As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.
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.
From my personal perspective, this is a topic as complicated as topics abortion and gun control that are worth of our attention and discussion. Honestly, it is quite impossible to thoroughly examine it in such a short essay composed in thirty minutes. However, I would like tho share my few thoughts on this matter here.
As an individual in my twenties, like many of my peers, I do use a large amount of tech devices in my daily life, such as smartphones, tablets, voice control “Alexa,” and other smart devices. Many of these high-tech pieces have brought convenience to our busy modern life and are very user-friendly. As a result, I do agree that our lives are more and more influenced by technology. However, I thinks it is questionable to state that utilization of technology is detrimental to our thinking ability.
First of all, how would you define “the ability of humans to think for themselves?” There are simply many different types of thinking abilities such as, critical thinking skills and problem solving skills. There are people who are simply lazy and resort to these high-tech resources to complete simple tasks. For instance, instead of doing the simple calculation on their own, many people rely on calculators while they are budgeting their monthly expenses. In this sense, it is likely that their mathematical abilities may be declining. I think this type of people are abusively using technology, as a result, their “thinking ability” may really deteriate (please note that it is the people, not the technology who plays the fundamental role here).
However, it is not appropriate to conclude that each individual’s thinking ability’s degradation is correlated to the application of technology. To begin with, to develop these tech, people are likely to develop innovative concepts and skills that are not in existence in the past, which requires human beings’ “brain power” to comprehend something new. Second, to use these tech, people are involuntarily adapting to new types of skills with the potential replacement of some old skills. For example, it maybe the case that many people stop doing elementary calculations, but they use the save time and energy to do more advanced coding. There is a shift of abilities. The changes in abilities are not equivalent to the deterioration of our human “thinking” abilities.
In a conclusion, although there are people who choose to overly rely on technology, it is somewhat presumptious to state that “technology” is the culprit for their mental innanity. Because of newly developed technology, people may not be using the same set of skills as in the history, but they are developing a new group of “thinking abilities”. I believe this is no more of a shift than a “deterioration.”
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...believe this is no more of a shift than a 'deterioration.'
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, honestly, however, if, may, really, second, so, while, as to, for example, for instance, i think, such as, as a result, first of all, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 33.0505617978 157% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2403.0 2235.4752809 107% => OK
No of words: 455.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28131868132 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61852021839 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.50836700664 2.79657885939 125% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 215.323595506 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512087912088 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 783.9 704.065955056 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.7353049047 60.3974514979 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.428571429 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6666666667 23.4991977007 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.57142857143 5.21951772744 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => 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: 0.168844572406 0.243740707755 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0538890592958 0.0831039109588 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0487888213038 0.0758088955206 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0918329605213 0.150359130593 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.054668986269 0.0667264976115 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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.