Workers in the small town of Leeville take fewer sick days than workers in the large city of Masonton 50 miles away Moreover relative to population size the diagnosis of stress related illness is proportionally much lower in Leeville than in Masonton

Leevile Chamber of commerce suggests that workers of the Leevile town have an overall better health, making them take a fewer off days than the population in the city of Masonton does. This is based on the evidence that the the stess-related illness is much lower Leevile than the city of Masonton due to itls slower lifestlye. While this explanation is plausible, it does rely on significant unwarranted assumptions, if not substantiated, will dramatically weaken the Chamber's reasoning.

The author mentions that the people of town Leevile took a lesser amount of sick days than the city. The elucidation might not be related to a better mental health condition. Another reasons are also plausible. For instance, consider the case where the people of Leevile are zealous about their jobs. This might create a better attendance of workers, even if they are not completely healthy. This might be plausible explanation which has nothing to do fast-paced life. Further, it also might be possible that the people of the town are paid wages on daily basis. This might create an extrinsic motivation and preclude them from taking a sick day. If this scenarios are true, then the author's conclusion does not hold water.

Secondly, there might be a situation that the city's environmental conditions are making them more sick(or feign to be sick). Consider a case where there is a viral infection across the town of Masonton which enervates a person completely. This might have affected the overall report of that time frame (creating outliers - extre conditions), and depicted more sick holidays. Another case might be that the environment of the job might not be suitable, maybe the lack of motivation to work in a particular culture (of Masonton city) might make them flunk more of the days. If external factors are causing this to happen, than the author's argument is significantly weakend.

Lastly, the Leevile Chamber of commerce concludes that Leevile has a 'relaxed' pace of life while that might be true that certainly does not guarantee the obviate of a stress-related illness. It is possible that mental-health is not affected due to the 'pace' of the lifestyle around. There are several reasons that might have caused this to happen. For example, it might be possible that personal issues, lack of opportunities or poor living conditions in cities have instigated such anxiety among the people of city causing interference in their work-life balance. If this scenario holds merit than the author's argument does not hold weight.

In conclusion, the argument as it stands now, is considerably flawed due to its ignorance of several alternative explanations. If the Leevile Chamber of Commerce is able to address this explanation with more evidence, then it is possible to fully evaluate the justification of the explanation. If not, there could be several more possible explanations.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, then, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 28.8173652695 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2423.0 2260.96107784 107% => OK
No of words: 470.0 441.139720559 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15531914894 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65612321451 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84396311166 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 204.123752495 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.472340425532 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 761.4 705.55239521 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 2.70958083832 332% => Less 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: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.9611924891 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.92 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.92 5.70786347227 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.157092324952 0.218282227539 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0461816486371 0.0743258471296 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.067623335872 0.0701772020484 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100701086309 0.128457276422 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0925532822215 0.0628817314937 147% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 98.500998004 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 14 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 470 350
No. of Characters: 2361 1500
No. of Different Words: 212 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.656 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.023 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.765 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 169 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 133 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 93 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 55 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.8 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.787 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.56 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.293 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.478 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.064 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5