Many important discoveries or creations are accidental: it is usually while seeking the answer
to one question that we come across the answer to another.
while discoveries in sciences and technology usually require assiduous effort, sometimes it takes serendipity to make important discoveries. I agree with the statement that many of the significant discoveries or creations are accidental. it is true that often scientists or inventors reach a goal or devise a product while searching for another. And such tendency is quite prevalent in human beings given the mechanisms of our mind, as psychology researches could attest to it.
many who entertain the opposite opinion would argue that important achievements are not possible without efforts. Undeniably, all scientists and creators who achieve greatness work persistently. More often than not, they will have to endure years of fruitless effort before a major breakthrough. nonetheless, one must note that stating many important discoveries are accidental does not negate the effort spent prior to the accidental discoveries, nor does it refute the fact that many other essential creations are made by clear goals.
The tendency to seek one and get another is quite evident in the human psyche. In the study of implicit learning, researchers sought show the effect of interconnectedness of problem solving. they presented a set of facts and problems to participants. after letting the participants ruminate on the given material, the researchers again presented them with a set of related, but distinct questions. Surprisingly, the subjects were able to solve these questions that were selected to be moderately challenging: that is, the thinking process involved in the prior set of questions inspired the subjects to perform well on subsequent problem-solving efforts. The human mind is an intricate and interconnected system. An activation in one part of it could lead to a concatenation of activation across the cerebral cortex. This chain reaction is frequently responsible for spouts of inspirations for answering different problems and can be triggered by solving one problem alone. Hence, brain science has shown the psychological basis of "accidental discoveries".
In the field of science, the epitome of accidental discoveries is numerous. For one, the indigo dye that is now commonly used around the world was developed as a byproduct of a chemical bleach. The original purpose of the experiments was to develop a newer type of bleach that would be efficacious on different kinds of fabrics. trial after trial, the scientists failed to identify a panacea bleach for different materials but instead found that a specific combination of chemicals would dye the fabrics into a purple-ish blue color that is hard to wash away. Ironically, the intended goal is quite the contrary to what was achieved. while looking for an effective bleach, the scientists found a dye instead. nonetheless, these researchers realized the value of their lucky discovery and promoted the usage of the dye. Although they failed to achieve their intended goal, these scientists instead discovered one of the most commonly used dye in the contemporary world.
In sum, in the creative endeavor discoveries are hard to come around. some require relentless effort and a patient hard; some require the right timing and a tint of luck. Despite that many discoveries are indeed the product of long lasting research and perspiration, some important ones are the result of chances. such occurences are justified by the working of the human mind: when we consciously seek solutions to one thing, the activated brain could lead us to conclusions of another.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 74.0 58.6224719101 126% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3052.0 2235.4752809 137% => OK
No of words: 557.0 442.535393258 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47935368043 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85807034144 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.12963933512 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 300.0 215.323595506 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538599640934 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 929.7 704.065955056 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 13.0 4.99550561798 260% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 50.8047953395 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.24137931 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2068965517 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.37931034483 5.21951772744 46% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 13.0 7.80617977528 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.257360445344 0.243740707755 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0546439516701 0.0831039109588 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0596659271356 0.0758088955206 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135675549486 0.150359130593 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0602949960978 0.0667264976115 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.1392134831 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.5 12.1639044944 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 155.0 100.480337079 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 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.