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

To measure the effectiveness of a leaders, which in itself is a complicated subject to define, by just the parameter of well-being of citizenry seems unfair. Also, well-being of citizens is an elusive topic to be measured.

Well-being of a citizens depends on many factors that may not be influenced by leadership alone. For instance, a country rich in resources like minerals, oils, rivers, fertile soils and moderate temperatures would be self sufficient and not depend on extrinsic help. The people of such country would unlikely be affected by famine or draughts. There are more chances of such countries to prosper. Now consider an average government in this country and an excellent government in country which is not so rich in its resources. It is very likely in this situation that both the nations may do equally well or that the first nation is doing better that the second. In this scenario, the leader of the second nation are doing their best and their efforts are bearing fruits, but the same result can be achieved by the first nation with little effort. Thus the well being of citizens, alone, does not provide an unbiased scale to measure the leaderships.

Even if we assume for the moment that well being of citizens does depend on good governance alone, it becomes difficult to measure this “well being”. We may try to define well being in terms of happiness of citizens, but this in itself is subjective. If we define it in terms of per capita income, an objective quantity, then we need to ask if the wealth is almost uniformly distributed. If we try to define it in terms of availability of food and shelter for most of the population, then is this the result of industrious citizens or is it being provided by leadership. There are various factors like health care, crime rate and calamity control that can be added to the list. Even so, how does one go about evaluating such intangible qualities. Does a survey restricted to few citizens reflect the actual scenario? It can also be the case that the policies adopted by leaders is biased to towards urban areas, or it may show immediate results in urban localities. People in rural areas might not be well aware of the policies that the government has enacted for them. There may be many people who are always dissatisfied with the ruling party, no matter its action, blaming them of corruption and appropriation of government funds for every new policy they adopt. Because of censorious media that does little to appreciate the good, such cynicism among people is prevalent. Thus, not only is well being hard to define, but is also difficult to objectively measure.

Hence, effectiveness of leaders cannot be measured in terms of well being of citizens, as well being depends on many factors that may be extrinsic to leadership. There is no instrument that can take various factors into consideration and give a measure of “well being” eliminating all the biases that may exist in a system.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 33, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a leader' or simply 'leaders'?
Suggestion: a leader; leaders
To measure the effectiveness of a leaders, which in itself is a complicated subje...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e topic to be measured. Well-being of a citizens depends on many factors that ...
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Line 3, column 16, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a citizen' or simply 'citizens'?
Suggestion: a citizen; citizens
...topic to be measured. Well-being of a citizens depends on many factors that may not be...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...c help. The people of such country would unlikely be affected by famine or draugh...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...by the first nation with little effort. Thus the well being of citizens, alone, does...
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Line 5, column 783, Rule ID: TO_TOO[2]
Message: Did you mean 'too'?
Suggestion: too
...ble qualities. Does a survey restricted to few citizens reflect the actual scenari...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...give a measure of 'well being' eliminating all the biases that may exis...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'hence', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'well', 'even so', 'for instance']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.211169284468 0.240241500013 88% => OK
Verbs: 0.167539267016 0.157235817809 107% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0907504363002 0.0880659088768 103% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0732984293194 0.0497285424764 147% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0366492146597 0.0444667217837 82% => OK
Prepositions: 0.12739965096 0.12292977631 104% => OK
Participles: 0.0506108202443 0.0406280797675 125% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.75420338641 2.79330140395 99% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0279232111693 0.030933414821 90% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0802792321117 0.0997080785238 81% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0261780104712 0.0249443105267 105% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0191972076789 0.0148568991511 129% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2995.0 2732.02544248 110% => OK
No of words: 510.0 452.878318584 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.87254901961 6.0361032391 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75217629947 4.58838876751 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.352941176471 0.366273622748 96% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.264705882353 0.280924506359 94% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.170588235294 0.200843997647 85% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.13137254902 0.132149295362 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75420338641 2.79330140395 99% => OK
Unique words: 244.0 219.290929204 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478431372549 0.48968727796 98% => OK
Word variations: 55.7797637181 55.4138127331 101% => OK
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6194690265 116% => OK
Sentence length: 21.25 23.380412469 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.8110622988 59.4972553346 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.791666667 141.124799967 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.25 23.380412469 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.541666666667 0.674092028746 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.21349557522 134% => OK
Readability: 47.7205882353 51.4728631049 93% => OK
Elegance: 1.40251572327 1.64882698954 85% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.507527802918 0.391690518653 130% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.140794126403 0.123202303941 114% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.091281201839 0.077325440228 118% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.463253246575 0.547984918172 85% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.175006096412 0.149214159877 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.189773991031 0.161403998019 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0909965973591 0.0892212321368 102% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.465407735933 0.385218514788 121% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0758480442884 0.0692045440612 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.383351850716 0.275328986314 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.047388133032 0.0653680567796 72% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.4325221239 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.30420353982 170% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88274336283 61% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 7.22455752212 152% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 3.66592920354 191% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.70907079646 37% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 13.5995575221 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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