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.
In this argument, the author suggests that according to the study of disease control and prevention the employees with paid sick leaves are less likely to involved in work related accident as compared to employees with no paid sick leaves. However, the given argument is depends on certain additional assumptions which are not explicitly stated and which, should they prove unfounded, may critically weakened the final conclusion.
First of all, what is the work function of employees who are more likely to involve in job related accident? For instance, it is possible that employees who are more likely to involved in such accident may doing floor work and the employee who are with unpaid sick leaves and doing desk job are not part of this study. In such a case without knowing the actual proportion of such people, it will unwarranted to say that people involved in work accidents are mostly employees with unpaid sick leaves. If either of these scenarios has merit, then the conclusion drawn in the original argument is significantly weakened.
Secondly, does the study by disease control and prevention team has known the actual reason of accident? In the given argument it is not explicitly mention about the reasons behind the accidents. Maybe, it is possible that the large proportion of accidents is due to the system failure or because of the ignorance of some other peoples. Without knowing the actual reason behind every accident it will be silly to say that the accident are cause due to the sickness of employee. Do the employee involved in such an accident are really sick? May be, the employees involved in such accidents are not sick on day of accident. If any of these mention case were true, then it will be unwarranted to jump to the final conclusion.
Further, what about the other industries? The argument has only mentioned about the construction industry but what about other industries like IT, Health industry etc. Do they have the same proportion of accident in which employee with unpaid sick leaves are more likely to involved in work related accident as compared to employees with paid sick leaves? Without knowing all this scenarios, it will be unwarranted to jump to the final conclusion.
In conclusion, while the reasons cited in original argument does provide initial believe that the employees with unpaid sick leaves are more likely to involved in work related accident as compared to employees without unpaid sick leaves but the argument depends on the additional assumption which are, namely- the work type of employees, actual reason of accident, do the employees are really sick during the accident?, is there same scenario with other industries. With all these information in place the author’s conclusion not only becomes plausible but convincing. As in the original argument there are no such concrete evidences are provided by author that will satisfy these assumptions, we must remain skeptical.
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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 hypothesiz 55
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Essay evaluation 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: 19 15
No. of Words: 485 350
No. of Characters: 2413 1500
No. of Different Words: 171 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.693 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.975 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.545 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 181 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 139 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 106 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.526 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 15.486 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.579 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.354 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.534 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.101 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, then, while, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 76.0 55.5748502994 137% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2470.0 2260.96107784 109% => OK
No of words: 485.0 441.139720559 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09278350515 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69283662038 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65721124521 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.387628865979 0.468620217663 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 769.5 705.55239521 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 88.3538906897 57.8364921388 153% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.5 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.25 23.324526521 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.35 5.70786347227 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 6.88822355289 203% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.406840750414 0.218282227539 186% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.137788470867 0.0743258471296 185% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.148748354173 0.0701772020484 212% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.269295328356 0.128457276422 210% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0488326809036 0.0628817314937 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.5 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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