As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.
The view says as technologies rapidly develop, people will lose their thinking abilities. This assertion is somewhat true since some basic thinking has indeed decreased. However, I believe core intellectual abilities such as a learning ability and reasoning skills are enhanced even faster, and we should conclude advanced technologies improve our thinking power.
Thinking abilities related to simple repetition seem to be really deteriorated nowadays. This is because people do not need to use those abilities any more in daily life. At work, employees use not only calendar softwares to consider all company schedules, but also computers to save contacts of companies for which they work. Furthermore, people usually leverage Excel to manage their financial status. While cooking, no house wife and house husband memorize all recipes since they can search for them anytime they want. This is, people fully exploit technologies to handle basic and simple tasks, in above cases, like calculating and memorizing. This truly causes decreasing human’s abilities of those kinds.
However, does this mean that all intellectual abilities have been ebbed? I believe it is not true and thinking power has risen at this technology period. Take into account the learning ability first. As technologies have developed, humans need to learn more and more to cover these technologies. In elementary school, students should learn algorithms and skills to use a computer like Excel and Powerpoint. Moreover, social science departments require their students to study coding mandatory, which never happened 5 years ago. Workers’ situation is the same; they have to spend their time learning new technologies such as AI.
More powerful reasoning abilities are also required in this high technology society due to hyper connections emerged by advanced communication and transport. When a typhoon occurs in South America, the price of fruit in Japan would surge, and if an earthquake hit Taiwan, the factories of Samsung in Korea might have to halt at a moment. Hence, workers who are responsible for supply management have to consider other nations’s status. Like this, governments also face more difficult situations. Even simple changes in their policies could have severe effects on other countries, and, of course, themselves. Therefore, contemporary people need to have much more thinking power to solve problems in this globally connected society which come from advanced technologies.
To sum up, I believe the development of technologies accelerates our thinking abilities. Thus, it is time to think about how to increase intellectual abilities faster, not to concern decreased human abilities by technologies, which might never happen.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, moreover, really, so, therefore, thus, while, of course, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 58.6224719101 89% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2329.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 419.0 442.535393258 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.5584725537 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52432199235 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86308459119 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 249.0 215.323595506 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594272076372 0.4932671777 120% => OK
syllable_count: 734.4 704.065955056 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.7102053727 60.3974514979 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.16 118.986275619 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.76 23.4991977007 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.04 5.21951772744 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.305543846636 0.243740707755 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0816394418517 0.0831039109588 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0669787763815 0.0758088955206 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170891573031 0.150359130593 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0148915472563 0.0667264976115 22% => 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: 13.1 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 38.31 48.8420337079 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.67 12.1639044944 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 100.480337079 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, moreover, really, so, therefore, thus, while, of course, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 58.6224719101 89% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2329.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 419.0 442.535393258 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.5584725537 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52432199235 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86308459119 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 249.0 215.323595506 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594272076372 0.4932671777 120% => OK
syllable_count: 734.4 704.065955056 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.7102053727 60.3974514979 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.16 118.986275619 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.76 23.4991977007 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.04 5.21951772744 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.305543846636 0.243740707755 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0816394418517 0.0831039109588 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0669787763815 0.0758088955206 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170891573031 0.150359130593 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0148915472563 0.0667264976115 22% => 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: 13.1 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 38.31 48.8420337079 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.67 12.1639044944 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 100.480337079 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 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.