The article states that altruism is a type of behavior in which animal sacrifices its own interests for others. The professor refutes this claim by saying that the deep study of animal behavior suggest selfish behaviour and provides three reasons.
First, the reading states that meerkats stand guard gaining nothing and make other meerkats hunt for food. The professor refutes this by saying that the meerkats who stand guard are the ones who have their stomach full. He states that the meerkats solely allows other meerkats to eat his food only when he is self satisfied.
Second, the article posits that the meerkats acts as a guard to ensure safety to others. However, the professor explains that it is not as it is seen or looks to be. He states that the meerkat when first sees the predator produces the alarm in order to shift the attention of the predator towards a different meerkat or group of meerkats which reduces the harm on itself.
Third, the article states that humans are altruistic due to their food-sharing and organ sharing. The professor opposes this by saying that humans do not easily tend to donate organs because what they gain out it is nothing but some amount of respect and pride which is unvaluable for the kind of deed they did.
In conclusion, both the reading and lecture explains about the altruism about animals and humans. However, the claims made by the reading are effectively challenged by the lecturer.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, look, second, so, third, in conclusion, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1202.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 247.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.86639676113 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96437052324 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.3305002591 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 145.348785872 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.53036437247 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 356.4 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.8844539302 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.166666667 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5833333333 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06452816374 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.191995306097 0.272083759551 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0769897373874 0.0996497079465 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.123912725956 0.0662205650399 187% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116153192993 0.162205337803 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.110014799375 0.0443174109184 248% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 53.8541721854 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.63 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 47.0 63.6247240618 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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