The author's recommendation to reduce the time spent online to promote well being raises some questions that needs to be answered for its evaluation. At first glance, the author's recommendation looks sound and logically based on survey but on careful examination, one can clearly find it to be rife of assumptions that make it ill-founded.
Firstly, what is the nature and reliability of survey discussed in the argument? Author has not provided the information establishing the reliability of the survey. The usage of words like 'frequently' further adds to the ambiguity. Thus if the survey is reliable and has adequate data to support the correlation, this would strengthen the intent of the recommendation. Ont the contrary, if the survey is not reliable and was not conducted fairly, this would weaken the recommendation.
Second question that needs to be answered, What is the nature of correlation stated by the survey? Does it indicate cause and effect relationship? May be the people who were interviewed do not represent a fair set of the subjects. The most active online users may suffer more from more concentration problems and depression but this does not indicate that spending more online time is actually a cause for this. This may be a coincidental correlation or a correlation driven by other factors. For example, people who are spending more time online may work in a similar profession like software engineering of content writing for websites. It may be the pressure of their jobs that have caused these problems, and thus working online is just an indication of the cause not actually a cause. In this scenario, reducing online time would mean spending less work hours and this would further exacerbate the problem rather solve it. On the other hand, If working online is actually a root cause then the recommendation becomes well founded and logical.
Additional question that pops up is, what may be the other side effects of limiting one's online time? It may be true that the people would also utilize their online time to read the fitness blogs that guide them to improve their physical fitness. If they stop or limit their time spent on such blogs, this would have an adverse effect on their fitness weakening the recommendation.
In conclusion, answers to the above questions is crucial to evaluate the validity of the recommendation. If the questions are answered in favor of the recommendation, it becomes infallible otherwise it remains ill-founded and flawed.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 5, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
The authors recommendation to reduce the time spent...
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Line 1, column 171, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...or its evaluation. At first glance, the authors recommendation looks sound and logicall...
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Line 3, column 232, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...equently further adds to the ambiguity. Thus if the survey is reliable and has adequ...
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Line 5, column 152, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (May) must be used with a third-person verb: 'is'.
Suggestion: is
...cate cause and effect relationship? May be the people who were interviewed do not ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'well', 'for example', 'in conclusion', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.224215246637 0.25644967241 87% => OK
Verbs: 0.190582959641 0.15541462614 123% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0807174887892 0.0836205057962 97% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0560538116592 0.0520304965353 108% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0358744394619 0.0272364105082 132% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.0919282511211 0.125424944231 73% => OK
Participles: 0.0538116591928 0.0416121511921 129% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.95462512633 2.79052419416 106% => OK
Infinitives: 0.02466367713 0.026700313972 92% => OK
Particles: 0.00224215246637 0.001811407834 124% => OK
Determiners: 0.12331838565 0.113004496875 109% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0291479820628 0.0255425247493 114% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.02466367713 0.0127820249294 193% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2498.0 2731.13054187 91% => OK
No of words: 410.0 446.07635468 92% => OK
Chars per words: 6.09268292683 6.12365571057 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49982852243 4.57801047555 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.356097560976 0.378187486979 94% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.273170731707 0.287650121315 95% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.19756097561 0.208842608468 95% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.126829268293 0.135150697306 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95462512633 2.79052419416 106% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 207.018472906 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492682926829 0.469332199767 105% => OK
Word variations: 54.0819787968 52.1807786196 104% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.039408867 105% => OK
Sentence length: 19.5238095238 23.2022227129 84% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.0760723083 57.7814097925 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.952380952 141.986410481 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5238095238 23.2022227129 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.761904761905 0.724660767414 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 3.58251231527 112% => OK
Readability: 46.8408826945 51.9672348444 90% => OK
Elegance: 1.30952380952 1.8405768891 71% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.270293696991 0.441005458295 61% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.122590226908 0.135418324435 91% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0973681510181 0.0829849096947 117% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.57469771705 0.58762219726 98% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.174405444665 0.147661913831 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119984201157 0.193483328276 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0508293053325 0.0970749176394 52% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.335723095685 0.42659136922 79% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0873289431826 0.0774707102158 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176255968678 0.312017818177 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0528934394671 0.0698173142475 76% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.33743842365 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.87684729064 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.82512315271 124% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 6.46551724138 77% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 5.36822660099 112% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.82389162562 142% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 14.657635468 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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