An international development organization, in response to a vitamin A deficiency among people in the impoverished nation of Tagus, has engineered a new breed of millet high in vitamin A. While seeds for this new type of millet cost more, farmers will be paid subsidies for farming the new variety of millet. Since millet is already a staple food in Tagus, people will readily adopt the new variety. To combat vitamin A deficiency, the government of Tagus should do everything it can to promote this new type of millet.
The author of the argument concludes that the government of Tagus should promote the new type of millet in order to combat Vitamin A deficiency. The evidences cite to support this argument are : Vitamin A content in this new variety is very high and is designed by an international agency, Subsidies on these new seeds and millet a staple food of the nation so the farmers will adopt easily. However, these premises are unable to justify or strengthen the weak argument. The reasons why this argument is rendered inconclusive are : inadequacy of the data, fallacious assumptions and wrong analogy.
Firstly, the author said that it cis designed by an international agency, but there no mentioning of the other products designed by the company and are successful. Also, in which country they conducted their trials? As, crop is biological commodity so the yield is different in every new area. It requires suitable type of climate, soil, rainfall and other environmental conditions. So, the author hadn't mentioned about these agronomic conditions. Moreover, what if there is a pest in the new area then it will destroy the whole crop and ultimately leading to decrease in yield as well as quality, so the crop will fail. So, the author hadn't mentioned about whether the country conducted trials in Tagus nation or not thatswhy, the argument is inconclusive.
Secondly, the author said that the seeds are costly, what if the seeds are too costly and they didn't justified their costs. Also, the people in impoverished nations will no buy these costly seeds. Moreover, author didn't mentioned about the amount of subsidies government will provide whether these will be sufficient be sufficient to the costs of seeds or not. So, the farmers will not adopt this variety easily unless high subsidies are provided, so the author need to mention about the amount of subsidies.
Finally, the author said that millets are already the staple food of the Targus nation, so what if this new variety is different in taste, texture or color then even the people won't cultivate and accept this new variety, hence this new variety will fail and people won't accept it unless a new variety with same flavor, taste and color with additional Vitamin A content came up.
So, in nutshell I would like to conclude that the argument is full of fallacious assumptions. The author has to give more data regarding the trails conducted by the nations, proper figures of the subsidies that the government will provide, correct data of cost of seeds and the flavor, texture and color of the seeds, unless this data is not provided by the author the argument is inconclusive.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, hence, however, if, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, well, as to, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2200.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 444.0 441.139720559 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95495495495 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5903493882 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62907268168 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 204.123752495 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.434684684685 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 691.2 705.55239521 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Interrogative: 2.0 0.471057884232 425% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 83.6760545124 57.8364921388 145% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.222222222 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6666666667 23.324526521 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.11111111111 5.70786347227 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.292958660882 0.218282227539 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0864335907858 0.0743258471296 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0906798935156 0.0701772020484 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169690932052 0.128457276422 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0869480904352 0.0628817314937 138% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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