Scientists and other researchers should focus their research on areas that are likely to benefit the greatest number of people.
Advancements in scientific knowledge has enabled people to prosper on earth and construct the society which we live today. It is of common interest of people wondering what future the science will lead us next, considering the change of everyday life of people the scientists have brought in the past. Also, it is debatable about which goal the scientists should pursue; whether scientists should always seek to help greater number of people or not.
Certainly, it seems plausible that scientists should focus on benefiting bigger number of people. Some of the scientific advancements that are commonly regarded as to have reshaped the human society, were the ones that involved benefiting the entirety of human race. For instance, if it was not Louis Pasteur, who first introduced the concept of viruses, proper treatment for many diseases might have not been developed. With Pasteur’s work, people who are infected with diseases that had been considered lethal before, can be treated properly in hospitals. This effort by Pasteur is a good example of which science focused in treating great number of people was a meaningful attempt. Accordingly, it seems that scientific advancements which benefits broad range of people is to a degree reasonable.
However, it does not mean that benefit of the majority should always be the priority in scientific research. While there are people who suffer from commonly known diseases, there are also an amount of people who suffer from rare diseases. Although it is plausible to treat people infected with popular contagious diseases, science should not leave out people who suffer from rare diseases. For instance, the World Health Organization, provides definition of “rare disease”, and attempts to identify them when newly reported. Although the depth of understanding of rare diseases might be shallow, without the effort to advance its knowledge people must suffer relentlessly. Thus, the value of scientific research that benefits few numbers of people must also be considered important.
Furthermore, researches scientists conduct to gratify their own interest can also be very significant. Many of the revolutionary findings were from scientists pursuing their own curiosity. For example, it is told that sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity to answer his own curiosity of what made an apple fall on his head. Eventually, his discovery later changed the people’s view of the world greatly and contributed to many of the scientific advancements. If Isaac Newton was forced to conduct research only to benefit the society, he might have been discouraged. Therefore, forcing scientists to narrow their focus on benefiting major group of people can hamper their new discoveries.
In summary, serving bigger number of people may be considered important in scientific research. However, it must not be the only purpose of scientific advancement as there are people in need of more specific help and can hamper innovation.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 100, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: Some
... on benefiting bigger number of people. Some of the scientific advancements that are common...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, therefore, thus, while, as for, as to, for example, for instance, in summary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 14.8657303371 34% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2533.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 467.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42398286938 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64867537961 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90467915191 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 215.323595506 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498929336188 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 773.1 704.065955056 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 23.5664206335 60.3974514979 39% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 110.130434783 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3043478261 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.17391304348 5.21951772744 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.208410692278 0.243740707755 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.076710274513 0.0831039109588 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0889507929884 0.0758088955206 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120665148168 0.150359130593 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.041798479516 0.0667264976115 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 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.