The following advice was given to a politician by his political consultant: It is true that 200 apartment renters protested in the rain about the elimination of rent control regulation. However, there are 20,000 renters in the entire city. 19,800 of them stayed home and did not protest. The group that did not protest is much larger and better represents the opinion of renters throughout the city: that the elimination of rent control is not a problem. You should not let the small protest discourage you.
Describe how well reasoned you find this argument. In the discussion be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. For example, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking and what alternative explanations or counterexamples might weaken the argument's conclusion. You may also address possible changes in the argument that would make it more logically sound, and what, if anything, would help you better evaluate its conclusion.
The political consultant attempts to make an argument on the basis of numerical
evidence, which although not completely unsound, fails to consider the
circumstantial aspects of the protest and population they are pulling their
information from. The protest was not occurring in a controlled environment where
people only had two options: to participate if they supported or not to participate if
they did not support. Assuming those that were present at the protest represent all
that desire to eliminate rent control is neglecting many other alternative factors and
groups of people who might care to eliminate rent control.
The political consultant only calculates the renters of the city and dismisses those
who may not be a renter. Rent control does not solely effect renters but also,
tenants, shelters, social services, public health services, and a continuing extension
of other social spheres. Furthermore, people could potentially be personally
unaffected by rent control and yet, know others who are and therefore have an
opinion as well. For the politician to disregarding voters beyond renters as
opinionated forces on this issue, could be gravely deleterious to his career.
Even if non-renters were obsolete from the discussion of rent control, the people
willing to protest and even more so, stand in the rain, are not the full embodiment of
a people group. Many factors other than lacking support could have kept someone
from showing up to the protest including a previous engagement, lack of
transportation, illness, inability to stand in tumultuous weather, or lack of knowledge
of the protest. Those that may oppose the removal of rent control can still oppose
without physically protesting. It is not logically sound to assess a group of protestors
as the only people serious about their opinions, because all someone needs to do is
write on a piece of paper to vote against the candidate, not shout in a street in the
rain.
To make the political consultant's argument more sound, looking at the voting
statistics and possibly constructing a survey could present more reliable
information. The survey and statistics should come from an extensive and diverse
group and remain as unbiased as possible to collect the most realistic sample. Even
answering more questions about the protest and considering the limited scope of
the protest could bolster the presented argument. Knowledge of the greater
community of renters that were present at the protest and where they live, their
economic class, and if they were all truly renters would be helpful knowledge.
The argument presented to the politician is not sound or well supported. Ultimately,
the line of reasoning could be successful in a controlled experiment where all of the
population was represented in the numbers assessed and other factors were not
keeping people from displaying their opinions on rent control. Without a controlled
setting, this approach cannot be soundly used to conclude rent control as not a
problem.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 480 350
No. of Characters: 2475 1500
No. of Different Words: 232 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.681 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.156 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.79 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 193 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 161 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 98 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 74 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.667 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.641 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.444 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.324 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.555 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.048 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
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...ompletely unsound, fails to consider the circumstantial aspects of the protest an...
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...st and population they are pulling their information from. The protest was not oc...
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...urring in a controlled environment where people only had two options: to particip...
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...ere present at the protest represent all that desire to eliminate rent control is...
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...cting many other alternative factors and groups of people who might care to elimi...
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... renters of the city and dismisses those who may not be a renter. Rent control do...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, look, may, regarding, so, still, therefore, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 11.1786427146 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 55.5748502994 115% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2605.0 2260.96107784 115% => OK
No of words: 480.0 441.139720559 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42708333333 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68069463864 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85645513487 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 204.123752495 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495833333333 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 785.7 705.55239521 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.1065207644 57.8364921388 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.722222222 119.503703932 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.6666666667 23.324526521 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.22222222222 5.70786347227 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 37.0 5.15768463074 717% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 38.0 5.25449101796 723% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.202294331023 0.218282227539 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0690423410776 0.0743258471296 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0387444403771 0.0701772020484 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0492775032726 0.128457276422 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0463832649799 0.0628817314937 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.5 14.3799401198 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.51 12.5979740519 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.37 8.32208582834 113% => OK
difficult_words: 135.0 98.500998004 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 21.0 12.3882235529 170% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 21.0 11.9071856287 176% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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