A recent study indicates that children living in the Himalayan mountain region in Nepal have lower levels of tooth decay than children living in suburban areas in the United States, despite the fact that people in the Himalayan mountain region in Nepal receive little to no professional dental care, while people in suburban areas in the United States see a dentist an average of 1.25 times per year. Thus, regular dental care is not helpful in preventing tooth decay.
Both the result and findings of the study seem to rely on a lot of presumptions and seem apocryphal at best.
How have the authors of the study compared the number of children in the two regions? If they directly compare the absolute number of children in the two regions, then it might be possible that the population of children is higher in the United States and that the proportion of children with tooth decay to the total number of children might be much lower in the United States.
It might also be possible that as people in Nepal receive little to no professional dental care, the number of diagnosed cases of people with dental problems are less while the actual number might be quite high. As there is a paucity of dentists available in the area, many of the children's problems are not reported at all and hence the low number of children with dental problem might be a false representation of a much more sombre problem. It can also be that there is a greater lack of awareness in Nepal because of which the number of reported cases are low. These scenarios absolutely refute the findings of the study and in turn, its results.
Even after the assumptions that places qualms over the study, the conclusion drawn by the author seems quite premature. Suppose even if we assume that proportion of children had more levels of tooth decay in the United States and number of reported cases are equivalent, the conclusion is still not justified based on the study of two countries only. The author might need to consider a meta-analysis of the results from different countries where the above stated scenarios are relatively similar across the different countries. Even in case of the two countries, it might be possible that the researchers happened to consider only those children that did not have regular dental care in case of United States. We are told people on an average, saw the dentist 1.25 a year but, by serendipity or otherwise, the authors might have only considered those children who did not get or had access to regular dental care.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 360 350
No. of Characters: 1673 1500
No. of Different Words: 159 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.356 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.647 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.509 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 116 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 77 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 58 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.314 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.405 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.617 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.189 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, so, still, then, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1706.0 2260.96107784 75% => OK
No of words: 360.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.73888888889 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35587717469 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54775984875 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.455555555556 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 544.5 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 30.0 22.8473053892 131% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 63.6000960866 57.8364921388 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.166666667 119.503703932 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.0 23.324526521 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.66666666667 5.70786347227 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.183697622984 0.218282227539 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0735153204309 0.0743258471296 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0622045973569 0.0701772020484 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111778843556 0.128457276422 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0748120841926 0.0628817314937 119% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.3799401198 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.8 12.5979740519 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 98.500998004 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.1389221557 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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