Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they oppose specific points made in the reading passage.
The reading and the lecture reveal contradicting views toward altruism. The author insists that humans and many animals show altruism behaviors because they sacrifice own interests for others. However, the lecturer counters the argument by saying that the suggested examples are wrong since they actually gain benefits from the behaviors.
First of all, the author insists that a meerkat who serves as a sentinel for the group acts based on altruism because one goes without food while the others eat. On the other hand, a recent study reveal that the sentinel already full when standing as a guard. In this regard, the reading's first point cannot support its claim that a sentinel gains nothing.
The professor also rebuts the reading passage's second point a sentinel meerkat places itself in danger alone by giving others an alarm. In contrast, the sentinel is not in greater danger than the others because they can easily escape into immediate burrow. In addition, the sentinel is less vulnerable to attacks since the group readily draw predator's attention away from the caller.
Lastly, while the writer mentions the existence of donations in the human society is the clear evidence that there are altruistic behaviors in humans, the speaker refutes the contention. According to the speaker, a donator gains appreciation, approval of others and increased self-esteem, thus the donation is hardly deemed as totally a self-sacrifying, altruistic behavior.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, lastly, second, so, thus, while, as to, in addition, in contrast, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1242.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 231.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37662337662 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89854898053 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61397311697 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 145.348785872 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.623376623377 0.540411800872 115% => OK
syllable_count: 372.6 419.366225166 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.0586285815 49.2860985944 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.909090909 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.5454545455 7.06452816374 178% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0 0.272083759551 0% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0 0.0996497079465 0% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0662205650399 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0 0.162205337803 0% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0443174109184 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.6 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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