The effectiveness of a country s leaders is best measured by examining the well being of that country s citizens Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position

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The effectiveness of a country's leaders is best measured by examining the well being of that country's citizens.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

The well-being of a citizen of that country is a safe indicator of how the country is doing overall. Are the citizens healthy? Are they happy? Do they feel safe? These are all great questions to ask. Some might suggest that these questions regarding the well-being of that country’s citizens is the best method to measure how effective a country’s leader is. However, for 2 reasons, I strongly disagree with this notion and I believe that there is a better method.

First, measuring the well-being of a person is a difficult task to perform and one that is very vague. For example, in the United States, different regions of the country could be flourishing while other regions could be heavily struggling. This dramatically affects the desire of people to be willing to help out if a study of “citizens wellbeing” were to be conducted. For example, someone that is struggling to make ends meet, will be obligated with other priorites and most likely will not be willing to participate in the survey. Meanwhile, other indvididuals who are doing well, could be more likely to participate in the surveys. This suggest there could be a potential skew in the data, which would deterious to the study.

Furthermore, measuring well-being of a person is not a good measure of how effective a country’s leader is. During difficult economic times such as a recession, people might be struggling, mentally, physically, and emotionally. This is not fault of the country’s leader, as the leader is just dealt with a bad situation. For example, during the 2008 recession, a study indicated that people’s financial situations and happiness were at an all time low. However, a second study also showed that people’s satisfication with the leader’s action during his presidency were fairly high.

Critics to this line of thought would say that although well-being of citizens fluculate due to circumstances, most things do as well. These critics have a valid point. The economy of a country and the relations with other countries are not always constant. I agree with these critics and I believe that this idea further proves my point. Measuring an objective item such as policy changes would be a better measurement of a leader’s effectiveness. Policy changes shows the leader’s action during times of which they are called upon. If a leader were to show creative thinking, willingness to make tough necessary decisions and quick actions, then a leader would be deemed effect.

Citizen’s well being is important and sometimes, it can be a good indicator of how well a section of the country is doing. However, it is not a good measurement of how effective a leader is. Therefore, a better solution would be to measure policy changes that a leader makes in response to difficult situations.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, regarding, second, so, then, therefore, well, while, for example, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 45.0 19.5258426966 230% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 58.6224719101 92% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2352.0 2235.4752809 105% => OK
No of words: 465.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05806451613 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64369019777 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9274181206 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.451612903226 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 716.4 704.065955056 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.0279117287 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.0 118.986275619 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6071428571 23.4991977007 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.21951772744 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.32299336666 0.243740707755 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0937079379588 0.0831039109588 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0714273930535 0.0758088955206 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.205227632614 0.150359130593 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0372647609365 0.0667264976115 56% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 48.8420337079 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.1743820225 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.77 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 100.480337079 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 11.8971910112 46% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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