“Scientific theories, which most people consider as ‘fact,’ almost invariably prove to be inaccurate. Thus, one should look upon any information described as ‘factual’ with skepticism since it may well be proven false in the future.”
Write an essay in which you take a position on the statement above. In developing and supporting your viewpoint, consider the ways in which the statement might or might not hold true.
Although many people readily believe in scientific theories, they are not always factual, which has been proven by the internet, history, and situations that fall under the Mandela Effect. Each of these categories help bring to life the notion that readers should take any information with a grain of salt.
From the start of writing, humans had been skeptical of the shape of the Earth. Many believed the Earth to be as flat a table. This “fact” has been disproven experiment after experiment, even as recently as of 2017 in a flat earthers documentary where the flat earthers ultimately disproved themselves with the use of cut out metal and lasers. In history, many had been hung for the fact of saying the world is round, only later to come to the scientific truth that the world is, indeed, round.
Similar to the skepticism of the Earth, many believe any article they read online. In the early 2000s, a “fact” spread across the web stating that during a lifetime, humans accidentally swallow seven spiders in their sleep. As many YouTube videos and more have proven, the amount of spiders one accidentally swallows is significantly greater due to the fact that spiders prefer warm, moist areas. This is just another “fact” disproven, which was originally created to test what readers would believe if they read it off of the internet.
Many times, people coherently believe facts which are later proven untrue. This is known as the Mandela Effect, after former African President Mandela was believed to be dead when, in actuality, he was not. Many figures have fallen into this category of believing someone is dead, including Steve, who was thought to have died from cancer when he is still very much alive, from the well known children’s show Blue’s Clues. The Mandela Effect is one of the strangest theories that get thousands of humans to believe something that is truly not factual.
While we have seen that scientific theories are not always correct, it should be stated that some have been proven. In 2019, NASA proved Einstein’s theory on the existence of black holes in our own universe. As one hears theories, they need to be careful and conduct the research. From the elemental table, researchers can see spaces left open for un-found elements. As of now, some of these elements have been found, proving the scientific theory of the table. While this is true, however, it took years of research to prove these theories.
In time, scientific theories can be proven true or be modified to fit the truth. Each theory should be looked into before officially stating the fact, especially with how easy it is for humans to believe what they read, such as with the spider experiment. Scientific Theories are theories after all waiting to be proven true. They should not be considered facts until proven similar to how humans are all innocent until proven guilty.
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- “Scientific theories, which most people consider as ‘fact,’ almost invariably prove to be inaccurate. Thus, one should look upon any information described as ‘factual’ with skepticism since it may well be proven false in the future.”Write an 79
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 313, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...earthers ultimately disproved themselves with the use of cut out metal and lasers...
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Line 9, column 105, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...e they read online. In the early 2000s, a 'fact' spread across the web ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, look, so, still, well, while, after all, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.5258426966 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 14.8657303371 34% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2466.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 488.0 442.535393258 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05327868852 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70007681154 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64673435284 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 256.0 215.323595506 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.524590163934 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 738.0 704.065955056 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.7757766611 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.75 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3333333333 23.4991977007 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.54166666667 5.21951772744 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.307735094401 0.243740707755 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0845283423586 0.0831039109588 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0610799240232 0.0758088955206 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156492733939 0.150359130593 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0431350197144 0.0667264976115 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 100.480337079 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 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.