Claim: Any piece of information referred to as a fact should be mistrusted, since it may well be proven false in the future.
Reason: Much of the information that people assume is factual actually turns out to be inaccurate.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
The statement raises a variety of issues about the reliability of facts. One school of thought postulates that facts should be mistrusted on the grounds that most of them turn out to be inaccurate. Another school of thought posits that facts are reliable since they are based on evidence. As far as I am concerned, I agree with the latter for the following reasons.
The first thing that springs to mind is that there is a considerable number of facts that hold true for many years. A case in point would be the fact that the earth is not flat. Another illustrative example would be facts about the birth rate of a community in a specific year. These kinds of facts are supported by scientific research and statistics from experiments and surveys. Thus, they strengthen the argument of embracing facts as true.
Another issue I would like to focus on is the appropriate attitute towards pieces of information referred to as facts. Common sense informs me that it is advisable to retain an inquisitive eye towards them rather than completely mistrust them. To illustrate this, let us consider a human that confronts a new piece of information. Before accepting it as a fact, he is responsible to examine the trustworthiness of the source of information as well as to seek for relevant evidence that bolsters it. Rejecting any idea that is referred to as a fact is naïve and impedes the process of exploring the world around us.
A compelling argument in favor of mistrusting facts would underscore various occassions in which views that were regarded as facts were proven to be inaccurate. However, few would disagree that such inaccuracies occur as part of the trial-and-error process followed in almost all sciences and human endeavours. It strikes me that human error should not be penalized because, otherwise, scientists’ fear to present any findings will hinder their research. It should also be mentioned that checking the validity of a fact promotes critical thinking and trains not only the scientists’ but also the common people’s brain.
In conclusion, pieces of information that are referred to as facts should not be completely neglected. On the contrary, citizens should be always ready to exercise their brain through looking for supporting evidence and evaluating the source of the information.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, so, then, thus, well, as to, in conclusion, as well as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 58.6224719101 90% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1956.0 2235.4752809 87% => OK
No of words: 384.0 442.535393258 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09375 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4267276788 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00397143812 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 215.323595506 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541666666667 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 597.6 704.065955056 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.2883362093 60.3974514979 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 97.8 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.4 5.21951772744 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.314900176377 0.243740707755 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0899581734551 0.0831039109588 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0851699839059 0.0758088955206 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172044399612 0.150359130593 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0386648081223 0.0667264976115 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 100.480337079 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => 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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.