In any situation, progress requires discussion among people who have contrasting points of view. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
The controversy of whether the collision of contrasting perspectives can lead to progress has established a long history in not only academic, but also politics and business. Some people argue that opposite views help to eliminate potential bias and thus promote progress, while others claim that it merely causes disturbance and hence retard development. This essay is going to argue that, to a large extent, discussion among people who have contrasting opinions is necessary for making progress. Because such discussions help the discovery of logical flaws, the avoidance of biasedness, and the representability of proposals.
Firstly, it is easier for people holding contrasting views to spot the flaws in the logic of theories and propositions. This is well-demonstrated by the development of war theories and international relations. Upon realists themselves, it seems plausible that nations, in order to pursue the sense of security, must expand their militaries, which triggers the arm competition. Paradoxically, arm competition, as the result of people feeling insecure, always becomes the origin of wars, and thus realists deduce that wars are inevitable. However, it is easy for liberals to spot the flaw of this derivation, which is lurking behind the assumption that nations always feel insecure as imagine others as rivals instead of camorades. The aforementioned dilemma is solvable via the establishment of international organisations, which proved to be a milestone of international relations. Therefore, as revealed by this example, many ostensible dilemma can be easily solved if people can think from different perspectives. Nevertheless, in particular situations, such paradoxes are not generated from logic flaws, but due to people having fundamentally opposite beliefs. With this respect, the privilege of discussions among competing views lies predominantly in the avoidance of biasedness, which leads to the next argument of this essay.
Secondly, being exposed under different perspectives helps to alleviate potential bias. Biasness is considered as ubiquitous when people trying to form statements and claims, and frequently its existence is hard to be aware of. Fortunately, this problem is be ameliorated by discussing with people holding contrasting views, so that a middle point (hopefully neutral but at least less bias) can be reached. A well-known example can be found when reviewing the development of modern statistical science. There are generally two opposite camps - Frequentist and Bayesian - concerning whether probabilities should be treated as objective or subjective. Both of those two perspectives contain some biased elements, in effect. Because the frequentist’s objectiveness requires the hypothetical infinitely many repeated sampling, while the Bayesian definition depends on capricious personal believes. Nevertheless, unremitting discussion and amendment forms the so called ‘modern mathematical statistics’, where statisticians are free to adopt either of those two views as tools depending on their specific needs, which dramatically
boosts the development of statistics as a discipline. Notwithstanding, there might be scenarios or stages when benigment discussion becomes inimical arguments, which considerably delays the pace of progress. This genuinely happened between frequentists and Bayesians during the 1980s, when, at extreme cases, Bayesian statisticians were persecuted persistently and even could not get any teaching positions. Nonetheless, that should only be considered as a developing odyssey, and history has shown that ultimate coherence could be realised, which leads to rudimental progress.
Finally, having the opportunity of weighing contrasting views also ensures that various population groups being represented, which is crucial when making decisions with practical influence, such as political policies and business strategies. The political structure in the Western world provides a good illustration of this. For instance, the Liberal and Republic parties represents the utilities of lower and middle class and higher class, respectively. Having both parties in the House and the Senate ensures that proposals benefiting one group at the cost of the other would be vetoed. Therefore, only in this way can the society progress as a whole. However, critics might have argued that the advantage of having multiple parties is overshadowed by the inefficiency it generates. Admittedly, there are circumstances when a single position is able to more efficiently allocate resources and achieving one certain goal immediately. Nevertheless, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the depression in North Korea both demonstrate that single perspective and principle is not sustainable. Thus, it seems plausible to argue that having discussions between multiple perspectives contributes to making long-term progress, even though at a little cost of efficiency.
To conclude, this essay has argued that discussions between people holding contracting perspectives contributes to making progress. Because these discussions make it easier for people to spot any flaws within their logic and to recognise the biases within their theories. Moreover, having competing views also ensures the representability within the process of decision making. Therefore, although there are certain circumstances, as have been discussed, when diversity in perspectives does not seem to contribute much or single view might even be preferred, it should be generally agreed that this diversity boosts progress.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, hence, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, well, while, as to, at least, for instance, in particular, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 37.0 19.5258426966 189% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 29.0 14.8657303371 195% => OK
Relative clauses : 32.0 11.3162921348 283% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 45.0 33.0505617978 136% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 96.0 58.6224719101 164% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 12.9106741573 186% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 4783.0 2235.4752809 214% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 811.0 442.535393258 183% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.89765721332 5.05705443957 117% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.33648402338 4.55969084622 117% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.31341388274 2.79657885939 118% => OK
Unique words: 414.0 215.323595506 192% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510480887793 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 1476.9 704.065955056 210% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 12.0 3.10617977528 386% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 37.0 20.2370786517 183% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.2769068016 60.3974514979 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.27027027 118.986275619 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9189189189 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.35135135135 5.21951772744 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.2758426966 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => 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: 0.216792964009 0.243740707755 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0509835325053 0.0831039109588 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0414018021939 0.0758088955206 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121784923802 0.150359130593 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0241960812872 0.0667264976115 36% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.3 14.1392134831 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 48.8420337079 68% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.94 12.1639044944 139% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.8 8.38706741573 117% => OK
difficult_words: 263.0 100.480337079 262% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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