Governments should not fund any scientific research whose consequences are unclear.
Scientific and technological advancements over the past few centuries have raised the standards of living, increased average life-span through superior medical facilities and connected the world together through faster means of transportation and communication. Today, countries with the latest technologies are considered to be one of the most powerful and developed. Considering that a vast majority of scientific researches are carried out under the funding of the government, it becomes germane to ask whether the government should fund a research the consequences of which are unclear.
Determining whether or not Government should invest in a research with unclear consequences seems vague because there are no specific models to judge the extent to which certain projects are unclear. Unless a strategy to effectively divide scientific research into two broad categories: clear and unclear is developed, decisions on which research gets a grant cannot be made.
The fundamental of scientific research is the discovery of the unknown which leads to another unknown, this curiosity of man has led to development over the years. Billions of dollars have been invested by the NASA in attempt to understand the scope of the solar system, yet there is no comprehensive theory to facilitate human understanding of the outer space and humans have not stopped being optimistic for more findings. Research answers questions and provides proactive solutions. Had funding of research in renewable energy been stopped, the possible solution to the problem of air pollution with greenhouse gas leading to global warming may not, at all, be in view.
A defective research today might yield a substantial result tomorrow. For instance, it is said that Thomas Edison found the suitable material for the electric bulb after about a thousand trials. If his research was graded unclear after the first hundred trials, the world would probably still use fire for light and every bulb-based invention which came afterwards may not have been discovered.
On the other hand, when the government is faced with issues like poverty, starvation or illiteracy, funding a scientific research may seem like a misplacement of priority or waste of money. Taking the current world situation into consideration, should government funds be directed to providing palliatives to survive in the pandemic or to creating a cure/vaccine to COVID-19? Of course, they are both important, however, it would be wise to fund the research of the vaccine to mitigate death rate in the country.
In conclusion, continuous research is required for the growth and development of a nation. However, funding of research with obvious deleterious consequences by the government should be considered unwise.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 13, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...nces of which are unclear. Determining whether or not Government should invest in a research ...
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Line 2, column 56, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'research'.
Suggestion: research
...ther or not Government should invest in a research with unclear consequences seems vague b...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, so, still, for instance, in conclusion, of course, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 33.0505617978 24% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2337.0 2235.4752809 105% => OK
No of words: 428.0 442.535393258 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.46028037383 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.548423998 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03216211943 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 246.0 215.323595506 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.57476635514 0.4932671777 117% => OK
syllable_count: 715.5 704.065955056 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => 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: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.1622600175 60.3974514979 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.470588235 118.986275619 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1764705882 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47058823529 5.21951772744 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.372010728562 0.243740707755 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121247251043 0.0831039109588 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11924718428 0.0758088955206 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.208054400564 0.150359130593 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0920444837795 0.0667264976115 138% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 14.1392134831 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.8420337079 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.1639044944 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.82 8.38706741573 117% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 100.480337079 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.0 11.8971910112 134% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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.