The following memorandum is from the business manager of Happy Pancake House restaurants.
"Recently, butter has been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States. This change, however, has had little impact on our customers. In fact, only about 2 percent of customers have complained, indicating that an average of 98 people out of 100 are happy with the change. Furthermore, many servers have reported that a number of customers who ask for butter do not complain when they are given margarine instead. Clearly, either these customers do not distinguish butter from margarine or they use the term 'butter' to refer to either butter or margarine."
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
In the above memorandum, the author argues that in the happy Pancake Factories people either do not distinguish butter from margarine or they use the term “butter” interchangeably for both margarine and butter since when they do not complain when they were given margarine instead of butter. Furthermore, the author supports his claim based on the premise that throughout the South Western United States, very few people complained after they replaced butter with margarine. However, before evaluating the author’s argument two unstated assumptions need to be answered.
Firstly, the author argues that after replacing butter with margarine throughout the restaurants in South Western United States only 2 per cent of people complain about the change since they can not differentiate between butter and margarine without any legitimate evidence. One may raise the question about the authenticity of the strategy of using circumstances from one thing to generalize and predict another. Maybe there are only 3 Happy Pancake restaurants throughout South Western United States and most of their restaurants are situated in Noth Eastern United States. Then one can not say that people can not distinguish between butter and margarine based on the very small sample size. If the above scenario is true then the author’s argument is built unreliably. The author does not provide any admissible evidence about the number of restaurants of Happy Pancake Company. If the author can provide more data perhaps in a form of a statistical data set regarding the total number of restaurants in each region throughout the United States then it will be possible to evaluate the author’s argument to a certain extent.
Secondly, the author states that many servers reported that people do not complain after being given margarine upon asking to butter indicates that people use the term butter and margarine interchangeably without any proper evidence. One may raise questions about the authenticity of the server's report. Maybe most of the servers do not report correctly even though the customers complained about margarine. Even if this is not the case, maybe despite getting margarine instead of butter they did not complain but avoided visiting the restaurants in the future. In that case, the author’s argument holds no water. The author does not provide any genuine evidence regarding the customers' complaints and servers’ reports. The author has to offer more evidence perhaps in the form of a survey of each server's report to rectify his argument. Perhaps, most of the customers distinguish between butter and margarine and never came back to those restaurants instead of complaining.
In conclusion, the author’s argument is flawed due to its reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to elucidate the two unstated assumptions above and offer more evidence perhaps in the form of a systematic research study then it will be possible to evaluate the viability of the proposed recommendation that people can not distinguish margarine from butter or they use them butter for nboth butter and margarine.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 696, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ne based on the very small sample size. If the above scenario is true then the aut...
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Line 3, column 884, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...f restaurants of Happy Pancake Company. If the author can provide more data perhap...
^^
Line 4, column 806, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[3]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'report rectifying'.
Suggestion: report rectifying
...in the form of a survey of each servers report to rectify his argument. Perhaps, most of the cust...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, as to, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 55.5748502994 135% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2646.0 2260.96107784 117% => OK
No of words: 494.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35627530364 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71445763274 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83422497724 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.404858299595 0.468620217663 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 836.1 705.55239521 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 78.1277799505 57.8364921388 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.3 119.503703932 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7 23.324526521 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.55 5.70786347227 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.214210441547 0.218282227539 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0702033836143 0.0743258471296 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0792391572248 0.0701772020484 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140704170929 0.128457276422 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0729181635564 0.0628817314937 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 14.3799401198 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.3550499002 80% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.83 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 98.500998004 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 696, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ne based on the very small sample size. If the above scenario is true then the aut...
^^
Line 3, column 884, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...f restaurants of Happy Pancake Company. If the author can provide more data perhap...
^^
Line 4, column 806, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[3]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'report rectifying'.
Suggestion: report rectifying
...in the form of a survey of each servers report to rectify his argument. Perhaps, most of the cust...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, as to, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 55.5748502994 135% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2646.0 2260.96107784 117% => OK
No of words: 494.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35627530364 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71445763274 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83422497724 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.404858299595 0.468620217663 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 836.1 705.55239521 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 78.1277799505 57.8364921388 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.3 119.503703932 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7 23.324526521 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.55 5.70786347227 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.214210441547 0.218282227539 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0702033836143 0.0743258471296 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0792391572248 0.0701772020484 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140704170929 0.128457276422 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0729181635564 0.0628817314937 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 14.3799401198 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.3550499002 80% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.83 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 98.500998004 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.