Governments should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
We are currently living in the twenty first century wherein there is a technological bloom, many countries have started preparing for their manned mission to mars, significant advances accomplished in various fields such as medicine, biology, etc. In this context, the prompt recommends that governments should not manacle scientific research and development, rather leave them unfettered. In my opinion, I mostly agree with the side which recommends lesser restraints on scientific development and research.
To begin, any research or developmental process requires time to produce any significant results. The computer was not found in one day nor was the theory of relativity by Einstein. Moreover, one of the major drawbacks of scientific research is that you can’t be sure if a particular research will actually produce any significant results. There are many research projects that have resulted in a failure either because the research group did not get the intended results or the research group received results which faired poorly compared to the existing ones. On top of these if there are any restrictions added on research, the researchers will have an extra burden to carry. For example, there was a Phd student in my college who had a deadline by which he had to submit his research findings to the government board. Given that the deadline was very near and if he didn’t submit it this time then he will have to wait for another year, so he hurriedly finished with his work and submitted what he could. Of course his work got rejected. So to reiterate adding restrictions on top of existing problems for researchers will lead to excess burden on them and therefore could impair the progress severely.
Secondly, adding any research based on time will definitely not lead to any development or any new research findings. I say so because in research and development, no one can be sure if what they are working on will be completed by the given deadline. Moreover, in scientific research or development the path is always not clear, to rephrase at any point in time new problems can spring up and it becomes necessary to solve them. For example, consider India’s space mission to Moon, they had a deadline by which they had to finish with the space shuttle but due to many technical glitches they had to postpone the date of the mission itself. Just so they couldn’t finish within the deadline doesn’t mean the mission didn’t happen, it was postponed because of technical issues which if not corrected would have resulted in huge losses according to the missions plans. Thus, a restriction based on time will not work when it comes to research and development.
However, I believe that the current restrictions that are imposed based on funding should not be discontinued. I believe so because it helps to keep a check on scientific progress made. When the research is funded by someone, the researches will have to show how they spent that money. Moreover, when they run out of funds they’ll have to apply for grants again which will require them to show progress as well. I believe this to be necessary because it will help scientists and developers to streamline their progress rather than deviating to other ones. To rephrase, when these funds are given they are given based on a research proposal, so when you start working you are required to show wether your research ended in a success or it ended in a failure but what you can’t do is provide results for another research problem started in the middle of the fund’s tenure. Thus enforcing restrictions based on money is in a way helpful to scientists, to keep them focused on one problem at a time.
In conclusion the problem on enforcing governmental restrictions on research and development is a complex one and I mostly agree with the claim that the restrictions should be few, if any.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus, well, for example, in conclusion, of course, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 59.0 33.0505617978 179% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 84.0 58.6224719101 143% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3274.0 2235.4752809 146% => OK
No of words: 654.0 442.535393258 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00611620795 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.05701727356 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84819498053 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 283.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.432721712538 0.4932671777 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 999.9 704.065955056 142% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.2666056367 60.3974514979 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.923076923 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1538461538 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.03846153846 5.21951772744 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.13820224719 214% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.216234884876 0.243740707755 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.066245454363 0.0831039109588 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0555071747369 0.0758088955206 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14710905734 0.150359130593 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0331251077792 0.0667264976115 50% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.8420337079 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 142.0 100.480337079 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => 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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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