In any field of inquiry, the beginner is more likely than the expert to make important contributions.
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.
People often say, curosity killed the cat. All humans are curious. They tend to delve deep into subjects that intrigue them. The prompt suggests that in any field of inquiry, a beginner has a higher chance of making important contributions than an expert. I mostly agree with the prompt for two reasons. I disagree with the prompt for one reason.
An amateur does not have a vast knowledge of the topic. When a beginner starts to learn about a new topic, he usually goes deep into all aspects of it. An expert already has the knowledge about the topic and he might forget a few things. When both of them come accross an issue, the beginner will tend to cover all aspects of it whereas an expert might try to tackle it based upon his field of expertise. As a person starts expertising in a field, he usually begins to start thinking about everything in the direction in which he does most of his work in.
For instance, a patient might be sufferring from anxiety and ADHD. A beginner will look into all the possible diseases taht the patient might have. However, an expert who only usually comes across anxiety, will not think much and only diagnose the patient with anxiety. Since it is different from what the expert usually sees, he might not be able to identify it easily. This example shows us that, a lot of times, an experts thinking might get limited which might hinder him from making important contributions. Whereas, an amateur will go into depths of the topic because of his lack of knowledge and possibly make an important contribution.
A beginner usually goes out of his way to work on issues. An expert often follows a certain procedure. Take for example, a recent kidnapping case in India. A crime enthusiast with no experience was able to help the police find the child before the expert did. The beginner posted out various pictures and information of the kidnapped child on social media and started search parties. The expert decided to follow a more private approach and started looking into the recent places the child had been before the incident. Due to beginners post, someone who had seen the child in a neighbors house, alerted the police and the child was safely taken back to his parents. The risk apetite of a begineer is often higher which allows him to make important contributions.
It is often said, you cannot learn everything until you actually try things out. As a person becomes an expert in a field, he starts working on things practically a lot. Instead of just gaining knowledge, he knows how to apply it. When people start working on things, they learn about information that is not mentioned in the books. There are also certain things that you only get to know once you actually start working hands on, on the issues. A beginner not having much experience, will not know of such things. This will prevent him from making important contributions. For instance, an expert working over the years with cancer patients is aware of the effect of medicines on them. However, a begineer most likely only has the theorotical knowledge of it. If a medicine shows some abberant behavior on the patients, the beginner might not recognize it. This shows us that in some scenarios, it is important to have expertise and hands on experience to make important contributions.
Hence, in some cases being an expert puts forth a greater chance of making an important contribution. This however, is not the case for most scenarios. Beginners having a larger risk apetite and the willingness to delve deep into topics, stand the chnace to make contributions important to the society.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, hence, however, if, look, so, thus, whereas, for example, for instance, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 88.0 58.6224719101 150% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2995.0 2235.4752809 134% => OK
No of words: 626.0 442.535393258 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.78434504792 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.00199880112 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55439901391 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 276.0 215.323595506 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.44089456869 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 924.3 704.065955056 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 6.24550561798 256% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 22.0 4.99550561798 440% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 39.0 20.2370786517 193% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.5256027756 60.3974514979 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 76.7948717949 118.986275619 65% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.0512820513 23.4991977007 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.71794871795 5.21951772744 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 16.0 4.83258426966 331% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.221691051768 0.243740707755 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0536070568723 0.0831039109588 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0490999173139 0.0758088955206 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122576588356 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0488691906683 0.0667264976115 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.1 14.1392134831 64% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 48.8420337079 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.1743820225 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.15 12.1639044944 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.36 8.38706741573 88% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 100.480337079 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 4.5 11.8971910112 38% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, hence, however, if, look, so, thus, whereas, for example, for instance, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 88.0 58.6224719101 150% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2995.0 2235.4752809 134% => OK
No of words: 626.0 442.535393258 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.78434504792 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.00199880112 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55439901391 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 276.0 215.323595506 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.44089456869 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 924.3 704.065955056 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 6.24550561798 256% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 22.0 4.99550561798 440% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 39.0 20.2370786517 193% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.5256027756 60.3974514979 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 76.7948717949 118.986275619 65% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.0512820513 23.4991977007 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.71794871795 5.21951772744 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 16.0 4.83258426966 331% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.221691051768 0.243740707755 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0536070568723 0.0831039109588 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0490999173139 0.0758088955206 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122576588356 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0488691906683 0.0667264976115 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.1 14.1392134831 64% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 48.8420337079 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.1743820225 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.15 12.1639044944 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.36 8.38706741573 88% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 100.480337079 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 4.5 11.8971910112 38% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.