Scientists and other researchers should focus their research on areas that are likely to benefit the greatest number of people.
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.
Some people think that scientists and other researchers should only work on research areas that leads to direct benefits for a large number of people. While it is agreeable to some extent that focusing on those fields may be more favorable, this essay will contend that this is not always the best decision. Instead, there are also advantages coming from research and development that in its current state doesn't seem directly beneficial to people.
Admittedly, it is important to work on researches that are likely to provide great convenience or happiness to a great number of people, for it can make people's daily lives more efficient and accelerate the productivity of their works. For one, Thomas Edison had a will to provide everyone a long-lasting source of light, did a lot of work to find a material to compose an efficient filament for light bulb, and eventually invented a practical electric light bulb. After his invention, most of the people were given a stable light source, which greatly improved their convenience. For another example, Edward Jenner wanted to defeat the smallpox which had been an epidemic disease that threatened lots of people. He did a research for a long period of time trying to find a smallpox vaccine, and finally succeeded in creating a vaccine using cowpox. Later, his work on smallpox vaccine became widespread throughout the world, and eventually humans were completely free from the fear of smallpox. As shown in the above examples, there are many cases where focusing on such areas provided great convenience and health for human race.
Nevertheless, this doesn't mean that only those kinds of research and development deserve spotlight, since there are many cases that didn't seem to have any practical application at time it had discovered but later turns out to have applications that can benefit lots of people. For instance, Sir Isaac Newton's works on physics such as Newton's laws of motion or the discovery of universal gravitation are now assessed as one of the great achievements in natural science, but at the time they were only theoretic and didn't have any application that directly affect people's lives. However, lots of mechanical machines easily found in factories are based on mechanical engineering, which is obviously built upon Newton's physics. Moreover, many great mathematicians such as Karl Weierstrass or Évariste Galois, acknowledged respectively as the fathers of mathematical analysis and algebra, were far from considering practical application or benefits to human. Nonetheless, these mathematics became the groundwork of aforementioned physics and engineering, and today there is no doubt on the usefulness of these mathematics. As such, the above examples prove the necessity of scienctific research that seemingly have no benefits to people.
Therefore, it is logical to say that research and development without practical purposes also has a potential to benefit the greatest number of people, in that it may help develop another research area that has an obvious practical application. For example, there are various advanced mathematical fields such as differential geometry and functional analysis that looks like they are excessively involved and are only of interest to pure mathematicians. However, artificial intelligence (AI) technology, which is everywhere in our lives these days, has achieved great advancement in recent years with aid of those intricate mathematics. Thus, many of the mathematicians nowadays engage in a joint project with AI researchers, and their works influence our lives in ways such as AI assistant and recommendation systems. This means that lots of works on research areas that are not likely to have any direct application to a great number of people can potentially benefit those people in some indirect ways.
In sum, it is partially agreeable that focusing on areas that likely to have beneficial influences on people is important. However, in view of the above discussion, it is equally important that many of the researchers work on areas that don't seem to have the effects. Moreover, these two kinds of research areas are not mutually exclusive and can encourage significant advancements to each other.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 126, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...d development that in its current state doesnt seem directly beneficial to people. ...
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Line 3, column 721, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'research'.
Suggestion: research
... that threatened lots of people. He did a research for a long period of time trying to fin...
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Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...of people. He did a research for a long period of time trying to find a smallpox vaccine, and ...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...h for human race. Nevertheless, this doesnt mean that only those kinds of research ...
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Line 5, column 90, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to spotlight'
Suggestion: to spotlight
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...tlight, since there are many cases that didnt seem to have any practical application ...
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Suggestion: didn't
...t the time they were only theoretic and didnt have any application that directly affe...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, look, may, moreover, nevertheless, nonetheless, so, therefore, thus, while, for example, for instance, in fact, no doubt, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 14.8657303371 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 27.0 11.3162921348 239% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 53.0 33.0505617978 160% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 94.0 58.6224719101 160% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3560.0 2235.4752809 159% => OK
No of words: 672.0 442.535393258 152% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.29761904762 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.09145979004 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96146356383 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 314.0 215.323595506 146% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.467261904762 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1133.1 704.065955056 161% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 51.4349643293 60.3974514979 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.333333333 118.986275619 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.0 23.4991977007 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.75 5.21951772744 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 7.80617977528 115% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 22.0 10.2758426966 214% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.220996260623 0.243740707755 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0689960632101 0.0831039109588 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0615323170804 0.0758088955206 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.143311344573 0.150359130593 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0522267872795 0.0667264976115 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.5 14.1392134831 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.6 48.8420337079 71% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.1743820225 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.76 12.1639044944 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 168.0 100.480337079 167% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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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