The following appeared as part of an article in a business magazine.
"A recent study rating 300 male and female Mentian advertising executives according to the average number of hours they sleep per night showed an association between the amount of sleep the executives need and the success of their firms. Of the advertising firms studied, those whose executives reported needing no more than 6 hours of sleep per night had higher profit margins and faster growth. These results suggest that if a business wants to prosper, it should hire only people who need less than 6 hours of sleep per night."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
A study published in an article recomended that a if a business want to prosper, it should only hire people who need less than 6 hours of sleep per night. This conclusion was reached owing to the recent study of amount of sleep by 300 advertising executives and the success of their firms. the evidence given was based on higher profit margin and faster growth rate recorded by executives who sleep less than 6 hours. however, the argument based the result and conlusion on faulty details and did not provide answer to many questons raised and thus not lend validity to assumptions made.
firslty, it is pertinent to ask how valid are the result of this study? Was the research conducted following standard procedure for research? the whole arguments rest on the study conducted among three hundred advertising executives. The argument did not state where and how this study was conducted. For instance, what if the advertising executives in this study acheivement of higher profit rate and faster growth are not really as a result of the number ofhours they sleep but maybe as a result of certain skills or education. thenumber of people in this study involves a paltry three hundred. is it logical to use a such study to make a genralization on the succes of a business. the argument is largely flawed except more insight is provided .
secodly, assuming the study was valid for advertising agency, Is their any evidence that suggest a relationship between advertising and other business? the author assumes that if lesser sleep could be responsible for the success of advertising executives maybe , it can bring about the same success in other business as a result of the authors conclusion. there was no evidence stated for this important assumotions and as such the argument do not provide any solid evidence.
Conclusively, the authors opinon that no more than 6 hours of sleep per night increase the chance of business to prosper is built on faulty unstated assumptions and thus the arguemtn does not hold water. However, the argument can be improved by providing answers to the questions raised in this essay in a bit to further lend credence to it.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 9 15
No. of Words: 366 350
No. of Characters: 1761 1500
No. of Different Words: 174 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.374 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.811 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.623 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 130 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 93 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 40.667 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 25.897 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.423 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.681 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.103 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 49, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...published in an article recomended that a if a business want to prosper, it shoul...
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Line 1, column 291, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
...cutives and the success of their firms. the evidence given was based on higher prof...
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Line 1, column 419, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
...executives who sleep less than 6 hours. however, the argument based the result and conl...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Firslty
...ot lend validity to assumptions made. firslty, it is pertinent to ask how valid are t...
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Line 3, column 143, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
...lowing standard procedure for research? the whole arguments rest on the study condu...
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Line 3, column 531, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Thenumber
... result of certain skills or education. thenumber of people in this study involves a palt...
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Line 3, column 598, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Is
... study involves a paltry three hundred. is it logical to use a such study to make ...
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Line 3, column 685, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
...ralization on the succes of a business. the argument is largely flawed except more ...
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Line 3, column 747, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...y flawed except more insight is provided . secodly, assuming the study was valid...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Secodly
...wed except more insight is provided . secodly, assuming the study was valid for adver...
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Line 5, column 153, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
...between advertising and other business? the author assumes that if lesser sleep cou...
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Line 5, column 261, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... success of advertising executives maybe , it can bring about the same success in ...
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Line 5, column 337, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ss in other business as a result of the authors conclusion. there was no evidence state...
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Line 5, column 357, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: There
... as a result of the authors conclusion. there was no evidence stated for this importa...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, really, so, then, thus, for instance, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1799.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 366.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91530054645 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37391431897 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69730483832 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.497267759563 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 569.7 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.9598594072 57.8364921388 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.823529412 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5294117647 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.23529411765 5.70786347227 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 14.0 5.25449101796 266% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.212627739128 0.218282227539 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0659462987485 0.0743258471296 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0645550723237 0.0701772020484 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127853307082 0.128457276422 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0563293225801 0.0628817314937 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 98.500998004 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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