SuperCorp recently moved its headquarters to Corporateville. The recent surge in the number of homeowners in Corporateville proves that Corporateville is a superior place to live than Middlesburg, the home of SuperCorp's original headquarters. Moreover, Middlesburg is a predominately urban area and according to an employee survey, SuperCorp has determined that its workers prefer to live in an area that is not urban. Finally, Corporateville has lower taxes than Middlesburg, making it not only a safer place to work but also a cheaper one. Therefore, Supercorp clearly made the best decision.
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 the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The decision of SuperCorp to move its headquarters from Middlesburg to Corporateville is made on a few unwarranted assumptions.
There is a surge in the number of homeowners in Corporateville. This might indeed suggest that its polularity as a good place to live is increasing. However this doesnt necessarily imply that it is superior to Middlesburg in any aspect. The assumption that Corporateville is certainly superior to Middlesburg is thus wrong. The employees of SuperCorp might be worse of in Corporateville than Middlesburg.
In addition to the previous assumption, there is a faulty assumption on which the statistical justification (survey) of the move by SuperCorp is based. First, we have no details about the sample used for the survey. And we are just given the preference of employees to live in a non urban area.Second, considerations need to be given to the proportion of employees from the survey who already live in a non urban area because having the headquarter at a urban area doesnt guarantee that the peope working there will live in a urban area. Thus this might cause the employees to move rather unenthusiastically because of the already set, good life currently.
The final claim made base on lower taxes in Corporateville can only suggest that it Corporateville can be a cheaper place to live. No conclusions about it being a safer place than Middlesburg can be drawn form this fact. Also, the SuperCorp employees might not even care about the taxes and Corporateville being cheaper. We do not have any data from the survey pertinent to financial preferences of SuperCorp employees.
Overall it seems that this decision made by supercorp is based on very limited data. A lot more variables count in a decision this big and a multiple other factors need to be considered along with the elimination of faulty assumptions.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- not OK. This survey is only about workers where to live, not about where to work.
argument 3 -- OK
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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: 16 15
No. of Words: 307 350
No. of Characters: 1516 1500
No. of Different Words: 145 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.186 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.938 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.181 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 89 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 74 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.188 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.159 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.438 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.326 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.532 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.119 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 149, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
... as a good place to live is increasing. However this doesnt necessarily imply that it i...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 162, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ace to live is increasing. However this doesnt necessarily imply that it is superior t...
^^^^^^
Line 4, column 293, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Second
...f employees to live in a non urban area.Second, considerations need to be given to the...
^^^^^^
Line 4, column 432, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...live in a non urban area because having the headquarter at a urban area doesnt guarantee that t...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 451, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
... area because having the headquarter at a urban area doesnt guarantee that the pe...
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Line 4, column 464, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
... having the headquarter at a urban area doesnt guarantee that the peope working there ...
^^^^^^
Line 4, column 523, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...at the peope working there will live in a urban area. Thus this might cause the e...
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Line 4, column 537, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...orking there will live in a urban area. Thus this might cause the employees to move ...
^^^^
Line 8, column 157, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'factor'?
Suggestion: factor
... decision this big and a multiple other factors need to be considered along with the el...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, second, so, thus, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1552.0 2260.96107784 69% => OK
No of words: 306.0 441.139720559 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07189542484 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.26287838047 2.78398813304 117% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 204.123752495 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.47385620915 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 498.6 705.55239521 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 59.4700554901 57.8364921388 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.0 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.125 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.4375 5.70786347227 60% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
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: 0.271834174734 0.218282227539 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108621986627 0.0743258471296 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0865997587575 0.0701772020484 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.178074347447 0.128457276422 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.114880878135 0.0628817314937 183% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.98 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 98.500998004 67% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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