an employee who is on a greater post and has good salary so he can afford a couple of unpaid leaves.
The basic idea of the study is for the betterment of the employees with low salary and who have a need for paid sick leaves but, it lacks several points which taken into accordance can lead to great success in the hypothesis done by the researchers and hence will not just rife of some assumptions and loopholes.
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- A recent study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that employees with paid sick leave are 28 percent less likely to be involved in a work related accident than employees who do not receive payment for sick leave Researchers hypothesize 60
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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: 15 15
No. of Words: 389 350
No. of Characters: 1804 1500
No. of Different Words: 190 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.441 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.638 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.627 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 109 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 77 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 58 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.933 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.824 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.733 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.334 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.605 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.124 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 287, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... taken into consideration for the same. As a result of which even the slightest ch...
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Line 5, column 295, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'accounts'' or 'account's'?
Suggestion: accounts'; account's
...oyees were on-site or off-site like the accounts department of the construction. Hence t...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 336, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...ccounts department of the construction. Hence the researchers’ statement regarding hi...
^^^^^
Line 9, column 123, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...the most is the salary of the employee. If we consider an employee who is a normal...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, hence, if, lastly, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, while, as to, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 11.1786427146 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1861.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 387.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.80878552972 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43534841618 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74458261732 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.496124031008 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 569.7 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => 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: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.5254318736 57.8364921388 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.066666667 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8 23.324526521 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.93333333333 5.70786347227 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.311033469736 0.218282227539 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.08925262846 0.0743258471296 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0687343111705 0.0701772020484 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.147090827929 0.128457276422 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0634317415899 0.0628817314937 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.3550499002 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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