The following appeared as part of a column in a popular entertainment magazine:
“The producers of the forthcoming movie 3003 will be most likely to maximize their profits if they are willing to pay Robin Good several million dollars to star in it—even though that amount is far more than any other person involved with the movie will make. After all, Robin has in the past been paid a similar amount to work in several films that were very financially successful.”
Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument. In your 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 counter examples might weaken the conclusion. You can also discuss what sort of evidence would strengthen or refute the argument, what changes in the argument would make it more logically sound, and what, if anything, would help you better evaluate its conclusion.
The argument put forth in the popular entertainment magazine regarding how to maximize profits for the movie 3003 is well-intentioned but flawed. The argument assumes that Robin Good will maximize profits over another actor. It also alleges that paying more than the other people involved will make will move the movie towards profit, which is unknown. Finally, it makes the assertion that the amount paid to Robin Good in other finanically successful films, means that paying him a similar amount work will also make this film financially successful.
The argument makes a large assumption that paying Robin Good several million dollars to star in the movie 3003 will maximize profits. Even if paying him millions would increase profits, it is possible that paying another actor the same or a lesser amount will increase profits even more. Not to mention there are many other ways to maximize movie profits, such as streaming, without paying Robin Good several million. Not only did this argument assume that Good being paid millions would be the only way to maximize profits, but also it suggested that paying paying Good more money than any other person involved will make the money more profitable.
Not only does this argument assume that paying Good millions of dollars will maximize profits, but also it incorrectly asserts that paying Good more money than any other person involved will make the movie more profitable. If the other people involved are making the decisions regarding how much Good would be paid, they are not neccesarilly likely to pay Good more than they like make. Even if they wanted to, it is unclear is they even have the financial resources to do so. Not only did the argument suggest that paying paying Robin Good more money than any other person involved will make the money more profitable, but also it alleged that the amount Good is paid was the cause for the financial success of other movies.
Not only does this argument incorrectly assert that paying Good more money than any other person involved will make the money more profitable , but also it makes the cause of the financial success of other films the amount that Good was paid. It is unclear why the other movies where Good was paid millions were financially successful. It is possible they had better marketing, a stronger fan base, or a better release date. There is no guarantee that the reason for their financial success was because of the amount that Good was paid.
While this argument made an attempt to offer a suggestion to maximize the profits of the movie 3003, it falls short. The argument assumes that Good is the only star that would maximize profits, suggests that paying more than others will make is possible and profitable, and argues that the reason other films were financially succesful was the amount that Good was paid. The author of this article should took a look at the most profitable movies, the stars that were a part of them, the amount paid to each actor, the genre of the film, the type of marketing used, the release date, and what costs were present before attempting to make such an unfounded conclusion again.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 11 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 535 350
No. of Characters: 2561 1500
No. of Different Words: 178 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.809 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.787 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.256 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 164 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.158 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.572 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.684 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.425 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.425 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.21 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 552, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: paying
...ize profits, but also it suggested that paying paying Good more money than any other person i...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...d will make the money more profitable. Not only does this argument assume that pay...
^^^
Line 3, column 516, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: paying
... Not only did the argument suggest that paying paying Robin Good more money than any other pe...
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Line 4, column 142, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...lved will make the money more profitable , but also it makes the cause of the fina...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, if, look, regarding, so, well, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 24.0 13.6137724551 176% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 28.8173652695 167% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 55.5748502994 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2611.0 2260.96107784 115% => OK
No of words: 535.0 441.139720559 121% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88037383178 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80937282943 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31556158078 2.78398813304 83% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 204.123752495 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.360747663551 0.468620217663 77% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 809.1 705.55239521 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.67365269461 418% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 65.7927999159 57.8364921388 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.421052632 119.503703932 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.1578947368 23.324526521 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.42105263158 5.70786347227 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 8.20758483034 219% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.320293621748 0.218282227539 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143754257246 0.0743258471296 193% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0782248485988 0.0701772020484 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.222173728161 0.128457276422 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0814426392476 0.0628817314937 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 48.3550499002 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.18 8.32208582834 86% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 98.500998004 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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