In the lecture, the professor discusses why none of the three ways mentioned in the passage on preventing birds from flying into glass are plausible.
To begin with, the reading claims that one-way glass looks opaque from the outside, so the birds will not try to fly through it. However, the speaker refutes this by saying that the reflections of the surroundings, such as sky and trees, on the outside of the glass make them no difference from transparent glass. Hence, using one-way glass as a solution is impossible.
Next, whilst the second method in the passage believes that decorating glass with colorful patterns can remind birds of obstacles, the lecturer points out that if this solution were to be effective, the open wholes on the glass have to be extremely small, diminishing the amount of light indoors. Otherwise, the birds would still attempt to fly through the glass where there is no colorful paintings.
Finally, though birds are capable of navigating by sensing the magnetic field, as the instructor states, it is only restricted to long-distance migration. On the other hand, they mainly make use of sight to locate when traveling short distances. This indicates that it is unrealistic to deploy man-made magnetic field to keep them away from city buildings, which is contradicted to the solution in the reading.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, hence, however, if, look, second, so, still, such as, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 7.30242825607 14% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1123.0 1373.03311258 82% => OK
No of words: 221.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0814479638 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.85565412703 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70564777506 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.615384615385 0.540411800872 114% => OK
syllable_count: 330.3 419.366225166 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.9119061156 49.2860985944 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.777777778 110.228320801 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5555555556 21.698381199 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5555555556 7.06452816374 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
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: 0.468215099036 0.272083759551 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.182317401662 0.0996497079465 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0809274188625 0.0662205650399 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.253496163913 0.162205337803 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0873890067039 0.0443174109184 197% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.3589403974 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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