Much of the information that people assume is 'factual' actually turns out to be inaccurate.
Thus, any piece of information referred to as a 'fact' should be mistrusted since it may well be
proven false in the future.
The ongoing contention between facts and factitious statements have been in this world since ages. The matter of the fact is that, facts recorded or preserved in the form they were first discovered don't contribute much to this fracas. In my opinion we must trust the facts only after we've made sure the credibility of its source. Trusting something to be a fact is not a one step process but a two step process where one must so the gruelling task of checking the credibility of the source. My opinions on this issue are elaborated in the following three paragraphs.
Firstly, people are often lackadaisical or impatient and don't prefer giving importance and time to fact checking. It can be cited as an example that most of the political campaign touting in the contemporary world involves misrepresentation of statements and reports and presenting them as facts to the people with suffrage. This has been seen and studied and reported to have influenced large sections of the society to be beguiled into believing those falsely claimed as "factual" statements to be facts. This goes to show that had the people or the voters relied on fact checking and aportioned a small amount of their time to determining the credibility of the campaign advertisement claims, they could've avoided themselved from getting fooled. Thus we should trust something as a fact only after establishing it as one when the sources are legitimate and veracious.
Secondly, with the advent of technology it has been become increasingly daunting for the general popilation to regularly fact-check everything. Technology has always perpetuated some negative aspects of it and this is one of those disadvantages. Technological advancements for example social media has lead to the wide spread epidemics of misinformation reaching and infecting people on a daily basis. Sadly there and rarely any effective technological inocculation against this other than spending your time on manual fact-checking of each and every bit of information reaching you. Back in the day, when technology was not as advanced as the present times, print media was one of the primary carrier of misinformation. Thus it technological advancements through the ages have always bewildered people when it comes to embibing information and judging its reliability and credibility.
Lastly, one man's facts are always for some another man a bogus claim. This results from Cognitive Dissonance. People tend to not accept something as fact based on a belief even though someone is trying to justify their claim's credibility to them with suitable evidence and appurtenants. For example scientists have been warning people about the climate change and how it can be deleterious to our existence on the earth, but there are large sections of the society and even governments who fail to accept it has a fact, even when presented with statistical and proven experimental data on the same. Thus, we must not cease to trust on facts but rather accept the fact that Cognitive Dissonance exists and has been a key feature of the human race since its inception.
In conclusion, there might be many impediments like technological challenges, discord, personal biases that make things seem as facts or not facts at times, but that should never be hamstringing our trust on facts.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, thus, for example, in conclusion, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 28.0 14.8657303371 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2784.0 2235.4752809 125% => OK
No of words: 540.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15555555556 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82057051367 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04816389897 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 273.0 215.323595506 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505555555556 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 877.5 704.065955056 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.772438294 60.3974514979 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.545454545 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5454545455 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.63636363636 5.21951772744 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.209698580854 0.243740707755 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0571472048533 0.0831039109588 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0450043663054 0.0758088955206 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126259515554 0.150359130593 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0397730239336 0.0667264976115 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.1392134831 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 137.0 100.480337079 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.