We can learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own.
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.
The statement whether we learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own is controversial On the surface, it appears that we would learn a lot by associating with people who have same opinions as our own as it would be easy to work with them and there won't be a waste of time in contending each other. However, a deeper look at the topic reveals that actually we can only learn something new or profound from people whoes views differ from our own view. The primary reason behind it has to do with the fact that associating with people of same opinions won't broaden our horizons. We won't learn anything new from what we already know. On other hand, people holding opposite or contradictory view can impart us knowledge or give us vision to visualize the problem at hand from a different perspective which may reveal a new insight in the subject.
The field of science and technology has progressed immeasurably owing to the great work of our scientists and engineers. If we look at the underlying causes of some important innovations and breakthroughs, we would find that great work came from those who looked at the nature from unorthodox viewpoint. For instance, the classic discovery by Galileo that the Earth roates around the Sun contrary to the firmly held belief that the Earth was the centre of the universe and everything revolved around the Earth. The people of the Church were adament to their view and instead of discussing Galileo's viewpoint rationally they sent him to a jail. However, some prudent scientist working on astronomical observations studied the argument of Galileo without any personal bias and they found that indeed Galieo's theory was correct. Physicists of that time even used Galieo's theory to explain other phenomena such as why planets revolve in an elliptical fashion. This examples shows that we can get new insights from a person holding a different view from us. Further, one has to be open minded to opinions from others otherwise even if the opponent is correct, we won't be able to gain anything.
Not only in science but in businesses also we find that people with un-orthodox opinions are the creators of novel products. Take for example the case of Steve jobs. It was by his creative imaginations and the power to forsee future in a manner different from others that made him the CEO of one of the biggest companies in
the world. He invented the concept of touchscreen smartphones and manifested this concept through his product called iPhone. No-one at the time could have imagined that people can operate a phone by touching their fingers on the screen. Those who accepted the ingenuity of Steves idea benefited as well. Today we see a plethora of smart-screen phones in the marked. The button mobile phones are a history now.
In sum, we do learn a lot from people holding different opinons than ours simply because they give us a different way to look at the problem a hand which could enlighten to come up with a novel solutions. However, it is also true that we have to have an open mind set in order to dervive benefit from the contrasting view points otherwise a blanket of dogma can bound our imaginations to a limited area.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, look, may, so, well, as to, for example, for instance, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.4196629213 177% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 40.0 11.3162921348 353% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 116.0 33.0505617978 351% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 172.0 58.6224719101 293% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 5350.0 2235.4752809 239% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 1123.0 442.535393258 254% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76402493321 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.78888522604 4.55969084622 127% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61385903051 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 287.0 215.323595506 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.255565449688 0.4932671777 52% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1669.5 704.065955056 237% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 20.0 6.24550561798 320% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 16.0 4.99550561798 320% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 46.0 20.2370786517 227% => Too many sentences.
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.2204124586 60.3974514979 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.304347826 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4130434783 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.08695652174 5.21951772744 40% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 10.0 4.97078651685 201% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 14.0 7.80617977528 179% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.2758426966 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 24.0 4.83258426966 497% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.361085784972 0.243740707755 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0929143105674 0.0831039109588 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0935920603228 0.0758088955206 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186433889032 0.150359130593 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.126796099919 0.0667264976115 190% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.71 8.38706741573 80% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 100.480337079 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 11.8971910112 147% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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