People who are the most deeply committed to an idea or policy are also the most critical of it.
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.
It is popularly believed that persons who are most profoundly committed to a concept or ideal tend to be critical to it. Although this idea has some supportive evidences in particular when we have a deal with scientists, it may be easily refuted if we take a closer look at religious zealots who are unwilling to accept even the most glaring facts which are in conflict with their faith. Thus, an act of devotion may lead to two opposing consequences: if a person wants to improve and refine his or her concept, one will be most critical to the idea; however, if one is blindly committed to an ideal or belief, he or she will not be able to critically look at it.
First of all, one of the best examples of people who are deeply committed to an idea and at the same time who are the most picky about it are scholars. Scientific research has a goal of learning about the nature and universe and the truth is the biggest treasury of it. Consequently, they are able to unbiasedly scrutiny their ideas and basis of them. For instance, Albert Einstein, who created the theory of relativity which has changed the way by which we perceive the world, initially made a mistake in his calculations. After the mistake was found, Einstein was willing to accept the critique and refine his work. The ability of pundits to accept evidences and critique is caused by their devotion to the idea and desire to improve it.
However, when we have dealing with religion the situation is dramatically different. Throughout history we may find evidences that religious devotion to an idea blinded believers in their ability to critically analyze facts which are in confrontation with their point of view. For instance, the holy inquisition and its refusal to accept the convincing evidences that the sun is the center of the solar system and that our planet is orbiting the star. You may think that it is our past and today religious believers who completely committed to their ideas cannot possibly behave in such a way but look at their attitude to Darwin's theory of evolution. Despite the plethora of evidences which were found under ground and tomes of carefully collected information about species and their development; these people refuse to accept them. The possible reason of this situation may be that they are committed to the faith and religion asks its followers to blindly accept and do not doubt.
In conclusion, although deep commitment to an idea may lead, in some cases, to a critical perception of the idea, it is not an absolute rule and sometimes blind devotion leads to mindless and uncritical acceptation of an idea.
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'consequently', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'so', 'thus', 'for instance', 'in conclusion', 'in particular', 'first of all', 'in some cases']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.223790322581 0.240241500013 93% => OK
Verbs: 0.161290322581 0.157235817809 103% => OK
Adjectives: 0.054435483871 0.0880659088768 62% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0524193548387 0.0497285424764 105% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0745967741935 0.0444667217837 168% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.108870967742 0.12292977631 89% => OK
Participles: 0.0302419354839 0.0406280797675 74% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.69590161561 2.79330140395 97% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0524193548387 0.030933414821 169% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0947580645161 0.0997080785238 95% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0181451612903 0.0249443105267 73% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0282258064516 0.0148568991511 190% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2629.0 2732.02544248 96% => OK
No of words: 455.0 452.878318584 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.77802197802 6.0361032391 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61852021839 4.58838876751 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.327472527473 0.366273622748 89% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.254945054945 0.280924506359 91% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.197802197802 0.200843997647 98% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.123076923077 0.132149295362 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69590161561 2.79330140395 97% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 219.290929204 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.47032967033 0.48968727796 96% => OK
Word variations: 52.6588155185 55.4138127331 95% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6194690265 78% => OK
Sentence length: 28.4375 23.380412469 122% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.1552004876 59.4972553346 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 164.3125 141.124799967 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.4375 23.380412469 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.875 0.674092028746 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.21349557522 0% => OK
Readability: 53.9320054945 51.4728631049 105% => OK
Elegance: 1.25874125874 1.64882698954 76% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.533251368897 0.391690518653 136% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.125202782037 0.123202303941 102% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0596968941208 0.077325440228 77% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.587782607399 0.547984918172 107% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.15980088649 0.149214159877 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.2299375384 0.161403998019 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0796812602269 0.0892212321368 89% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.441865095094 0.385218514788 115% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.11737039679 0.0692045440612 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.371603509595 0.275328986314 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0780669342084 0.0653680567796 119% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.4325221239 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.30420353982 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88274336283 61% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 7.22455752212 111% => OK
Negative topic words: 0.0 3.66592920354 0% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.70907079646 37% => OK
Total topic words: 9.0 13.5995575221 66% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.